GyroRon
Former Gyro know it all
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2003
- Messages
- 16,888
- Location
- Fort Mill South Carolina
- Aircraft
- Vans RV4 / Dominator 582 Ultrawhite
- Total Flight Time
- ALOT
Went and dug out my old trusty Garmin pilot III out of the cabinet last saturday to use for my flight to the carolina barnstormers event and noticed some corrosion on the outside of the unit. It wouldn't power up either. So I take the battery cover off and notice one or more of the batteries had spilled out its contents and leaked into the device, ruining it. Heck I couldn't even get the batteries out of it, they were frozen in with the corrosion.
This is the second unit Ive lost to batteries going bad. Lost a nice color 295 a few years back the same way.
Its my fault I guess because the batteries were expired. They were labelled good till 2014.
Anyways, I threw the old 295 in the trash once I knew it was no good, but afterwards someone told me I should have contacted duracell, because they guarantee their batteries will never leak out, and duracell would have bought me a new GPS. I am wondering if thats true. I haven't thrown the pilot 3 away just yet in case there is any truth to that
This is the second unit Ive lost to batteries going bad. Lost a nice color 295 a few years back the same way.
Its my fault I guess because the batteries were expired. They were labelled good till 2014.
Anyways, I threw the old 295 in the trash once I knew it was no good, but afterwards someone told me I should have contacted duracell, because they guarantee their batteries will never leak out, and duracell would have bought me a new GPS. I am wondering if thats true. I haven't thrown the pilot 3 away just yet in case there is any truth to that