Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Ansgar Ia.
Posts: 791

I cant get mine to take a charge

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Chad Brigham
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St. Ansgar, Iowa 50472
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: north dakota
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make sure the charging groov in coller is cleand out. if you cut a piece of bicycle innertube and slip over it it will keep it clean when in use. take you pocket knife and clean out groov good and blow out. it is very touchy. that is the only down fall i have seen with the garmin

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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: St. Ansgar Ia.
Posts: 791

I have cleaned them out washed them with alcohol, scraped the contact points, tried different chargers nothing!

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Chad Brigham
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Registered: May 2008
Location: southcentral arkansas
Posts: 1571

i had trouble figuring them out to begin with but i found if i come home and run the collar charging part under the garden hose( clean it out with water) and go hook them up, they start. i think they have to fit all the way down.

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Southwest Missouri
Posts: 2057

It drives me nuts sometimes too. I have always got mine to charge , but it nearly always takes some tinkering around. I've cleaned them , shined them up , ran water on them and even said a few choice words.

So far they have always worked , but I expect any time they will fail to light up. It definately has room for improvement in design , but as so many have already stated , the Garmin is still well worth the headache of the charger.

The problem is corroded or weak contact points. I hope its something that Garmin is working to fix on future collars.

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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 2713

The problem is usually not the contact points. It is that dirt gets back in the groove that the charger sits in and want allow the charger to slide all the way back. On mine I took a file and file the plastic on the charger down so the contact points can touch without having to clean the dirt out of it each time.

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