madajoax Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 I am basically satisfied with my Garmin GPSMap60 (display with 4 levels of gray shadings), bought in 2005. However I'm facing one problem: every now and then the display is polluted by horizontal, parallel lines, some 2 mm apart from each other. This makes reading almost impossible. I've tried: changing the batteries, power cycling, shaking the thing (bicycle rides on rough roads), squeezing and twisting (like a wet towel - and advice I received on another forum). Nothing works, yet the problem disappears after a while. I'd hate to be caught in foggy mountains with such a thing. Any hint? Madajoax Quote
+JSWilson64 Posted May 13, 2008 Posted May 13, 2008 I am basically satisfied with my Garmin GPSMap60 (display with 4 levels of gray shadings), bought in 2005. However I'm facing one problem: every now and then the display is polluted by horizontal, parallel lines, some 2 mm apart from each other. This makes reading almost impossible. I've tried: changing the batteries, power cycling, shaking the thing (bicycle rides on rough roads), squeezing and twisting (like a wet towel - and advice I received on another forum). Nothing works, yet the problem disappears after a while. I'd hate to be caught in foggy mountains with such a thing. Any hint? Madajoax My Legend used to do that when I would ride my bike with it. I assumed it was due to vibration. I gently bent the battery clips to hold the batteries a bit tighter, and added something (some thin foam, I think) between the battery cover and the batteries, to hold them down tighter. Problem went away. Quote
madajoax Posted May 13, 2008 Author Posted May 13, 2008 I gently bent the battery clips to hold the batteries a bit tighter, and added something (some thin foam, I think) between the battery cover and the batteries, to hold them down tighter. Problem went away. I'll try that... the next time the problem occurs. It has just - as several times previously - vanished by itself. Madajoax Quote
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