Garmin Tactix 7 Amoled, Applied Balistic and SIG Kilo 6

[cainsef]

Hi All,

I own an Tactix 7 Amoled with AB elite on it for about 10 months now. I have as well an SIG Kilo 6 Binoculars. I have used these two together for 6-7 month getting the balistic solution (on binoculars) in real time and no issues. In the last month a strange thing is happening. Looks like SIG is sending the distance to the watch, balistic solution is shown on the watch screen, however is not automatically sent to binoculars but i have to press one of the watch. I have reseted the watch and nothing changed. It seems like the watch goes in some sort of “standby” and is only receiving the data.

 

[Taylorbok]

I've only ever used it the way you are describing in the second scenario.
I link sig 10k's to Kestrel 5700X and use it to play around with my numbers if needed. I can't say I even know what my display says aside from the range when it's set to BDX mode.
I can check tonight if no one else chimes in.

in my mind if you are seeing it on the binos it's using the internal AB which is Ultralight and only good to 700 yards or something like that

 

[cainsef]

I've only ever used it the way you are describing in the second scenario.
I link sig 10k's to Kestrel 5700X and use it to play around with my numbers if needed. I can't say I even know what my display says aside from the range when it's set to BDX mode.
I can check tonight if no one else chimes in.

in my mind if you are seeing it on the binos it's using the internal AB which is Ultralight and only good to 700 yards or something like that

Hi,

Thanks for answering. If you are setting the binos to ABX they should give you the same balistic solution as the watch and/or kestrel. They use to work like that; they still do but I have to “wake up” the watch with a press of a button . Try and let me know.

 

[Taylorbok]

Hi,

Thanks for answering. If you are setting the binos to ABX they should give you the same balistic solution as the watch and/or kestrel. They use to work like that; they still do but I have to “wake up” the watch with a press of a button . Try and let me know.

I will try and look tonight.
Thought about it a bit and I'm almost certain they won't display the same solution, I don't think the Kestrel shares the wind call back to the bino's and I'm pretty certain the binos don't send DOF to the Kestrel. It is possible the watch interfaces differently tho

Either way sounds like something is wrong if your watch is going to sleep.

 

[JCscu926c]

Hi All,

I own an Tactix 7 Amoled with AB elite on it for about 10 months now. I have as well an SIG Kilo 6 Binoculars. I have used these two together for 6-7 month getting the balistic solution (on binoculars) in real time and no issues. In the last month a strange thing is happening. Looks like SIG is sending the distance to the watch, balistic solution is shown on the watch screen, however is not automatically sent to binoculars but i have to press one of the watch. I have reseted the watch and nothing changed. It seems like the watch goes in some sort of “standby” and is only receiving the data.

Hey! That's definitely not how it's supposed to work. Have you tried restarting both devices or resetting the connection between them? Maybe something got stuck in standby mode or something.

 

[cainsef]

Hey! That's definitely not how it's supposed to work. Have you tried restarting both devices or resetting the connection between them? Maybe something got stuck in standby mode or something.

Hi, did that. I even factory reset the watch.

 

[CavReconScout]

I don’t have a Tactix 7, but I know on my Fortrex 701 if I have wind 1 set at 0 it will not send the solution back to the 6k. If I bump it up to 1mph it works like it should.

 

[cainsef]

I don’t have a Tactix 7, but I know on my Fortrex 701 if I have wind 1 set at 0 it will not send the solution back to the 6k. If I bump it up to 1mph it works like it should.

Great, was not the case with previous firmware. I will try that tomorrow evening and let you know.

 

[cainsef]

Hi All,

I did tried what suggested and still no change. There is any way to reset the SIG binocular to factory settings ?

 

[Garu]

Hi All,

I own an Tactix 7 Amoled with AB elite on it for about 10 months now. I have as well an SIG Kilo 6 Binoculars. I have used these two together for 6-7 month getting the balistic solution (on binoculars) in real time and no issues. In the last month a strange thing is happening. Looks like SIG is sending the distance to the watch, balistic solution is shown on the watch screen, however is not automatically sent to binoculars but i have to press one of the watch. I have reseted the watch and nothing changed. It seems like the watch goes in some sort of “standby” and is only receiving the d

Hi All,

I own an Tactix 7 Amoled with AB elite on it for about 10 months now. I have as well an SIG Kilo 6 Binoculars. I have used these two together for 6-7 month getting the balistic solution (on binoculars) in real time and no issues. In the last month a strange thing is happening. Looks like SIG is sending the distance to the watch, balistic solution is shown on the watch screen, however is not automatically sent to binoculars but i have to press one of the watch. I have reseted the watch and nothing changed. It seems like the watch goes in some sort of “standby” and is only receiving the data.

Exactly same problem here but with sig kilo 5 which worked flawlessly. Already tried everything and no success. It is very annoying, have you solved it?

 

[cainsef]

Hi, nothing changed after all the updates. Did a full reset to the watch and SiG, having the same result…

 

[Char'ed Cuterie]

Old school tag, I have this exact same issue using a Garmin Instinct 2X Solar Tactical paired to an older Sig KILO3000 BDX rangefinding binoculars.

Every time I range with the Sig, my watch updates the range and the dope on my watch is correct.

However, only 30% or so of the time does my watch send the DOPE back to the Sig. When it's working, it's great, I want it to do that every time reliably.

It's been like this for over a year now, probably been to 10ish matches and a handful of practice sessions where it behaves like this. Obviously I can glance down at my watch and that's what I've been doing, I would just prefer it to work normally all the time.

 

[cainsef]

I tried this with a Foretrex and it is the same story; it looks like the issue is with SIG and not necessary Garmin. Maybe will be a good idea to raise this to SIG support..

 

[Garu]

I was sooo happy with my setup but since this issue, I went back to using my good old kestrel instead of the expensive Garmin Tactix junk, so annoying

 

[drwood96]

Well, I just thought that's how it worked. Having the yardage in the bino would be nice, but it did hate me in the last couple of matches as I recorded the hold on an arm board on the clock.

@Garmin @DocUSMCRetired

 

[drwood96]

So, at the last match, My SIG6K displayed a solution from the Tactix 7. It must have been an update on the Garmin side, as I have not updated the 6Ks.

 

[Taylorbok]

So, at the last match, My SIG6K displayed a solution from the Tactix 7. It must have been an update on the Garmin side, as I have not updated the 6Ks.

on my 10K's you have to put the Bino's into external mode to get a solution from a different device.

 

[drwood96]

on my 10K's you have to put the Bino's into external mode to get a solution from a different device.

Correct, ABX mode. There was an issue where the solution was displayed on the watch but did not return to the binos, which appears to have been fixed with an update from Garmin.