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VARIA RTL 516 blinken bei Radarkontakt?

rsedlmeier over 2 years ago

Mein VARIA RTL 516 soll blinken bei einem Radarkontakt und ansonsten aus sein.

Bitte wie stellt man das ein?

Der RTL 516 ist mit meinem Edge 1030 verbunden.

Gruss$Dank

0 Fipo8 over 2 years ago

Ask user "Volker": https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/varia-series/259302/varia-radar-tail-light-question

May also try https://apps.garmin.com/de-DE/apps/0d9fd828-c932-4470-9c37-fd2828881888 but i guess won't work as the 516 is not compatible

0 randybb over 2 years ago

RTL515 or the older one will blink, but probably this is not the case of RTL516 for german market that has limited functionality (5 lumen and no blinking).

0 Volker over 2 years ago

Geht nicht.

0 HaryT over 2 years ago

Hat eigentlich schon mal wer versucht aus dem 516 ein 515 zu machen? Ich denke mir, dass es sicherlich hardwaremäßig das selbe Gerät ist nur entweder ein jumper umgesetzt werden müsste oder über seriellen Zugang was umgesetzt. Habe meinen bisher nicht zerlegt um nachzusehen, überlege mir das aber. Blinken wäre in Österreich sogar ok.....

0 tmk2 over 2 years ago in reply to HaryT

HaryT said:
Hat eigentlich schon mal wer versucht aus dem 516 ein 515 zu machen?

This question has been asked several times before. I never heard about anyone succeeding.

HaryT said:
Ich denke mir, dass es sicherlich hardwaremäßig das selbe Gerät ist

And I have reasons to believe that there are in fact some significant hardware differences, while the firmware remains the same for both models.

0 HaryT over 2 years ago

Would it realy make sens to develop a separate hardware for this market? For me it would make more sense that you use the same hardware and just have a kind of jumper or so to set the version. Maybe I try to open my varia and do a closer look.

0 tmk2 over 2 years ago in reply to HaryT

HaryT said:
Would it realy make sens to develop a separate hardware for this market?

Depends on how many units you sell. Germany is a relatively big market.

HaryT said:
For me it would make more sense that you use the same hardware and just have a kind of jumper or so to set the version.

I'm no specialist in modern electronics, but I suspect that at this level of integration in electronic components jumpers haven't been used for years.

HaryT said:
Maybe I try to open my varia and do a closer look.

Go ahead. I am curious to see myself.

0 randybb over 2 years ago in reply to HaryT

Don't think it is possible without damaging it. Luckily we have FCC https://fccid.io/IPH-04024/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-4655614 :)

0 HaryT over 2 years ago

Fcc fotos are fine thanks for that, but have to zoom in a littel more, 2 pices look like they could be jumper (open on this pcb), but not sure, it also looks a little bit like there is something written on the pcb but resolution is not good enough to read it.

Germany Compared to worldwide is not a big market, how many devices do you think they can sell there.

Jumpers are not only this old big things known from motherboards, in modern times they are soldered. It is common, if you have a battery managemtsystem you can decide with soldered jumpers how many cells you use, just as an example.

0 Artem over 2 years ago

Ehrlich gesagt, deutsche STVO bezüglich blinkenden Lichter ist doof.
Deswegen bestellt euch einfach ein rtl515 aus dem Ausland. Ist einfacher, als an der Hardware rumzuspielen.
Amazon.it oder es gibt's ja auch