Re: Garmin 60Cx possible design flaw - units break like crazy

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20060627T164207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Domagoj Malovic" <domagoj.malovicBRISIsamoBRISI@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I would really appreciate if other people with similar problems would speak
up. I think we need to contact Garmin and help them see that this is not
just an odd problem but a flaw of some kind with at least the 60Cx units.

Why not ask Garmin if engineering ever looked at your units and
figured out what was causing the intermittent?

Normally with intermittent problems its very difficult for the company
to reproduce the problem. You've certainly done your part to give
them enough units with the same failure mode. They should have gotten
lucky and been able to observe one unit acting up.

Personally, I would never hard-mount a gps to a bike. I plan to make
a sandwich of two thin stiff layers (like that 1/4" thick plastic
corrugated board) with a 1" piece of soft open-cell foam glued between
them. I'll probably wrap the whole thing lightly with mylar packing
tape as a fall-back in case the glue unbonds or the foam rips. The
gps then gets attacked to the top surface and a handle-bar clamp to
the bottom. That should keep the GPS from being assaulted by all the
road vibrations.

Even better isolation if you make the top plate heavy, e.g. a steel
plate.

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