GPS Shut Down

[Smelly]

Hi Team.

My Garmin 292 GPS shuts down power intermittently when out on water.

Have wired up unit at home on boat with same battery and has nto shut down after 2 hours ON.

But, while out on water, it keeps shutting OFF.

Any clues?

Smelly

[seatime]

loose connection, wire inside unit? boat movement may be enough to cause disconnection?
power supply, lead, connection or fuse?
can you test on another boat on the water to confirm if it's the unit itself?

[finding_time]

As Gelsec has said it will be a loose wire for sure and i would start at the inline fuse if any moisture has got to this the spring becomes slack and rust builds up on the contacts causing intermitant lose of power other areas to look at is the switch if it is wired with its own isolation switch.

Ian

[boof]

i have same problem with my chart plotter shuts down . when you goto and then switch to road . i will check wires cheers

[Smelly]

thanks boys -

sorry for late relpy - just releasedfron hospital - surgery.

Will troubleshoot and get back toy ou asap.

Smelly

[Roughasguts]

Play with your fuse conector smelly, clean it up or get a new one, sometimes the plastic molding don't hold enough pressure on the fuse, and can't maintain a good contact.

[charleville]

My Garmin handheld did the same. Then I discovered that the cigarette lighter socket that I had it plugged into was falling apart inside.

Replaced the socket and no problems since.

[Roughasguts]

Oh yeah watch those cigarette lighter sockets.
I pulled the phone charger out of mine in the car, 30 seconds later there was smoke comming out the dash.

I stopped the car ran to the garage disconected the battery, Too late. Melted wires through out the wirring loome, I re-wired half of it, still had trouble with the A/C and turn indicator. With me neck injury standing on me head wasn't fun so off to the auto leccy 5 days and 700 bucks later.

So heres my advice that metal nut when it comes loose will short the positive and negative, My fuse didn't blow just melted together.
So put some silastic on that metal nut and tape up the wire conectors behind the lighter socket. Once that nut falls on those open conectors, your car, boat could catch fire as mine did.

[mark221263]

Are you doing anything when it shutdown? starting outboard etc etc. If you have a poor battery or connection the voltage will drop significantly during cranking or other periods of high load.

Cheers Mark

[Barnacle Billy]

i think Smelly uses two batts.

one for crank - one for accessories - such as the gps..

I wonder is Smelly has both in good cond..?

[Roughasguts]

A gps can work on a pretty dead battery as far as I know. It doesn't draw stuff all they can run for 8 hours straight or intermitedly for days just on AA batteries.

But it might pay to pull the weather proof plug out the back very carfully, and clean that up, it gets that green wicking gunge from copper corroding.

[rick k]

forget all this electrical stuff, how has he changed his rating to 'Banned'

Well done!!!

[murf]

forget all this electrical stuff, how has he changed his rating to 'Banned'

Well done!!!

Where is smelly???

Murf

[Barnacle Billy]

Glad you're happy RICK.

[Barnacle Billy]

Play with your fuse conector smelly, clean it up or get a new one, sometimes the plastic molding don't hold enough pressure on the fuse, and can't maintain a good contact.

Guts and others,

WHy does my unit work when at home - I played with the fuse, wiggled it, replaced fuse, pulled on wires, etc, - nothing - unit still remains on - at home.

How woudl my wiggling, etc at home differ from when out at sea?