Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

Mr. Rand McNally, not sure if this has been asked before or not, but where are these units made?

 

Rand - China
Cobra - China
TomTom - China
PC Miler - China
Garmin- Taiwan
iPods, iPads, iPhones - China and Taiwan

 

I am seriously considering going from my current TND710 to the 720, but I have a few questions about it:

1) Approximately how much data is consumed by the unit if the weather/wind speed option is left on continuously in a 24 hour period?

2) Is the data amount the same if you display just weather radar info, just wind speed info, or is the data for both brought in simultaneously and there is no difference?

3) Does the weather/wind speed info display in all scale modes (as I constantly use auto-scale mode)?

4) Does the weather/wind info disappear if you lose data connectivity, or will it display a static "last known" image of that information, then update once data is reestablished?

I thank you in advance for your input.

 

I'm sure Mark will address those questions. I don't think the manual does but it does talk about the weather feature a little bit on page 38 (pdf). Also, there is a video that discusses the wifi function some.

 

Thank you for the info! Please let me know about the approximate data usage within the one hour timeframe that you stated you would check. Also, it would be interesting to see what the usage is for weather and then for wind in the same timeframe.

One last question. Just for my edification, what is the source of the weather/wind info (NOAA, Weather Channel, AccuWeather, etc.)?

Again, thank you very much!

 

7" 710 just dropped from 399 to 299 at pilot. Is there new device coming soon?

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