Garmin Gps 12

[Barnacle Billy]

My Garmin GPS 292 shuts off every time while underway at sea- but does not at home with boat on trialer.

WHy woudl this be so?

[Barnacle Billy]

The reason I ask is because i had my GPS 12 for about 10 months and all of a sudden it starts turning off it it got the slightest bump! As you can imagine, fishing in a 16ft tinnie trying to hold the thing still whilst going up and down was just a trifle annoying, I took it back and they replaced it with a so called 'new' one although i have my suspicions it was a reconditioned one as the internal screen was lopsided to the frame, and now, after 2 months it is doing it again, it is bloody annoying as i live in Ballina and have to drive to the gold coast each time. I treat it really carefully and maybe ive just got a dud!

Sean, Did you solve this problem of shut down on your GPS?

If so, what do u think the reason was?

[whiteman]

My 12 sometimes shuts itself off when I hit a wave in my little tinny. And they are not too water resistant as I have to clean the terminals every now and then and I make sure I take the batteries out between uses because of the threat of corrosion. Use rechargables. It's no chartplotter but still great for inshore work. Google oziexplorer for interface software.

[onerabbit]

I used to really like my g12, especially the way the bread-crumb trail always spun around so the direction you were going was at the top, pity they didn't carry that particular feature on to the g72.

Unfortunately my g12 did a big swan dive out of it's cradle one day during a bit of a hectic bar crossing.( on the way out, bugger )..........thus the need for the g72.

Muzz