GPS Data Logger

Looking for a low cost GPS data logger with a battery life
of several days. Don't need bluetooth or anything fancy.
Most of the devices under <$100 appear to have a battery
life in the 10-24 hour range. I'd like 2-3 days minimum
but a week would be better.

Any suggestions?

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Well I'd suggest any ols GPS would work except for that battery life
thing........

wrote:


Then why make the suggestion?
DUH!

Pegleg@usnavyret.mil (Pegleg) wrote in


Most receivers will run on external power.

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I should have expanded on the comment I made. If battery life is not an
issue, then about any GPS would work. This suggests:

1. You might rethink the problem solution. Do you need continuous
coordinates recorded? How many? Is there an alternate way of getting the
data?

2. Can you engineer a solution from "off the shelf" parts - I ussed to use
an old Garmin 12xl with an alarm system 12 volt battery that would give me a
couple of days of run time between charges. Since we don't know the
problem, we can't engineer the solution, but perhaps attaching a GPS to an
auto power system so it is powered all the time might be a solution.

3. The density of data (track points) is another issue - if you need a lot
of data points, a plain vanilla GPS may not be good enough. If you can
tailor your solution so that the data can be less "dense", you can probably
make do with a GPS.