The Setup Menu; Saving Battery Life - Garmin GPS GPS 60 Owner's Manual

The Setup Menu

The Setup Menu allows you to customize the GPS 60 to your personal
preferences. Using the Setup Menu, you can save battery life, and you
can change almost any setting on your GPS 60. To access the Setup
Menu, highlight Setup from the Main Menu Page and press ENTER.

Saving Battery Life

Using backlighting, WAAS or frequent beep tones can significantly
reduce the life of your batteries. To save battery life, lower the intensity
and timeout of your backlight, use WAAS infrequently, and mute the
beep tones. You can also change your GPS settings to battery-saver mode.
To change backlight settings:
1. From the Setup Menu, highlight 'Display' and press
2. Highlight the 'Backlight Timeout' field and press
seconds' to preserve battery life and press
3. Change the 'Backlight Level' field to a lower percentage by
highlighting it and pressing
key down.
To disable WAAS:
1. From the Setup Menu, highlight 'System' and press
2. Highlight the 'WAAS' field and press
the menu and press ENTER
ENTER
. Choose '15
ENTER
ENTER .
ENTER , and then pressing the
ENTER
. Choose 'Disabled' from
ENTER
.
The Setup Menu
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ROCKER
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Adjusting Backlight Timeout and Brightness
GPS Navigation
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