Very powerful unit

By Peter Burke Ranked #134 - Trail Running Accessories January 16, 2009

Been using this bad boy for over 18 months now. I have it on my motorcycles when searching the limit on gravel and in the mountains it keeps me on the proper route, too. Hardwired on the moorcycle or in the car, it runs extremely accurately with fast updates. On the trail I had to switch to power saver mode, because it does eat the AA's up otherwise. Still, even in power-saver mode, you can maybe get 18 hours out of a pair of batteries. I carried a large Brunton solar charger, but we never spent enough time sitting around in the sun to keep up with recharging AAs for this thing. Bring enough batteries if you're going to be in the backcountry for a long time. I have no idea if other units are better at power consumption, but I am willing to deal with that given the accuracy of the unit. Never had trouble acquiring satellites even in the deepest gorge or thickest woods. Garmin software is great and there's even a 24k top map set for all of California and Nevada you can use in this device. It is fully waterpoof (1800 miles in the rain on my KTM950 at 70mph+ without a problem are my real world testing results).

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