eMap open
eMap with cover open Two ribbon cables connect the halves. the white cable has a connection socket to the display board. the copper ribbon seen to have been glued and held in place by a cross member of the base. behind the yellow tape to the left on the above picture,
Some place along the the area that this picture show. Next step is to remove the display board to see if there are connection that matches the cable.
Garmin Battery length solution.
I use
a 1/4 inches diameter / .035 wire diameter spring. I cut about two to three
turns and insert the spring under the flat spring chip. I first used this idea
for my Garmin II+. The II+ came with one spring for each battery. Note the
ribbon for batteries remover. Some one posted the idea on the
sic.geo.satellite-nav news group.
Garmin bicycle mount fix.
I repaired my bicycle mount using two end of a hacksaw blade. For a broken hold down screw, or to beef this area up so that you don't have this failure.
Grind a hack blade to the shape of the bottom piece in the picture.The left side has to allow for the other part of the mount to slide pass. Do this while the blade is whole and break off the part that is top in the picture.
The ear repair should be done on a milling machine. However if both ears are broken, both ears can be filed so that a step of about one thirty second of an inch is form and a hacksaw blade can be ground to cover both ears using a self tapping flat head screw in the existing slot. (A file will not work, the blades are tempered.)
Later I machine a complete mount from aluminum, It took more than 20 hours to machine three brackets and an a fixture to hold the piece for repeat cuts. A picture is below. Garmin has promise to make the mount stronger.
Power adapter and data cable made from a 12 to 3 volts car adapter.
The Garmin plug was made in my home machine shop. The hours to make is a lot more than the value of purchasing it from Garmin. The advantage is that I have less bulk when I only want to use it for power.
