chris199
12-28-2012, 04:37 PM
Found it under the tree this year! Used it for a trip from Chattanooga to Nashville to the Philly burbs. I found it fairly easy to setup but you need to remember where the setup options are. There are a lot of features! Love it so far!
Set it up for my rig's length, height, weight, max amt of propane, etc. Setup custom Points of Interest from the RM website......cracker barrels, flying j's/pilot stops, diners driveins and dive locations. Also updated construction locations and received warnings. BTW.....you can configure how much notice you want on construction, speed limit changes, etc. Warns of steep grades up and down and sharp curves. All of these features works well. Has a speed warning option. I set it for 6 mph over speed limit and kind of like the warning. I don't need to speed more than 6 mph over the limit.
Display is large...not too big. No glare issues at all. Has option to switch to night display...works well. Night display is excellent.
I love the Points of Interest button on the display. Gives you what's coming up and you can filter based on food, fuel, etc. Excellent!
I used the hotspot option of my smartphone to keep the gps on the Internet and used the weather option. Tells you weather forecast for where you are and option to also see for your destination.
Im tempted to get the Traffic System radio for it but Im skeptical it will work well outside of metro areas.
One last test to complete.....approach a low clearance bridge and see what happens....
You can also tell it you are travelling w/out the RV and the RV features are shut down. Works like a normal gps at that point. I just leave it in RV MODE 100% of the time.
Oh....and a really nice feature....ranks high in the cool feature category....there is a dashboard display option....tells you a ton of info on one screen. Speed, sunrise, sunset times, distance to next manuever, % complete or current leg of trip, miles to go to complete leg, weather, arrival time, total hrs of trip, hrs driving, hours stopped, avg speed, avg moving speed, max speed, avg uphill speed, avg downhill speed, elevation. Love that display!
Set it up for my rig's length, height, weight, max amt of propane, etc. Setup custom Points of Interest from the RM website......cracker barrels, flying j's/pilot stops, diners driveins and dive locations. Also updated construction locations and received warnings. BTW.....you can configure how much notice you want on construction, speed limit changes, etc. Warns of steep grades up and down and sharp curves. All of these features works well. Has a speed warning option. I set it for 6 mph over speed limit and kind of like the warning. I don't need to speed more than 6 mph over the limit.
Display is large...not too big. No glare issues at all. Has option to switch to night display...works well. Night display is excellent.
I love the Points of Interest button on the display. Gives you what's coming up and you can filter based on food, fuel, etc. Excellent!
I used the hotspot option of my smartphone to keep the gps on the Internet and used the weather option. Tells you weather forecast for where you are and option to also see for your destination.
Im tempted to get the Traffic System radio for it but Im skeptical it will work well outside of metro areas.
One last test to complete.....approach a low clearance bridge and see what happens....
You can also tell it you are travelling w/out the RV and the RV features are shut down. Works like a normal gps at that point. I just leave it in RV MODE 100% of the time.
Oh....and a really nice feature....ranks high in the cool feature category....there is a dashboard display option....tells you a ton of info on one screen. Speed, sunrise, sunset times, distance to next manuever, % complete or current leg of trip, miles to go to complete leg, weather, arrival time, total hrs of trip, hrs driving, hours stopped, avg speed, avg moving speed, max speed, avg uphill speed, avg downhill speed, elevation. Love that display!