Qualcomm timeout

Do you mean a separate fuse panel near the black box (just for the box), or are you talking about power wires running to the qualcomm harness from the tractors main fuse panel? If so I definitely want to look into this. I'll put a little switch on the dashboard for when I want to go home and turn it off, otherwise I'd like it to stay on all the time. I HATE waiting for the thing to wake up.

 

Geeze your generation is so cranky.

And here is the problem I have with it, its not the initial bootup time, its doing it over, and over, and over again.

Wake up, turn on ignition, qualcomm starts to wake up. If I leave ignition on, no problem, but if I turn it back off, so my APU can start back up, etc., it'll time out shortly afterwards and then I have to repeat it again. This morning was a perfect example, got a message from my ICA, which woke the Qualcomm up. She wanted some information so I started writing my reply, then stopped and grabbed my laptop to get some info for her, so I set the Qualcomm down. Once I get the info I need, and pick it back up, its already timed out and turned itself off again. So my message is gone, I have to turn the ignition on, stop my APU/heat or AC, then wait another 5 minutes for it to boot back up, etc. Its the repetitive waiting and waiting for this thing that annoys me.

 

I know, I'm just giving you a hard time as well moosc. We have a reputation to keep up here, you know. I know you can keep pressing the "Delay" button but that gets old watching over it after a while. I've never heard of computer components dying from constant use (I'd imagine starting/stopping would actually be harder on them), but heat will. The black box in my company truck fried itself when the truck was sitting in direct sunlight for several hours at a shipper once, and I had to shut it off because I wasn't allowed to stay in the truck while they spent several hours loading me, so I know it got really hot inside the truck. Starting the truck for a few minutes does seem to work, but I refuse to start my engine unless the truck is going to be driven and the engine given a chance to warm up. Starting and stopping a cold engine (not giving it a chance to warm up completely) is very hard on it, and since this engine is mine to take care of, I won't subject it to that kind of abuse. Not to mention I'm not a fan of replacing starters any more often than I need to, lol.