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GPS City Q&A » Outdoor GPS » How rugged is the Montana 650 on a quad?

Outdoor GPS (8 replies)

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How rugged is the Montana 650 on a quad?

› Garmin Montana 650

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Burnie
Red Deer

Original question asked on Oct 3, 2012, 12:14pm

How rugged is the Montana 650 on a quad. I have heard that it is not standing up to back road quading when attached to the quad. Would a different unit work better?

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #1 on Oct 3, 2012, 12:20pm

Because the unit has accelerometers for the screen orientation some customers have complained about the unit in high vibration uses. The compass and screen jumps around. The Montana series is the only one that I have heard having this problem. For 99.9% of people they will not see any issues. If your quad has a lot of vibration I would recommend the GPSMap 62S, Oregon 450 or eTrex 30 as alternatives.

I have personally never seen the issue mentioned by some of our customers

Augon
Gold Canyon, AZ

Reply #2 on Nov 15, 2012, 1:00pm

What about using the lock screen function to solve vibration/accelerometer problem?

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #3 on Nov 15, 2012, 3:15pm

As far as I know that does not work. At this time I do not have a way to test that. If I find a method I will at least give it a try. I just need to create high vibration to test it

tom
la center, wa

Reply #4 on Nov 24, 2012, 4:47pm

I returned mine to REI because it would power off. Used only for offroad trail riding and it did well for a few months and then inexplicably began shutting off. My old garmin 76s did the same thing.

Leonard
Moncton New Brunswick

Reply #5 on Jan 14, 2013, 8:05pm

The Montana comes as an option on the CAN AM Commander side by side and mounts right in to a custom dash baseplate. In the forum I have read nothing of this. Makes me think that its a pretty isolated issue?

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #6 on Jan 15, 2013, 8:18am

The high vibration issue has been mentioned by many customers. However I have yet to reproduce the problem.

Charlie
Montgomery Texas

Reply #7 on Feb 14, 2013, 7:58am

I have the 650 on a dual sport motorcycle on dirt road the vibration would make it jump all over the place. Went to setup, display, orientation lock and put in lock landscape. Fixed problem

Jordan
GPS City

Reply #8 on Feb 14, 2013, 9:02am

Excellent, thank you for passing on the solution to the Montana vibration problem.

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