iPad not fit for navigation purposes

[Babylon]

Thought I'd try using Navionics app on the iPad yesterday, just to familiarise myself with it in practice. Just a short hop from Bembridge to Chichester, an entirely uncontroversial route I know very well, but using it as if I were a first time visitor etc.

With almost no wind and a high daytime temperature, I was motoring with the iPad propped up against the coaming forward of the hatch when guess what....?

It got too hot and bothered had to shut itself down!

 

[coopec]

Thought I'd try using Navionics app on the iPad yesterday, just to familiarise myself with it in practice. Just a short hop from Bembridge to Chichester, an entirely uncontroversial route I know very well, but using it as if I were a first time visitor etc.

With almost no wind and a high daytime temperature, I was motoring with the iPad propped up against the coaming forward of the hatch when guess what....?

It got too hot and bothered had to shut itself down!

Apparently you are not Robinson Crusoe!

How to keep your iPad from overheating in flight - iPad Pilot News

Apple lists the normal temperature operating range for the iPad as 32° – 95° F.
While using the device below the freezing point may cause the screen to lag a bit,
it will still function.May 29, 2018

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Well i must have been doing something wrong because I've used mine for a 1600nm trip from Falmouth to Valencia non stop and a 500nm round Majorca trip this year with no problems. That's 18 days continuous and 6 days continuous respectively. I guess i'm not smart enough to leave the screen fully bright, other apps running in the background, the wifi on and sit it in direct sunlight. I might try those next time to see if I can get it to overheat ;-)

 

[RichardS]

My Sony tablet shuts down if left in direct sunlight and it gets above 40 degrees C-ish.

Once one is aware of the issue, it is easily avoided.

Richard

 

[Tam Lin]

Mine shuts down if it has been in direct sunlight for a while. It is on a swivel bracket so I just move it a bit.

 

[johnalison]

The same thing happened to me while I was weaving my way out of Treguier, while using it as a repeater, leaving me having to use my eyes. They are useful accessories, but not to be relied on.

 

[GHA]

, leaving me having to use my eyes. They are useful accessories, but not to be relied on.

Those ancient mk1 eyeballs are in desperate need of an update, can't see in the dark, can't see round corders, see things which aren't there, not really fit for puropose on their own

 

[RichardS]

.... leaving me having to use my eyes. They are useful accessories, but not to be relied on.

Now it's all going to kick off.

Richard

 

[ashtead]

If those eyeballs get too hot they stop working as well. Any it kit doesn’t like being heated to much. Real problems with iPod around the pool I believe.

 

[Leighb]

Mine has shut itself down in the garden at home, in our conservatory, and in the wheelhouse on the boat. All occasions was sitting in direct sunlight for some time, which it does not like! Last trip on the boat I had it standing up on the chart table rather than lying flat, better cooling and less sun on the screen, and also draped a small tea towel over the back to help shade it. It then was fine on a 3 hour trip on a hot sunny day. Not so easy to arrange in a sailing boat though, perhaps needs to be in a bracket?

Mind you, our Simrad plotter has also restarted itself once or twice which I thought might be an overheating issue, certainly the case got very hot, so I have rigged a plywood shade between it and the windscreen with a computer fan blowing air at the rear of the case, it does seem to keep that cooler.

 

[Jamie Dundee]

Sat in the garden, too windy ? to get out. Mrs JD has just gone back in the house as iPad shut down due to overheating.
Would I use an MFD to read The Times in the garden - no. Would I use an iPad to navigate- no. Horses/courses etc etc.

 

[Dave100456]

You try continuously working hard with sun and in "high daytime temps" without a break and my guess is you would shut down too!

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Sat in the garden, too windy ? to get out. Mrs JD has just gone back in the house as iPad shut down due to overheating.
Would I use an MFD to read The Times in the garden - no. Would I use an iPad to navigate- no. Horses/courses etc etc.

As I posted above, Ive just done 6 days continuous in the MED. 30+ °C day temps 24 at night. So long as you don't leave it sitting in direct sunlight it's fine.

 

[Jamie Dundee]

As I posted above, Ive just done 6 days continuous in the MED. 30+ °C day temps 24 at night. So long as you don't leave it sitting in direct sunlight it's fine.

Congrats. A long running debate which will no doubt continue. I prefer to use electronics designed for the marine environment, what others choose to do is of no importance to me as I’ll never sail on their boats

This reply took 10 minutes to write as iPod is hot. I hope the chart refresh rate is better in warm climates.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Congrats. A long running debate which will no doubt continue. I prefer to use electronics designed for the marine environment, what others choose to do is of no importance to me as I’ll never sail on their boats

This reply took 10 minutes to write as iPod is hot. I hope the chart refresh rate is better in warm climates.

lol!

 

[Jamie Dundee]

lol!

Why would it be? Owning and maintaining a boat is expensive. Why would you skimp on equipment you may rely on to save your life? God knows electronics these days are a fraction of the comparative price of 20 odd years ago, if people choose to rely on Google Maps and Twitter to navigate good luck to them. I won’t be one of them.

 

[PabloPicasso]

There's something wrong with Google satellite view and twitter as a nav aids? ?

 

[Jamie Dundee]

There's something wrong with Google satellite view and twitter as a nav aids? ?

Don’t people these days possess AA road maps ? ?

 

[GHA]

There's something wrong with Google satellite view and twitter as a nav aids? ?

No,
Satellite images are actually an extremely useful addition in the nav arsenal. Also almost certainly very accurate so you can check the accuracy of your other charts.

 

[PabloPicasso]

I do remember hearing about someone who went accross the atlantic to america with just a USA road atlas. He just went ashore and asked where he was when he got there.