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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | I was just on the water with Merkid and a pal, Tom when Tom asks how I like my Garmin 178c Sounder Unit..."No probs...great unit", I reply....must have jinxed myself b/c today it malfunctioned....I removed it and immediately heard water splashing around inside the unit...opened the unit and dumped out 3-4 tablespoons of water!!!
It's now open and drying on the kitchen counter....just hooked it back up and it is working better, but not 100%....
I admit, I'm not the best about putting the covers on my units...I may have learned my lesson....
Even still, shouldn't the rubber gasket in the unit prevent water from entering the system....others with this problem? |
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| Yes the gasket should keep the water out.Make shure it's dry and make shure gasket is put on correctly.GOOD LUCK |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Happened to me...Lowrance 332. On my first day of a week on Lake of the Woods too. Bummer. Lowrance does not do customer service on the weekends but after waiting for quite a while on the phone that monday morning, they told me they'd overnight me a new unit. Seemed like a tall order considering I was at Bay Store on Oak Island but sure enough there it was waiting for me when I got in that evening. So, no good excuse for a piece of marine gear under normal use to fail like that but their recovery was pretty impressive.
My guess is that no matter how good you put the gasket back in...it will fail again. Mine failed in a rainstorm and shorted out the electronics...what good is a gps/depthfinder you have to cover every time it rains?
The second 332 lowrance sent me did not fail and it's still going strong today. I just installed two 520s in my new boat so I'm sticking with the brand and hoping to never have this happen again and hoping lowrance corrected the issue.
I did learn a valuable lesson about all the eggs in one basket...if you are going to rely on one unit to serve as a gps and depth finder get a plan B. when my 332 failed, I had nothing. I used an ifinder w/ a chip and a map. luckily I know the area well and was able to get along just fine.
Good luck with your Garmin.
Jono
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Well, here is what I did...I opened the unit and dumped out the water from the back casing being sure to hold the unit glass side up to keep water off the circuit board as much as I could before I opened it...actually removed the screws while holding the glass side up...
Then I got some Q-tips and dabbed up all the water from the crevices inside the unit and off the circuit board...
Then I got a blow dryer, put on LOW and gently dried as best I could....
I let it sit overnight and took out to the garage and reconnected it this morning...I must've done a good deed at some point because it is actually working perfectly again.
That made my day at work a whole lot better.
I think I'll contact Garmin and have them send me out a new gasket...the manual says you can submerse it up to one meter for 30 minutes and it should be fine....hmmmmm...
If someone else comes across this problem, try what I did, it seemed to work. |
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