Swapping bateries & not losing data in a Cateye computer



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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
 
On Aug 1, 7:08 am, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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. Never lost the data from my
cyclocomputer yet.

D'ohBoy
 
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.
 
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:57 -0400, BCDrums <[email protected]>
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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On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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.
 
On Aug 1, 5:08 am, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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.
 
D'ohBoy wrote:
> On Aug 1, 7:08 am, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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
 
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
 
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:08:57 -0400, BCDrums <[email protected]>
> 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
 
Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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
 
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.
 
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:04:03 -0500, catzz66 <[email protected]>
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
 
"RonSonic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> 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
 
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.
 
BCDrums wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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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On 2007-08-04, Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman <[email protected]> wrote:
> BCDrums wrote:
>> Ben C wrote:
>>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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.
 
Ben C? wrote:
> On 2007-08-04, Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> BCDrums wrote:
>>> Ben C wrote:
>>>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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


--
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>>>> On 2007-08-01, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
 
On Aug 1, 12:54 pm, BigBlueToe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 5:08 am, BCDrums <[email protected]> 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
 
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