Thread: Garmin rino 650 $399

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Cant even buy them for us at that pricet (I doubt the wholesaler can either)

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Just bought three for a trip next week.Any body have any experience on battery life ?

Mmmmmmmm does her indoors read this

Originally Posted by BobGibson

Mmmmmmmm does her indoors read this

Gibo senior ??

Battery life is bloody good if you set the Rino up right and be sensible on the radio use.

I have set mine for 50% back light and screen shuts down after 15secs of inactivity.

Can easily get several days on one charge just like this.

The other thing I have done is bought the car charger, a female adapter and a small 12v 7amp/hr spot battery for overnight charges.

Plug the Rino to the battery via the car charger and in less than an hour your fully charged again.

I've recharged four units over three days like this and never run the battery short yet.

For longer trips a solar panel to recharge the spot light battery during the day is the way to go.

Cheers
Pete

I have the car charger n spare battery pack. Never needed to use it yet.

All the above are spot on. Dont forget to switch it to marine mode. Then the contours on your maps will show up. Oh yeah and ebay is the place to get your road maps for it

Originally Posted by Dead is better

All the above are spot on. Dont forget to switch it to marine mode. Then the contours on your maps will show up. Oh yeah and ebay is the place to get your road maps for it

Marine mode please someone explain ?

Originally Posted by Munsey

Marine mode please someone explain ?

You can scroll the modes under settings - you can chose to have it on a tramping, driving etc but the only one i could find that brought the contour lines up was the marine mode. I'm still learning how to mark waypoints and then check distances between them. I reckon that would be a useful trick eh

Yeah thats got me flucked too mate. @Dead is better

Mine works fine with the topo map card i bought. I think marine is a profile choice under setup? Haven't opened that one so can't say what it does

I cant see how opening up marine mode is going to help show details on a topo land map.

Ty.. Just scored one

They have had the deal going since before Christmas. .. must be getting them dirt cheap from somewhere or else happy to loose mney...

Got to be parallel imported because nobody else coms close in price