Garmin GPS

[walleyewiz0212]

Just got the lakemaster chip for my garmin nuvi 1350. I was just wondering if anyone one has one of these units and how well it works. My main concern is that will the gps touch screen work well in the cold weather?

[Ed Carlson]

Does it work in your car when cold? Then it will work on the ice too.

I try not to leave my GPS units out in the vehicles unattended overnight in the cold, just not good for anything techie really.

But I use my Nuvi 500 out in the cold rain and slop all the time with lake maps, and then it's back in my pocket to keep warm when not required.

As with all electronics, some are more cold/wet frindly than others, so know your specs for your unit. Yours is not a waterproof unit, so keep that in mind.

Other than that, it will serve ou well with the lake maps where needed.

[MN Mike]

Goose,

You've got a pretty fun GPS there, you can tweak that unit in many ways and I suggest reading the owners manual because of this.

Ed makes a couple good points, especially on keeping it warm when not in use, your's has AT BEST a 4 hour battery life, if you have the backlight turned up and use it constantly when it is not plugged into a 12v power source, that GPS will be dead in 1 hour or less, thats a pretty good sized screen on that GPS if I'm not mistaken and they take some power with the backlight turned up which normally you have to do in the outdoors.

I rigged up a spare 12v flasher ( Marcum / Vex ) battery to power my NUVI when I am on my snowmobile and it went 2 days on that and never died.

There are different MODE settings on your Nuvi, if you can activate a OFF ROAD mode that should work the best for navigating to a waypoint or as Garmin calls it, FAVORITES on the Nuvi's. If you have waypoints on another GPS you can transfer those to the Nuvi, Garmin also has Photo Navigation on this unit which means if you marked a waypoint and have a picture of a big Walleye or Pike or maybe even a bunch of Pan fish, you can tie that picture to the waypoint and get back to it by simply calling up that picture again someday down the road, I think that is pretty neat.

If you like to have a track drawn of where you have been, by default Garmin turns this feature off on these Nuvi's but you can turn it on in the Trip Log area.

You can also have mulitple maps loaded in the Nuvi, there should be an area in the MAP DATA section where you can put a checkmark in the map you want to use and turn the others off. There is also a Map Detail area so you can tell the Nuvi how much detail you want to your maps too.

Like I said, reading the owners manual is a good thing with these devices.

Your Nuvi can do many more things than what I have described too.

Have fun with it!

Mike