Garmin GPS - Nuvi 350 ?

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Nuvi 350 ?

Rick Price

2007-07-29, 4:33 am

Can someone tell me how long does the Nuvi 350 battery last with a full
charge?
Does it have crossover capability?

Boomer

2007-07-29, 7:33 am

I believe it might last over 3 hours but I haven't pushed mine to the limit
yet.
What is "crossover capability"?

"Rick Price" <jayg359@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me how long does the Nuvi 350 battery last with a full
> charge?
> Does it have crossover capability?

Bruce.

2007-07-29, 10:33 am

"Rick Price" <jayg359@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Can someone tell me how long does the Nuvi 350 battery last with a full
> charge?

The Garmin specs say "up to 8 hours". But it varies greatly depending on
whether you keep the backlight on and how bright.

Bruce.

Joel

2007-07-29, 10:33 am

Rick Price <jayg359@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone tell me how long does the Nuvi 350 battery last with a full
> charge?
> Does it have crossover capability?

If my memory still serve me well, then I read older Nuvi should last for
7-8 hours, and newer may last 6-7 hrs (or 5-6 hrs?) depending on how you
setup and use the GPS.

Fred McKenzie

2007-07-29, 12:33 pm

In article <WjWqi.418393$mZ7.298304@fe01.news.easynews.com>,
Rick Price <jayg359@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does it have crossover capability?

Rick-

If you mean the ability to continue working when changing to a different
power source, the answer is maybe!

If it is off and external power is applied, it will turn on. If it is
operating from the internal battery, and external power is applied, it
will stay on.

You can manually turn it off with either external power or battery.

When operating from external power and the external power is turned off,
the Nuvi 350 senses the loss and asks if you want to continue on battery
power. If you don't reply within a set time, it turns itself off.

Fred

DougSlug

2007-07-29, 12:33 pm

"Bruce." <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> "Rick Price" <jayg359@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:WjWqi.418393$mZ7.298304@fe01.news.easynews.com...
>
> The Garmin specs say "up to 8 hours". But it varies greatly depending on
> whether you keep the backlight on and how bright.
>
> Bruce.

The backlight is probably the biggest contributor...keeping it as dim as
possible (considering the operating conditions) and using the shortest
acceptable backlight timeout interval will go a long way in increasing
battery run time. Other things that reduce run time are using the MP3
player or other non-essential "Travel Kit" features or doing lots of
database searching.

It may even depend on what vehicle mode you're using--for instance, the
internal update rates may decrease (or may be adjusted automatically based
on your average speed) in pedestrian or bicycle mode in order to save power,
especially since the assumption is that you don't have the option of
external power as a pedestrian. Because your average speed is lower, the
coordinates do not have to be updated as frequently to maintain an accurate
course. The less computing required, the longer the battery will last,
because modern-day embedded microcontrollers generally utilize sophisticated
power management techniques for better battery life which include going into
a very low power consumption mode ("sleep" mode) between processing cycles.
It all adds up.

It would be interesting to see what operating conditions Garmin specifies in
order to get the full 8-hour run time. I suspect that they would require a
15-second backlight timeout in pedestrian mode with no other features being
used as the test conditions for the full 8 hours.

Anybody have full run time data to share?

- Doug

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