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Date: 01 Aug 2007 08:08:57
From: BCDrums
Subject: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?

BC
low power

Date: 05 Aug 2007 02:53:42
From:
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On Aug 1, 12:54 pm, BigBlueToe <grsn...@charter.net > wrote:
> On Aug 1, 5:08 am, BCDrums <bcdr...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
> > batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>
> > BC
> > low power
>
> I have a Performance computer (Axiom). Its literature said I had
> something like 30 seconds to make the switch before I would lose any
> data. I replaced my battery this summer prior to a tour, and they
> were right - all the data stayed intact.

I have a Cateye Astrale cc100 and the manual says if you swap the
battery within 20 seconds it will keep settings and odometer info. I
wish I have known this when I let the old battery die in December.

Thusly did a friend of some friends supposedly flip his odometer at
100000k miles.--Shane

Date: 08 Aug 2007 14:57:30
From: BCDrums
Subject: Re: Swapping batteries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

shayana.kadidal@gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 1, 12:54 pm, BigBlueToe <grsn...@charter.net> wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 5:08 am, BCDrums <bcdr...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
>>> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>>> BC
>>> low power
>> I have a Performance computer (Axiom). Its literature said I had
>> something like 30 seconds to make the switch before I would lose any
>> data. I replaced my battery this summer prior to a tour, and they
>> were right - all the data stayed intact.
>
> I have a Cateye Astrale cc100 and the manual says if you swap the
> battery within 20 seconds it will keep settings and odometer info. I
> wish I have known this when I let the old battery die in December.
>
> Thusly did a friend of some friends supposedly flip his odometer at
> 100000k miles.--Shane
>

I swapped my battery today. The old one was not dead. I put in the new
battery in under two seconds. All data reset to original settings.

So to answer my own question, ya can't do it.

Now you know the REST of the story.

BC
born again odometer

Date: 03 Aug 2007 22:56:04
From: mike.a.schwab@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On Aug 1, 7:08 am, BCDrums <bcdr...@comcast.net > wrote:
> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>
> BC
> low power

I entered my data on http://www.bikejournal.com/ .

Date: 01 Aug 2007 09:54:18
From: BigBlueToe
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On Aug 1, 5:08 am, BCDrums <bcdr...@comcast.net > wrote:
> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>
> BC
> low power

I have a Performance computer (Axiom). Its literature said I had
something like 30 seconds to make the switch before I would lose any
data. I replaced my battery this summer prior to a tour, and they
were right - all the data stayed intact.

Date: 01 Aug 2007 09:06:00
From: Ben C
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net > wrote:
> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?

Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.

Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
in again if you can. Also make a note of what you set the wheel size to.

Date: 01 Aug 2007 13:27:09
From: BCDrums
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
>> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>
> Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
> and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.

Alas, not this one. That's a great idea.

>
> Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
> in again if you can.

No can do in Cateye Astrale.

Also make a note of what you set the wheel size to.

Yes, will do this.

BC

Date: 04 Aug 2007 13:10:23
From: Tom \Johnny Sunset\ Sherman
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

BCDrums wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
>>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so,
>>> how'd ya do it?
>>
>> Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
>> and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.
>
> Alas, not this one. That's a great idea.
>
>>
>> Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
>> in again if you can.
>
> No can do in Cateye Astrale....

Yes you can. Set the bicycle upside down on the floor and spin the wheel
with the cyclometer sensor until the mileage matches the value prior to
battery replacement. ;)

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

--
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Date: 04 Aug 2007 14:47:55
From: Ben C
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On 2007-08-04, Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman <sunsetss0003@iinvalid.com > wrote:
> BCDrums wrote:
>> Ben C wrote:
>>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
>>>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so,
>>>> how'd ya do it?
>>>
>>> Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
>>> and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.
>>
>> Alas, not this one. That's a great idea.
>>
>>>
>>> Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
>>> in again if you can.
>>
>> No can do in Cateye Astrale....
>
> Yes you can. Set the bicycle upside down on the floor and spin the wheel
> with the cyclometer sensor until the mileage matches the value prior to
> battery replacement. ;)

Remembering of course to repack the wheel bearings a few times during
the process.

