Article: 51887 of sci.geo.satellite-nav Sender: blalor@localhost.localdomain Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Proximity Alarm LED References: X-All-Your-Base-Are-Belong-To: Us. X-URL: From: Brian Lalor Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:19:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.14.248.95 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news1.west.cox.net 1037978349 68.14.248.95 (Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:19:09 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:19:09 EST Organization: Cox Communications Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed3.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news-xfer.cox.net!p01!news1.west.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net sci.geo.satellite-nav:51887 "Jerry Freadman" writes: > Proximity Waypoints is something I use daily. Beeper in Garmin 12CX is not > loud enough. Is it possible to hook up a LED light to flash off of the data > cable when the proximity alarm goes off. Possible? Yes. Easy? No. :-) Actually, unless the NMEA data contains information about proximity waypoints, you'd have to have an autonomous device attached to the serial port that also had knowledge of your proximity waypoints. What might be easier to do would be to hook up an LED to the speaker feed (with appropriate circuitry) so that when the alarm goes off the LED lights up... -- Brian Lalor | http://introducingthelalors.org/ blalor@ithacabands.org (email) | blalor@jabber.ithacabands.org (jabber) N33°29.18' W111°56.55' (Earth)