Bruce m. Conkey
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Registered: May 2016
Location: Palatka, FL
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Mr. Howard you have experienced one of the many good reasons to keep your equipment updated. Through updates Garmin can control and change many minor settings such as the charging rate. These changes are never really advertised but they compensate for changes of electronic circuits in the devices to allow physical changes they have to make to work and be compatible with our equipment.
The regulation that brought about the deep discharging of batteries before they are transported caused several minor changes to take place. It was a year or so ago and as someone that sells thee products it was frustrating but understandable. Imagine selling a new product that has been working fine then to find out all of a sudden it was taking 24 hours for the battery to charge in a brand new product and several cycles for it to fully charge. After answering several customer complaints and discussion with Garmin. The reason was discovered and a need to change a minor output in the charging circuit was needed. That was done with an update and the problem went away. Just like future electronic changes to the equipment, might make what we have today in the handheld not function as we normally have seen it done. The engineers go to work and a minor update solves the problem. When you updated your product you can read the list of updates that have taken place over time. You can see and identify the one that affected the charging circuit. Glad you have everything working. Have some happy hunting and Happy Thanksgiving that is just around the corner.
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