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Nigaramus
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:18 pm    Post subject: Can anyone help, please? Reply with quote

Took delivery of Haicom 204s receiver (sirf 2 Chipset) about a week ago.
It has been working OK until getting in the car this evening, until I noticed no red diode on the receiver. TomTom3 is telling me that GPS is unreliable. The power is coming from the cigarettee lighter, which is showing that it is giving power to the PDA. I have checked all connections. Anyone any ideas?

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HandyMac
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Might be worth giving it a little time (a couple of days) before assuming there's a problem.

When I first got my GPS system it worked out of the box. Then next day regardless of what I tried it didn't work at all. Gave up for a couple of days and tried again - it was working again.

I think the technology might still be at the iffy stage. Haven't got enough experience yet to know.

Andrew
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Dave
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Follow this article on how to diagnose but you may find you will need to uninstall TomTom ~ GPS first
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/winfastnavigatorppc.php

You've probably by accident changed the configuration in TomTom and this will result in physically resetting the GPS to another baud rate.

Use WinFast Navigator, see if you can connect, if you can go into COMMAND and on the NMEA tab select 4800 and hit OK, then goto development screen and see if data comes through.

Failing that the GPS may be faulty.
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Nigaramus
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the advice Dave and Handy Mac. It now works.
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