I achieved a low-level experiment, namely not accidentally resetting one of my two bicycle handlebar-mounted basic eTrex's for a little more than a year, to see what it did after 9999 miles when it got there.
Answer: 9999 rolls over to ---- (four dashes)
not even 0000
apparently there are 4 display places programmed and that's that.
This is the original (now at J&R) $94 AA-battery yellow eTrex.
There's no much to occupy you on a bicycle. -- Ron Hardin rhhardin@mindspring.com
I achieved a low-level experiment, namely not accidentally resetting> one of my two bicycle handlebar-mounted basic eTrex's for a little more> than a year, to see what it did after 9999 miles when it got there.>
Answer: 9999 rolls over to ---- (four dashes)>
not even 0000
My Garmin eMap odometer had gotten over 50000 miles before I reset it to do some experiment with the firmware. Don't know if it would allow numbers above 99999 or not.
