Tuesday, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:12
Yeah Rochaie, yours sounds munted! :-) Get another, they are really good.
The clock works fine on
mine, never changed the batteries on it and it keep in sycn with the GPS.
I cut the end off
mine and wired it through a switch to the batteries. I can flick the switch and it switches between bat A. and bat B. Normally I leaveit on Bat B. though as the volt meter on the dash of the surf shows a rough idea of bat A.
Mine only beeps when under 11.5V but if you don't have it connected directly to the battery, ie you have other things running of the same cable you'll find that voltage drop will trigger the alarm prematually. ie if you transmit on your HF it may drop the voltage and trigger the alarm, or if you fridge cuts in etc etc etc.
The 8888888 on the display happens on
mine also, but only when it's a 35c plus day and the cars been sitting in the sun, seems to be when the ambiant temp get's over 60c or so. Once the air con's been running for 10 minutes or so it comes back good. I have the outside temp sensor siliconed to the underneath of the air ram on the
snorkel. Nice and shaded from the sun, plenty of fresh air and away from the engine heat for an accurate temp. I find the inside temp is pretty inaccurate though because its mounted just above my stereo and the stereo get's hot while playing MP3s and seems to through it out a bit.
My backlight is always on when the unit is on.ie If I'm monitoring aux bat it's on, if I'm monitoring Bat A it's on when the keys are in.
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