Needed: Boatie with Garmin GPS unit Onboard

[Roughasguts]

Billy, I would be a dud conection either fuse holder or where it goes in to the back of the unit, those little pins and the sockets they go in to corode after a while.

Clean them up with some solvent, get the green stuff off.

Also hook up it's power supply straight to the battery, less static interferance from the motor and other electrics then.

I would also replace the fuse holder, the little spring gets useless after a bit of corosion and won't hold tension against that plastic holder, sometimes they get to weak as well when the boyonet fitting wears out.

You could road test the unit and stick it in the car for a few runs to work and back.

[newchum]

billy,
to simulate running conditions you would need to trace the wires for the gps from the battery to the gps and then move up tug on them if the gps shuts down and you can turn it back on straight away , i think you have loose connection , if it is powered from a fuse panel check the main power lead that feeds the panel is not loose

[Barnacle Billy]

ok. stand by