We suffered a bunch of broken battery cases. I was working in public safety and we received a shipment of new batteries from a manufacture. One of the problems consumers face is that not all AA batteries are physical the same dimension. They sent me a new unit, and a new unlock code for my City Navigator software.

On my second call Garmin gave me a return number and I sent the unit back to them. That person did not know that two of them could not be replaced. I tried the foil or metal shim a little, but I ended up breaking the contact with the circuit board.įirst time I called Garmin the person on the other end sent me new connectors and told me how to replace them. On one end the tabs can be replaced but on the other end they are connected to the printed circuit board.

I had to leave it on the windowsill with the battery door off.) I suspect that as long as any seals are kept clean/greased it will retain its quasi-waterproofness (which is a joke- it once took a minor splash and fogged up almost instantly. I regularly disassemble and repair laptops, etc and have experience soldering- the warranty is up, so I don't care about cracking it open for that reason. Has anyone found a way to repair the tabs or otherwise fix the problem? The unit is useless to me right now because it keeps shutting off. I can't believe I paid $500+ for this piece of crap that's now useless because Garmin couldn't design the battery terminals and battery compartment properly! I refuse to pay Garmin a penny to fix something a $5 squirt gun manufacturer can get right. It's a horribly unreliable solution- the unit keeps shutting off, and the poor connection also screws up the battery gauge. On the side of the compartment with unbroken tabs, I have to use another piece of tin foil because the battery doesn't make contact very well. One of my 76CSx's battery tabs broke pretty quickly after I started using 2.5AHr AA's, and I was fudging it by using a piece of tin foil between the battery terminal and the battery.

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