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m623d
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 Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: tomtom rds tmc £17.99! |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0019JDDB4
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m623d
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too late now, back upto £29.99 
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they are only around 11 or 12 euros if you check the net and are willing to pay postage, check out other gps sites, french speaking and german speaking one's in particular
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Darren
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Save your money and don't bother, it's poor at best, worthless at worst.
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| Darren wrote: | | Save your money and don't bother, it's poor at best, worthless at worst. |
is it just that type or all of them ...as i can't see how any motorist could use them as it always in my charger
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Darren
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| andy-c1 wrote: | | Darren wrote: | | Save your money and don't bother, it's poor at best, worthless at worst. |
is it just that type or all of them ...as i can't see how any motorist could use them as it always in my charger |
The RDS-TMC data is very poor. TomTom's actual receiver is no worse than others I have tested i.e. rubbish!
Not sure what you mean by "as i can't see how any motorist could use them as it always in my charger"?
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Stuck on the M4 yesterday evening eastbound about 5 miles short of J8/9. So bad I had to come off at the next junction and work my way across country since it was queued all the way to J5. According to the TMC (via GPRS - i.e. different delivery but same data) the jam was 8 miles ahead of me and only 7 minutes.
In other words, the usual inaccurate rubbish.
However my Trafficmaster Freeway got it spot on albeit I was past J10 before it warned me.
Enough said about the accuracy of TMC |
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andy-c1
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| Darren wrote: |
Not sure what you mean by "as i can't see how any motorist could use them as it always in my charger"? |
sorry reread my post and it don't make sense ..... what I meant to say was the connector in the receiver looks the same as the charging connector ,so how does 1 use them together if you are charging your device
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Darren
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| andy-c1 wrote: | | sorry reread my post and it don't make sense ..... what I meant to say was the connector in the receiver looks the same as the charging connector ,so how does 1 use them together if you are charging your device |
Ah I see! The mini-USB TMC receiver has a mini-USB port on it's body into which you plug your charger. Then you plug the TMC receiver's lead into the GO.
Bit of a cabling mess though!
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andy-c1
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ok ta I see now  so it wouldn't work very well with my brodit
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| Now Back down to £17.99 see here. |
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Darren
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| andy-c1 wrote: | | ok ta I see now so it wouldn't work very well with my brodit |
But it works superbly with Carcomm's cradle as they have an additional mini-USB socket 'dongle' which is powered so you plug the antenna into that and forgo the power connection otherwise required. Makes for a very tidy install.
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| Does anyone know if this unit will work on a TomTom One XL (not the 30 series)? From what I see this is the newer 2008 version they are selling. |
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m623d
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Well I've just used mine on a 520, and I get reception 100% of the time upto now, far better than my previous Tomtom TMC.
And the info in the last couple of days was spot on too, although I didn't reroute because I wanted to see if the info was good enough, now I know I shall follow its instructions.... well happy
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| aris1234 wrote: | | Does anyone know if this unit will work on a TomTom One XL (not the 30 series)? From what I see this is the newer 2008 version they are selling. |
It will work on the XL if it's running v8+ navcore, not v7. |
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