Maybe that would actually be feasible if you could set a really huge
wheelsize on the computer. Don't know what they go up to, only four
digits for cirumference in mm on mine I think.

Date: 05 Aug 2007 11:58:05
From: Michael Press
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

In article
<slrnfb9lup.5jj.spamspam@bowser.marioworld >,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs > wrote:

> On 2007-08-04, Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman <sunsetss0003@iinvalid.com> wrote:
> > BCDrums wrote:
> >> Ben C wrote:
> >>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
> >>>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so,
> >>>> how'd ya do it?
> >>>
> >>> Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
> >>> and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.
> >>
> >> Alas, not this one. That's a great idea.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
> >>> in again if you can.
> >>
> >> No can do in Cateye Astrale....
> >
> > Yes you can. Set the bicycle upside down on the floor and spin the wheel
> > with the cyclometer sensor until the mileage matches the value prior to
> > battery replacement. ;)
>
> Remembering of course to repack the wheel bearings a few times during
> the process.

Or put the magnet on an electric fan and hold the sensor next to it.

--
Michael Press

Date: 04 Aug 2007 17:47:39
From: A Muzi
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

>>>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
>>>>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so,
>>>>> how'd ya do it?
>>>> Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
>>>> and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.
>>> Alas, not this one. That's a great idea.
>>>> Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
>>>> in again if you can.

>>> Ben C wrote:
>>> No can do in Cateye Astrale....

>> BCDrums wrote:
>> Yes you can. Set the bicycle upside down on the floor and spin the wheel
>> with the cyclometer sensor until the mileage matches the value prior to
>> battery replacement. ;)

> Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman <sunsetss0003@iinvalid.com> wrote:
> Remembering of course to repack the wheel bearings a few times during
> the process.

Ben C wrote:
> Maybe that would actually be feasible if you could set a really huge
> wheelsize on the computer. Don't know what they go up to, only four
> digits for cirumference in mm on mine I think.

A determined rider could put ten magnets on the wheel.

(All this to avoid buying a new computer?)
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Date: 04 Aug 2007 17:42:06
From: Tom \Johnny Sunset\ Sherman
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

Ben C? wrote:
> On 2007-08-04, Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman <sunsetss0003@iinvalid.com> wrote:
>> BCDrums wrote:
>>> Ben C wrote:
>>>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
>>>>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so,
>>>>> how'd ya do it?
>>>> Some bike computers have two battery slots, so you put the new one in
>>>> and then take out the old one and it experiences uninterrupted power.
>>> Alas, not this one. That's a great idea.
>>>
>>>> Safer and easier though just to write down the mileage and enter it back
>>>> in again if you can.
>>> No can do in Cateye Astrale....
>> Yes you can. Set the bicycle upside down on the floor and spin the wheel
>> with the cyclometer sensor until the mileage matches the value prior to
>> battery replacement. ;)
>
> Remembering of course to repack the wheel bearings a few times during
> the process.
>
> Maybe that would actually be feasible if you could set a really huge
> wheelsize on the computer. Don't know what they go up to, only four
> digits for cirumference in mm on mine I think.

Just put a magnet on every spoke - see another advantage of traditional
wheels over boutique low-spoke-count wheels!

Heck, I doubled my average riding speed by the purchase of an additional
spoke magnet. ;)

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Date: 01 Aug 2007 15:04:03
From: catzz66
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

BCDrums wrote:
>
>
> No can do in Cateye Astrale.
>
> Also make a note of what you set the wheel size to.
>
> Yes, will do this.
>
>

I know I'm always suceptible to battery failure, so I just use the
lowest end computer I can find. I log the daily odo readings. Once a
month I make a mark on the log to indicate the month end and I compute
monthly mileage.

