AP60 cruise control

Thanks sandman, very impressed with your touchscreen. I assume its seperate screen for a computer stashed somewhere else?? And how did you get those lights to flash?
regards GToz

Yes mate,

Stow the 'puter under the seat when I'm "Treknoting".

The touchscreen is really only useful for moving map display in OziExplorer though.
Still too small to do anything functional, such as accurately inputting waypoints.
Still pull the Laptop out for that.

The flashing lights?
A little touch up with PhotoImpression and creation with GIF Animator.

Thanks Flash, that makes sense. Its worth giving it a go as is on special super cheep this week.
regards
GToz

Yes but it will drop out a bit over 70km/h
Mac

doesnt matter if it drops out over thirty. Just need the low end.

Gee Flash, I reckon you would have fun if they weren't equidistant around the tailshaft. My GU has a hand throttle as have other 4.2 variants.

Trial and error I guess. !0 to 20 km/h would be fine probably as mostly I need 16 km/hr

Thanks Gtoz

good question, I use my hilux to spray crops, so need a constant speed between 8kh/m to about 20 km/h depending on terrain and obstacles. Its incredably hard to stick to one speed even using a tacho as I tend to "creep "faster and faster especially concentrating on not overlapping.
Would prefer to be looking for diamonds actually!

cheers

Groups equipped with tents and gear drove or flew from Riyadh and camped along the beaches from Jeddah to Yanbu. There were daybreak expeditions to the desert to search for a high-quality quartz called quasuma diamonds. Scattered on the desert, they were best spotted at sunrise, when the slanted rays of the sun reflect off the surface. Al though some people had theirs cut into stones in Bangkok, it was the thrill of the search rather than the reward that hauled people starved for recreation out of their beds while it was still dark.

You little devil you :) I never thought to search them :) But I know where there may be some good ones! (we’ll have to go in quietly from Iraq though) I think my ex wife has all the ones I found.

At one time I lived rather to the north and west of Riyadh and used to search for them at sunset - I would put the pick-up in low range and run to a point about 100m away from it at right angles, then I would walk on an angle to intercept it in a kilometer or so - forming a triangle - if I was a bit slow I would have to sprint to catch up with the vehicle - best not to loose it in those conditions :) You could only find them when the sun was low in the sky but they would stand out like fire when you caught them in the suns rays.

Different times - different places - life changes :)

Mike Harding

You could have used a turbo timer??

Are they exclusive to Saudi or in Emirates as well. My sister lives there and we visited her a few years ago and did a few trips to the desert. Apparently in last two years the desert is being fenced off and it is getting harder to get into. Would have loved to get to the empty quarter but time got away. Hard to beat our Oz deserts however. Even our camels are better,...... and wilder.

as you said - life changes

regards
Gtoz