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| My GPS is getting on in age and I think it would be time for a Lithium
Battery change.
Anyone know of any repair shops, or a manual on how to go about this.
Magellan will only sell me another GPS on it's Trade in Policy.
Thanks
BTC
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| Jim Townsend 2007-03-01, 3:33 pm |
| Bert wrote:
> My GPS is getting on in age and I think it would be time for a Lithium
> Battery change.
> Anyone know of any repair shops, or a manual on how to go about this.
> Magellan will only sell me another GPS on it's Trade in Policy.
> Thanks
> BTC
Do you mean the lithium backup battery?
They're supposed to last at least 10 years. I have a couple of
pieces of equipment that are older than 10 years and the lithium
backup batteries are still holding up great.
Unless you're losing your locations and waypoints etc when you
remove the AA cells, there's no need to replace the lithium battery.
Don't worry about it until at least 2010 :)
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| Ron Hunter 2007-03-03, 4:33 am |
| Bert wrote:
> My GPS is getting on in age and I think it would be time for a Lithium
> Battery change.
> Anyone know of any repair shops, or a manual on how to go about this.
> Magellan will only sell me another GPS on it's Trade in Policy.
> Thanks
> BTC
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The GPS 315 doesn't have a lithium battery, but should work well with
two of the disposable AA lithium batteries, at least mine does.
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| Jim Townsend 2007-03-03, 7:33 am |
| Ron Hunter wrote:
> Bert wrote:
> The GPS 315 doesn't have a lithium battery, but should work well with
> two of the disposable AA lithium batteries, at least mine does.
It's got one of those tiny 'button' type lithium cells tucked out of
sight hidden the circuitry. It holds the waypoints etc when the AA batteries
are removed. It's not user accessible, but the average life is 10+ yrs.
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| Thanks for the info guys.
What I want to do is change the Backup Battery in the 315. At its age it may
need it soon and I don't want to find out while I'm in the bush:-(( If
they used to be repairable there has to be an instruction manual somewhere
on how to break the case open.
Thanks
BTC
"Jim Townsend" <xjwt@mts.net> wrote in message
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> Ron Hunter wrote:
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> It's got one of those tiny 'button' type lithium cells tucked out of
> sight hidden the circuitry. It holds the waypoints etc when the AA
> batteries
> are removed. It's not user accessible, but the average life is 10+ yrs.
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| Jack Erbes 2007-03-03, 3:33 pm |
| Bert wrote:[color=darkred
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> Thanks for the info guys.
> What I want to do is change the Backup Battery in the 315. At its age it may
> need it soon and I don't want to find out while I'm in the bush:-(( If
> they used to be repairable there has to be an instruction manual somewhere
> on how to break the case open.
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> Thanks
> BTC
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> "Jim Townsend" <xjwt@mts.net> wrote in message
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The case is nott designed to be easily opened and reclosed. Note the
absence of screws. Here is a forum that has some comments from guys
that have tried or done it:
http://forums.topografix.com/index.php?showtopic=438
Sounds like it is going to be hard to get open, some cosmetic damage
will likely result, and you'll have to hot glue it back together.
A little too much pressure on something getting it open and you'll
create a brick or paperweight.
The battery is probably going to be soldered on (not in a quick change
socket) and soldering on a densely crowded multi-layer PCB raises more
issues.
Considering all that, I'd wait until the battery had failed (i.e., when
I could no longer replace the batteries quick enough to avoid losing my
data) before I opened it.
There used to be a web site where a guy in Europe somewhere had photos
of the non-working 3xx Magellan he opened up. I searched for that but
the link does not come up any more.
Good luck with that, let us know how it went.
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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| Ron Hunter 2007-03-04, 4:33 am |
| Jim Townsend wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
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> It's got one of those tiny 'button' type lithium cells tucked out of
> sight hidden the circuitry. It holds the waypoints etc when the AA batteries
> are removed. It's not user accessible, but the average life is 10+ yrs.
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I would never take the thing apart. I think I will have forgotten about
the old 315 long before the batter dies as I have an eXplorist 400 now.
The old 315, with disposable lithium batteries installed, sits in the
car console for emergency use.
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