Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: LFF64 on 31 July 2009, 20:40:22
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I know I have been told to change the Antenna and sorry to repost without doing this yet .
The thing is I have now put the antenna in the back of the car , it was in the front there was an extension from back to front .
I am now picking up 6/7 sats I have repositioned the car and been for a drive around with the unit set, and it worked it knew where I was and guided me home ,
I checked the position Long and Lat and it matched my other sat nav so I assume the antenna is working ,does this sound ok so far :question
Porblem I have is when the ignition is turned off and back on the car looses its position and says I am about 15 miles away it does this every time even after setting car position .
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still reckon antenna, but if you want to prove first, I have lots of spare bits you can borrow if you want to play chop-and-change for a couple of weeks
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I have not been out yet to see what its doing today , the link you put up a while ago for the antenna the supplier is out of stock still >:(
What is the difference between the SMB M and SMB F is it just the connector thats different do you know :y
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I have not been out yet to see what its doing today , the link you put up a while ago for the antenna the supplier is out of stock still >:(
What is the difference between the SMB M and SMB F is it just the connector thats different do you know :y
yes.
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SMB = sub miniature type B http://www.amphenolrf.com/products/smb.asp?N=0&sid=4A76288044FF617F& for the gory details.
M or F usually means male or female.
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OK so its not the antenna I have a new one and I am getting the same problem with this fitted
It is working ok generally but it is still telling me I am 12 miles away from where I am when around home when its first turned on and its always the same place ,its as if this is set as a default home position is this possible and if it is ,is it something that can be changed :question
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hmmm, wonder if its losing power, thus losing location with ign off :-/
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I did wonder that too but it always goes back to exactly the same place as if its set . I did notice before I moved the antenna it was loosing the date and time untill it sorted its self out which would have pointed to power failure with ign off . Since I moved the original antenna that now does not happen .
I will have to check the connections on that connector again I think as long as we get enough dry weather to actually get out there and have a look ::)
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I did wonder that too but it always goes back to exactly the same place as if its set . I did notice before I moved the antenna it was loosing the date and time untill it sorted its self out which would have pointed to power failure with ign off . Since I moved the original antenna that now does not happen .
I will have to check the connections on that connector again I think as long as we get enough dry weather to actually get out there and have a look ::)
LOL.
The offer of lending any part of carin still stands - swapping cd unit may help eliminate wiring issues etc. I could probably even get tunnie to deliver to bicester ;D
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Sounds to me like the constant 12v supply is getting switched off with the ignition. Are you sure that its there all the time?
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:-[ I think I have sorted the problem now , it was a wiring problem :-[
I am not sure why I had not picked up the problem when I first installed the sat nav about six months ago :exclamation
It appears that I had not got the perm 12v with ignition off , which as lincsRobert correctly pointed out I swapped this over on Wednesday and thought that was it until I took the key out of the ignition and the bloody sat nav stayed on >:(
I have checked it all again and found out I also had the ign 12v wired wrongly so I have now changed that too and it all seems to be ok now :y