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07-25-2002
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 12
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My Ipaq stumbling setup
I find this setup a lot easier to carry around than the big laptop and power inverter.
hardware is: Ipaq 3835 Old dual-PCCard sleeve Orinoco Silver card in inner slot Toshiba 2Gb PCcad hard drive in outer slot Belkin USB+Serial hotsync cable Belkin Car power adapter (actually from another belkin hotsync cable, but it works really well with this one) slimline male-male gender changer null-modem adapter slimline male-male gender changer Magellan PC interface cable Magellan Sportrak Map GPS receiver Using the power adapter while running the GPS over the hotsync cable works great! I think my next purchase will be the Magellan PC-interface cable with the car power adapter built in, so I don't have to worry about the batteries in the Sportrak. (I'm getting about 15hours of runtime out of 2 AAs anyways) I'll bet this setup would work with the Delorme tripmate receiver, but I like having the scrolling map display on the Sportrak, and I can download the track to my laptop at home to see what streets I've covered! |
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07-25-2002
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Do I look like I'm joking
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: SoCal, OC
Posts: 4,507
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Re: My Ipaq stumbling setup
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 People think I am holding up some type of tricorder.
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07-25-2002
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Did you do the math?
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Villa Straylight
Posts: 10,008
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Re: Re: My Ipaq stumbling setup
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Kirk: Spock, analyze! Spock: It appears that the unwise human has left his AP open, Captain. McCoy: Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not an WiFi technician!  BTW, nice setup. I'm jealous.
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07-25-2002
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 12
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Blackwave: I haven't tried warwalking with this setup, but I'd bet it'd be really easy... I like driving more anyways, I find the APs faster! 8)
Today I'm trying to come up with a way to support the Ipaq against the passenger seat, and keep it high enough that the antenna clears the door and frame. I'll post another picture when I figure something out. (also show off the cool GPS mount I made!) |
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07-25-2002
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Do I look like I'm joking
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: SoCal, OC
Posts: 4,507
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 I need to see about getting a custom cable though.. all these adapters make the set up bulky, I have mine veclro'd and it is the size of the gps.
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08-24-2002
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Stumbled and cant get up!
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 25
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Did anyone ever find a better cable setup? Or a custom cable setup?
I have a magellan 315 that I am looking to connect to my iPAQ as well, and was about to go out and buy the things I am missing: Any iPAQ type Serial hotsync cable slimline male-male gender changer null-modem adapter slimline male-male gender changer Anyway... before I do I thought I would see if anyone ever came up with a better solution to this rather bulky setup. Thanks, RasnCain |
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08-24-2002
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Did you do the math?
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Villa Straylight
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Why don't you just solder the two cables together and get rid of that gender changer/null modem mess? Probably cheaper too: $10 soldering iron, $2 solder, $5 heatshrink.
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08-24-2002
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Posts: 108
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Would it be possible to do that with my e-125 serial cable and my gps cable?
The only downside I can think of would be that both the serial cable and the GPS cable would be proprietary to each other...permanently. |
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08-24-2002
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Did you do the math?
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Villa Straylight
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That is the downside though. You have to weigh it against the possibility of using the cables for some other purose in the future.
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08-24-2002
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"Sinner"
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Montreal, Quebec
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I suppose I'll just use ties to keep everything neat and keep as much cabling as possible in my clothing. |
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08-24-2002
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"Sinner"
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Montreal, Quebec
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Re: Oh so simple :)
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Also, yours looks like you can disconnect it...is that how you made it? So you can disconnect just the end?? Last edited by SaintJC : 08-24-2002 at 02:07 PM. |
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08-24-2002
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 15
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Re: Re: Oh so simple :)
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08-24-2002
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Do I look like I'm joking
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: SoCal, OC
Posts: 4,507
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I would love to see the following:
A 3975 iPAQ cable that connects to a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS AND has a power cable for BOTH the iPAQ and the GPS WITHOUT having a ton of adapters... currently this can be achieved with a few of the shelf devices.. but it has to be carried around in a backpack ... and that mess is mostly cables and adapters... 
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