Date: 01 Aug 2007 20:32:33
From: RonSonic
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:04:03 -0500, catzz66 <catzz66@threeletterservice.com >
wrote:

>BCDrums wrote:
>>
>>
>> No can do in Cateye Astrale.
>>
>> Also make a note of what you set the wheel size to.
>>
>> Yes, will do this.
>>
>>
>
>I know I'm always suceptible to battery failure, so I just use the
>lowest end computer I can find. I log the daily odo readings. Once a
>month I make a mark on the log to indicate the month end and I compute
>monthly mileage.

Lowest end computers; the best of that bunch is the $9 thing at wally mart.
Honest. As accurate as any, survives Florida sand and thunderstorms. All the
usual functions, reset max speed without resetting the rest and the one that all
us fatty masters need, it doesn't let stops affect your average speed. Better
than the low end Cateye and Sigma stuff I've had.

Ron

Date: 02 Aug 2007 02:48:18
From: Clive George
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

"RonSonic" <ronsonic@tampabay.rr.com > wrote in message
news:gb92b3hkjgsdnle6kpbe62jo7708a3bc14@4ax.com...

> Lowest end computers; the best of that bunch is the $9 thing at wally
> mart.
> Honest. As accurate as any, survives Florida sand and thunderstorms. All
> the
> usual functions, reset max speed without resetting the rest

At last, somebody's made a speedo which does that?! Hoorah. If only it would
catch on.

cheers,
clive

Date: 01 Aug 2007 09:51:31
From: John Forrest Tomlinson
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:57 -0400, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net >
wrote:

>Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
>batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?

Not with a Cateye, but I've kept data by writing it down on paper.
Typing info into a computer will work too.
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Date: 01 Aug 2007 13:25:49
From: BCDrums
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:57 -0400, BCDrums <bcdrums@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
>> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>
> Not with a Cateye, but I've kept data by writing it down on paper.
> Typing info into a computer will work too.

I am sure you are right.

BC

Date: 01 Aug 2007 06:07:50
From: jim beam
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

BCDrums wrote:
> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do
> it?
>
> BC
> low power

quickly. but the only data you'd lose is odometer. just write it down
and re-enter. unless you have the bottom of the range model, cateye
computers allow you to re-enter odometer mileage.

Date: 01 Aug 2007 13:25:11
From: BCDrums
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

jim beam wrote:
> BCDrums wrote:
>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd
>> ya do it?
>>
>> BC
>> low power
>
> quickly. but the only data you'd lose is odometer. just write it down
> and re-enter. unless you have the bottom of the range model, cateye
> computers allow you to re-enter odometer mileage.
Jim,

My Cateye is a Astrale an old CC100. No provision in the manual for
re-entering the odometer datum.

BC

Date: 01 Aug 2007 21:22:25
From: jim beam
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

BCDrums wrote:
> jim beam wrote:
>> BCDrums wrote:
>>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced
>>> the batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so,
>>> how'd ya do it?
>>>
>>> BC
>>> low power
>>
>> quickly. but the only data you'd lose is odometer. just write it
>> down and re-enter. unless you have the bottom of the range model,
>> cateye computers allow you to re-enter odometer mileage.
> Jim,
>
> My Cateye is a Astrale an old CC100. No provision in the manual for
> re-entering the odometer datum.
>
> BC

then buy a new one. on sale, $20.

Date: 01 Aug 2007 05:50:31
From: D'ohBoy
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

Date: 01 Aug 2007 13:23:30
From: BCDrums
Subject: Re: Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer

D'ohBoy wrote:
> On Aug 1, 7:08 am, BCDrums <bcdr...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Another thread got me thinking about this...has anyone ever replaced the
>> batteries in a Cateye computer and not lost all data? If so, how'd ya do it?
>>
>> BC
>> low power
>
>
> Ummm, I maintain a training log.

My Cateye IS my training log.

BC