Anyone using a Dakota Digital GPS speedometer sender? Any problems?

[belfert]

I have a Dakota Digital GPS speedometer that will work with any electronic speedometer.  It is a GPS-50-2.  I have a Nordskog Performance digital speedometer.  (Nordskog used Intellitronix circuit boards so they essentially are the same as Intellitronix.)

Anyhow, I installed the GPS-50-2 last September and it worked perfect for 2,000+ miles.  The display on the speedometer went to zero MPH and stayed there.  I stopped and opened up the dash.  The settings had gotten changed because the button is on top of the unit and wires had touched it.  It worked fine for the rest of that trip and I left on another trip a few days later.  On that trip I had to reset the GPS-50-2 unit again.  Later in the trip the speedometer started displaying weird things and then quit for a while.  I played with things for a while and eventually the speedometer at least displaying something again, but the odometer reset to zero and I never got the speedometer working again.  I think I got the GPS-50-2 and the speedometer talking again after I got home, but have not driven it since to tell for sure.  Dakota Digital tech support had me check some things and said the GPS-50-2 is working fine.

Anyone have one of these units and had any issues with it?  It may be the speedometer that went bonkers, but why did it have problems at the same time the GPS-50-2 was having issues?  Was the GPS-50-2 accidentally set to send way too many pulses per second and royally confused the speedometer?

[Dreadnought]

Please give us an update when you can. I'd like to learn more about this and any pitt falls you may have encountered. Thanks

[belfert]

I chose to replace my original GPS speedometer sender with the Dakota Digital one because the original one would lose GPS lock too often.  Dakota Digital includes a non GPS backup if GPS lock is lost so you always have a speed readout.  The newer GPS chips also hold GPS lock a lot better.

It will probably be a couple months before I play with this again.