Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person druidh <[email hidden]> said
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:Got a GPS? My Geko 301 will give me the temperature, though it's not
immediately obvious. You have to hold down the "OK" button as you
switch it on.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:That's the temperature inside the thing, which it uses (or at least
most other GPSs do) for local clock correction purposes. When you
power on (assuming it's been off for a while) it is probably a
reasonable approximation to ambient, but it won't be if you've used
the GPS recently.Aha! It won;t be correct because the GPS itself heats up, or because
your hand will be warming it up?
Either or both. The former being harder to avoid, although the power
consumption of the average GPS isn't exactly room heater standard.
The other issue is that, while you're doing this, the GPS is probably
not paying much attention to its day job (the temperature display is a
diagnostic mode thing).
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