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.<\/p>\n
This is just getting frustrating. I do things right and they blow up in my face. Ah well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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