Zander 941

On Fri, 29 May 2015 05:12:20 -0700, krasw wrote:

On Friday, 29 May 2015 14:45:42 UTC+3, David Kinsell wrote:
I always wince when people spend as much fixing up the old units as a
new unit with far superior specs would cost. Time to move on.

Dave

Except variometer part in Zander SR940/GP941 system is still one of the
best, and moving on might easily mean stepping down.


That's fine. It's like the Cambridge 302, which I currently have, many
people like its variometer. If my logger goes out, I'll buy a Nano and
leave the 302 in place. Nano is tiny, it's not like it's a panel space
issue. I'll let the 302 gps still drive my moving map, which is a Nook
with TopHat.

I've been accused in the past of "hating all 302's", which was a stupid
comment (even for R.A.S.). Making rational decisions about obsolescent
hardware isn't anything to be ashamed of.

Dave

As far as I know the ZS1 was a joint venture between Zander and SDI from the start, so basically it still has full support from SDI. In any case, a fix is available from SDI. They replace the lithium batterie of the GPS module and make some software changes to the Garmin software. When returning the Logger it is also recommended to have the internal lithium battery replaced since it is usually well along the path of it's ten year lifetime.

I paid around 180 EUR for the fix and the internal battery replacement.

Since you need the GP941 to provide a GPS signal to the ZS1, reverting to a more modern logger is not really an option unless you want to replace the complete setup.

As an alternative an NMEA input mod is available for the ZS1 which will allow and NMEA source to be used to feed a GPS Signal - even though that will probably cost similar effort to having the logger fixed.