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SPOT battery life
In article , Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:44:30 -0500, "Roger Long" wrote: I'm pretty impressed with the SPOT beacon battery life. It's still running on the first set of two AA Lithium's I put in when I bought it back in May. This includes: All the testing and playing after purchase. Running it for nearly every daysail, 4 - 6 a week. This was great because I was often alone and people didn't have to bug me on the cell phone to find out if I was headed in for dinner. 8 - 12 hours a day on our 9 day cruise downeast. 10 - 14 hours a day on the recent 8 day Rachel Carson delivery. I'm wondering just how much life is left after a summer of fairly heavy use so I've set up a new page and started it running on the window sill. You can watch it die he http://share.findmespot.com/shared/g...eYWUa0SLl40PnT This is starting at 3:30 on election day. It may be a little while before fixes show up. That sounds like pretty good battery life, especially considering that it is transmitting as well as receiving. Does the SPOT device also double as a useful GPS, and is it waterproof enough to take on a dinghy, leave on the flybridge, etc. ? Hey, anyone want one of those 'Spot' devices? I know where there's one just sat on a guy's window ledge... Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. |
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