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J Smith



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Postheat and speedometer questions  Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:19 pm    Reply to topic Reply with quote

1. How worried should I be about heat exposure on a windshield mounted gps ?
2. Which speed is more accurate, vehicle speedometer or gps ?
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Post  Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:21 am    Reply to topic Reply with quote

1) It is cause for some concern in really hot areas. Some mounts, many of them Garmin mounts, have been known to "melt" onto the windshield and become almost impossible to remove. That is rare though. There are also safe temperature ranges for 'storage' that are shown in the user manual. I haven't heard of any specific incidents of a device malfunctioning from heat when left in a vehicle, but it is possible.

2) In most cases I would say the GPS. However I've had six GPS devices on the dash, all displaying current speed, and they did range in what they displayed while the speedometer was steady. Some consistently read high, others consistently read low. But in general the six GPS devices were more in agreement with the current speed than what the speedometer showed.
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Post  Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:23 am    Reply to topic Reply with quote

There was another thread that talked about this a little bit over here.
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