Wayfinder V100 Digital Vehicle Compass

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Product Manual [380kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.3 x 3 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• ASIN: B00004YMB9
• Item model number: V100
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,637 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Product Description

Determine your direction with the V100 digital vehicle compass. This basic compass works in all types of vehicles--cars, trucks, SUVs, or RVs. It displays your direction with eight cardinal points (N, S, SE, NW, etc.) on an easy-to-ready LCD screen. Mount it on the dashboard with the included bracket and suction cups, or easily remove it from the bracket to prevent theft. This compass turns off automatically when the vehicle is parked and no change in the magnetic field is detected for ten minutes. It operates on two AAA batteries (not included) and comes with a one-year warranty.

Product Description

PERCEPTION DIGITAL V100, WAYFINDER EASY TO READ DIGITAL VEHICLE

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Customer Reviews

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53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not accurate enough to be worthwhile, March 27, 2003

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Richard G. Bunker Jr. (Jenkintown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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I am disappointed with this compass. The directions for calibrating it are ambiguous, and it took me several tries to get it to agree that it was calibrated. That having been done, it seems to display "distortion" and incorrect heading information about 20% of the time. Further, even when it thinks it is accurate, it is often at odds with what I know to be the accurate direction -- not totally off, but showing W when we are going almost directly NW, for example. And it has no provision for accuracy beyond the eight directions that it can show with two letters. I will be replacing this with something else.

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Keep your receipt if you buy this!, February 22, 2002

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This review is from: Wayfinder V100 Digital Vehicle Compass (Electronics)

I found this compass fairly easy to calibrate (2 attempts the first time) and it displayed the direction with moderate accuracy for 3 months. Then one day as I pushed a button it sprang out of its windshield mount and landed softly on the carpeted floor of my car. It worked for a short while thereafter, and then just started displaying "E", "N", or "NE" whatever direction I was pointed in - as if only half the sensor circuitry were active.

So be warned about spotty quality and/or poor durability of this compass - keep your receipt if you buy it!!!

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars disappointing gadget!, January 1, 2001

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Z. Wang (Campbell, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wayfinder V100 Digital Vehicle Compass (Electronics)

ADVICE: DON'T buy this thing!

I bought this thing hoping that it would really "navigate". It is definitely disappoining. I followed the instructions on the manual and calibrated it. It eventually got the right direction after several frustating calibration. The second day, it was totally off (indicating "N" while I was traving south). And now I just cannot get it work -- it is displaying "E" no matter where you are heanding, and no matter how you calibrate it.