Transferring from Pocket CoPilot 4 to TomTom Navigator 3

[jasuk70]

After a disastrous attempt at navigating in London last weekend, I finally had enough to PCP4. I have now ordered TomTom Nav 3 from their online shop and am wondering if anyone else has the Pocket PCP jacket working with the TomTom 3 software. (It’s the one with the aerial point out backwards and onboard battery plus external aerial connection, not the original jacket.)

Also are there people here who have moved over to TTN 3 with any advice on using the new software compared to the old?

BTW The main reason for moving is the lack of help or interest from the people I bought the upgrades from (Team Warrior) and it also looks like there isn't going to be proper traffic integration with PCP in the UK for a while.

Jas
p.s. How long does TomTom usually take to ship to the UK?

[lbendlin]

The jacket is exposing a standard COM port (COM4) so it is easy to use with TomTom (v2 or v3). I have to disappoint you though - the jacket does not have it's own battery... But the chipset on the GPS is low power, so it doesn't drain the PocketPC battery that much. (Anyhow it is always a good idea to have an extra battery pack handy, or an external power pack, or a solar battery)
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[jasuk70]

Cheers for that.

The info I got from the Team Warrior email was the following:

Faster and better GPS reception (up to 8 times quicker than the NAVMAN jacket)
A vent mounting provides a secure fitting to the dashboard with a clear, safer view of the road ahead
A single integrated power socket means you can get rid of the power connector
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An internal battery helps remember your current location, even when your iPAQ is switched off, for faster GPS reception
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An optional external antenna gives an even better reception in the car and solves the problem of GPS reception through heat-reflecting windscreens

The bit betweem the **** was what I was on about. But I've been wondering why it nerver made any difference in aquaisition time.

Jas

[lbendlin]

Ah, that - that's merely a (small) buffer battery for the GPS receiver itself that holds the almanac and ephemeris data for a while. This little battery is not connecting back to the iPAQ and doesn't contribute to the overall energy balance.

Acquisition should be in the sub-40 seconds range once you had a fix at roughly the same position. The antenna shoud ideally face skywards with no obstructions. If you use it inside a car you may have problems with tinted windshields - make a test of acquiring a fix inside the car and outside and compare the number of sats and the strength.

You can use Crux_View to manipulate the settings of the jacket. Trickle mode, EGNOS, etc.
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