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September 1, 2003
Okay, so tonight I managed to smoke my GPS. The cable is made per the published pinouts as well as those found online in various places. I hook the GPS up to the car for power, it lights up, and slowly gets warm. Peering inside, one of the ICs now has a smallish hole in it. Suck. The power was obviously hooked up correctly, as it lit up. The voltage specified for it is 10v to 35v (or something like that) so that’s right. I guess it’s time to buy a new GPS. There’s another $70 down the hole. Suck. I did manage to find a 6.4GB hard drive for my grandparents computer. That means I can take the 120GB that I got from Best Buy back and save a bit of money.
This is just getting frustrating. I do things right and they blow up in my face. Ah well.
No warranty?
It’s 10 years old, and I bought it off of eBay six months ago. It worked great up until now. :(
I just went out and spent US$190 on a new Garmin eTrex Vista… Hopefully that will take care of my needs.
Not to say you don’t need one…but what do you use it for? We have one at work that we use for mapping wells on the mill site…I dunno…just a curious question :)
It’s more of a fun toy, something I’d like to have whenever I’m away from civilization. It’s an easy to ensure I always get back to my start point. That, and it gives me an easy way to go war driving, geocaching, whatever.
However…
I haven’t opened it yet. I’m reconsidering the expense of another $200, when I still need new tires, an oil change, to pay my cable bill, and pay for the G5. I feel so fscking overwhelmed right now… Maybe it’s because I’m ridiculously busy right now, with a good number of people counting on me to do things. I’ve been this way for the last two weeks now. Lots of friends need help, personal and professional work to do, etc.
Okay, I’ll stop bitching now before I turn this into ‘one of those’ posts.