+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? What kind of Eneloop batteries are you using? Should be clear what to choose, are the precharged or not. In any case I just use NiMH. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? What kind of Eneloop batteries are you using? Should be clear what to choose, are the precharged or not. In any case I just use NiMH. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I'm using the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I'm using the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. Yes, you wrote that in your OP. What kind? It's on the batteries. Could be NiCad, NiMH. I suspect it's just NiMH and then you should select that. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I'm using the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. Yes, you wrote that in your OP. What kind? It's on the batteries. Could be NiCad, NiMH. I suspect it's just NiMH and then you should select that. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 NiMH. Quote Link to comment
+BlackRose67 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? Eneloops are pre-charged, LSD (low self discharge) NiMh batteries. Select Pre-charged in the options. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? Eneloops are pre-charged, LSD (low self discharge) NiMh batteries. Select Pre-charged in the options. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I have precharged selected right now and when I look at my satellite information and how close the GPS shows the settings are tighter with the precharged setting than the NiMH setting. Thanks for the information. Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I have precharged selected right now and when I look at my satellite information and how close the GPS shows the settings are tighter with the precharged setting than the NiMH setting. I have no idea what you mean by this. Battery settings have no effect on the behavior of your GPS but only on the way the battery status is displayed and probably makes power management a bit more efficient. Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I've found that the pre-charged meter isn't very accurate for pre-charged batteries. It shows the battery draining faster than it actually does. The regular NiMH (which are pre-charged) setting is more reliable. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I have precharged selected right now and when I look at my satellite information and how close the GPS shows the settings are tighter with the precharged setting than the NiMH setting. I have no idea what you mean by this. Battery settings have no effect on the behavior of your GPS but only on the way the battery status is displayed and probably makes power management a bit more efficient. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 when I change the settings for the battery the GPS setting under the satellite changes. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 I've found that the pre-charged meter isn't very accurate for pre-charged batteries. It shows the battery draining faster than it actually does. The regular NiMH (which are pre-charged) setting is more reliable. Quote Link to comment
+Hansons in Texas Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 That is what I find confusing. I would thing one would be the NiMH rechargeable and then the NiMH as I think it is on the Oregon 450. Quote Link to comment
+on4bam Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 when I change the settings for the battery the GPS setting under the satellite changes. There should be no change to anything concerning satellites. BTW, you know you can just reply under a quote, do you. No need to reply in two messages each time. Quote Link to comment
+BlackRose67 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I've found that the pre-charged meter isn't very accurate for pre-charged batteries. It shows the battery draining faster than it actually does. The regular NiMH (which are pre-charged) setting is more reliable. I'm going to try that setting. After 9 hours of use (with 30 second timeout and battery saver enabled) I was down to 1 bar on Saturday with a pair of fresh Eneloop XX 2500 mAh batteries. Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 I've found that the pre-charged meter isn't very accurate for pre-charged batteries. It shows the battery draining faster than it actually does. The regular NiMH (which are pre-charged) setting is more reliable. I'm going to try that setting. After 9 hours of use (with 30 second timeout and battery saver enabled) I was down to 1 bar on Saturday with a pair of fresh Eneloop XX 2500 mAh batteries. That's pretty good. I get about 8-9 hours of use on a pair of the regular 2000 mAh eneloops when I'm hiking and not playing with it heavily. When I'm geocaching, my run time can be much less, but again it depends on how I'm playing. When hiking, I try to be conservative with the batteries. When geocaching, I'll play with it more because I keep a spare set or two with me and I'm only out for the day. Typically, I get about 4 hours of use on 4-bars, then it drops to 3 bars for about 2 hours, then to two bars and one bar for approximately an hour each. This is on the NiMH setting. This is a good indication of how much time I have left. When I had it set on pre-charged, it would drop much faster. Quote Link to comment
+BlackRose67 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Just wanted to post an update. This past weekend (Friday - Sunday) I was either on my to, at, or on my way back from a Mega event. I set the battery type in my Oregon 600 to NiMh instead of Precharged NiMh, even though I was using Precharged LSD Eneloop XX batteries. Battery saver was enabled and disabled at various times during each day, depending on the activity being worked on. Each day I put a fresh set of batteries in the 600 and each day finished with the battery meter showing one bar after 12 to 14 hours caching each day. Quote Link to comment
erdos Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? i'm confused by this thread regarding the Eneloop rechargeables. can montata charge the installed eneloop batteries? Quote Link to comment
+geodarts Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I cannot find any information on how to set my battery under Settings in my Garmin Oregon 600. For the NiMH there are two choices. NiMH and Precharged NiMH. I have the Eneloop rechargeable batteries. I can't find any information on this at Garmin. Which settings should I be using? i'm confused by this thread regarding the Eneloop rechargeables. can montata charge the installed eneloop batteries? The Montana charges only the lithium battery pack, and not the AA batteries. Quote Link to comment
39_Steps Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 In my experience, new factory pre-charged Eneloop cells fresh out of the package tend to have less than a full charge. Perhaps the device pre-charged NiMH setting is to be used only once when the cells are new. Quote Link to comment
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