I was curious whats the longest anyone here has left there avic on straight? I once had my factory radio in my nissan on for 5 hrs straight and it overheated, wonder if the avic is like that if it has fans or does it come on alot? Dont want it to fry on long trips, any insight on this?

Two days after I installed it I drove from my parents house (where I installed) back to DC....6 1/2hrs only stopping twice for like 5/10 mins to get gas/go to bathroom and it worked fine....

Tyrant11429 said:

I was curious whats the longest anyone here has left there avic on straight? I once had my factory radio in my nissan on for 5 hrs straight and it overheated, wonder if the avic is like that if it has fans or does it come on alot? Dont want it to fry on long trips, any insight on this?

my friends es300 does that too. thats just bad design and cooling.

Tennessee to Florida 14.5 hours 5 stops for gas and food none over half an hour the z1 never stopped kickin

It's got a nice sized fan in the back to cool it off. Unless your inner dash is hotter than usual, it should be fine.

Keep in mind that these units are installed in display boards and left on for years at a time in some instances. Some stores never power their boards down, but even the ones that do have them running for at least 12 hours a day. Granted, there is usually more airspace behind display boards, but there are also a ton of other electronics running in the same vicinity, each generating their own heat.

4 hour trip no stopping, no problems
I have gone on longer trips but 4hr. is the longest so far without turning off at all.

14.5 hours non stop. Left the truck and Z1 on while filling up and what not, never had a problem.

We have one on display here at work and it stays on 24-7... No problems at all....

I drove for 12 hrs straight no problems to canada, and coming back

20 hour drive form CA to CO. Was still kicking.

I think the n3 on my display has the record. In a fairly cramped space, it's been powered down once since it arrived in the store when they were released. So what's that about a year or so?

I left it in my car for 10 hours straight, with the car not even running. It was completely fine, and my battery didnt even die!

22 hours straight NYC to Disney World. Only stopped and shut off a few times for gas and bathroom no more than 20 minutes each time. Even food was done through drive thrus LOL

22 hours from ny to disney? Were you doing 40 or something :wink:

MAJOR traffic across the entire state of Virginia and part of northern North Carolina on I-95 due to flipped over tractor trailer :(

guess the nav traffic didn't work too well eh :wink: . Yeah the down side there's almost always traffic thorugh virginia and don't even get me started with accidents involving semis......

Unfortunately I didnt have my NavTraffic at the time, and since I have NO idea of my way around anywhere outside of NYC i wasnt going to try to reroute lol

cntrylvr79 said:

22 hours from ny to disney? Were you doing 40 or something :wink:

Took me 20 hours to disney from LI

what parts of LI are you in?

11 hours from Marietta, GA -> Key West, FL

3 gas stops, no worries, no problems and no traffic jams