That's Interesting Richard but my pilot lll is over 15 years old and i have
never changed the internal battery,
I have always made sure the double AA battery's are fresh and run from the
aircraft power for all my flying,
it still holds routes in its memory and works very well, for the little
money i would get for it i will continue
to keep it as a backup,
Ivor
G-IVER
On 14 September 2011 08:36, Richard Lamprey <lamprey.richard@gmail.com>wrote:
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> The Pilot III was a great GPS, but had its limitations. The most serious
> being the reliance on its internal lithium battery to retain waypoints,
> routes etc. When this tiny battery ran down (Garmin said it should last
> about 3-5 years), the GPS lost everything. So if you haednt backed it up to
> PC on Mapsource or PCX5, you were in trouble. The battery is readily
> available in shops (it is standard penny type battery, I forget the code)
> but changing this battery is very difficult, as it is soldered into the
> board by tiny wires. You have to open the GPS right up, and have a
> soldering iron handy. With mine, Garmin reommended I send it back to an
> authorized agent in UK for replacement, but I live in Africa so this is not
> possible in our postal service run by thieves. So I did a replacement
> myself with a soldering iron, it did OK for a couple of years, then on the
> next replacement the wires came out of the board, and it really was time to
> bin-it. The new Garmins dont need the!
> internal battery any more. I would not get a Pilot III again, when you
> have the 96 available or 196, or 296 etc.
> Richard, Kenya, Europa 5Y-LRY
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=352243#352243
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