June 29, 2010 15:07
I brought my ipad out sailing last Saturday. It was a typical 90deg hot FL sunny day. The ipad worked fine for about 20 minutes, and then I got a warning message on the screen stating the ipad was shutting down because of high temperature. I naturally freaked out, shut down the ipad, and placed it out of the sun in the cabin below.
I keep my ipad in the apple ipad case. This case is made from a black synthetic leather-like material. It is possible that the case was the main issue, but I would still guess that to use the ipad out on deck in a hot sunny day, one would need to it in shade.
After cooling down, I started the Navionic HD app, breifly compared gps data to my other gps unit. All worked fine. I shut the ipad off, but left the tracking option in Navionics on.
The ipad went from cabin to boat bag to boat bag stuffed in car trunk for ride home. Later that evening I discovered that I had the left tracking option on, and I was impressed that it continued to track the remaining few hours of sailing, the walk from the boat to clubhouse to car and car ride home.
I keep my ipad in the apple ipad case. This case is made from a black synthetic leather-like material. It is possible that the case was the main issue, but I would still guess that to use the ipad out on deck in a hot sunny day, one would need to it in shade.
After cooling down, I started the Navionic HD app, breifly compared gps data to my other gps unit. All worked fine. I shut the ipad off, but left the tracking option in Navionics on.
The ipad went from cabin to boat bag to boat bag stuffed in car trunk for ride home. Later that evening I discovered that I had the left tracking option on, and I was impressed that it continued to track the remaining few hours of sailing, the walk from the boat to clubhouse to car and car ride home.