<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>I contacted AvMap, and they were very fast in responding to me. Apparently this is the first time this has ever happened to any of their products, and my unit is 4 years old. They are very eager to see the unit and find out what the cause was. <div><br></div><div>So I have to say I am quite happy with their service response for an out-of-warranty device.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO </div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Scott Miller <scott@opentrac.org> <br>Date: 05/08/2016 9:54 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Andrew Pavlin <spam8mybrain@yahoo.com>, TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Flaming AvMap G6 <br><br>
I would talk to AvMap first. Any time a device catches fire, the
manufacturer SHOULD be interested in hearing about it. They might
want a chance to do a postmortem on it without it having been
subsequently messed with.<br>
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Scott<br>
N1VG<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/8/2016 4:50 PM, Andrew Pavlin via
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462750817002_3692" dir="ltr">I
always wondered why the AvMap G6 was considered a hot
property, and I found out today when mine caught fire.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462750817002_3694" dir="ltr">It was
doing a lousy job of syncing up to satellites to get a fix,
and then the fix was really bad (always off the road).
Suddenly, I heard a frying sound and clouds of
vision-obscuring acidic smoke poured out of the back of the
thing. A bit of a shock to happen on the Interstate highway,
but I kept my cool, pulled the cigarette lighter power cord
for the GPS, rolled down the window to clear the smoke out of
the car., then slid the power switch on the device to OFF,
took it off the magnetic mount bracket, and unplugged the
cable to my Kenwood D710.<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462750817002_3730" dir="ltr">I
haven't had a chance yet to open the GPS up, so I'm wondering
if anything is salvageable. If it was just the battery going
bad, can I get another battery, or is the rest of the
circuitry toast?<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462750817002_3787">Anyone else ever
have a "feature" like this?</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462750817002_3789" dir="ltr">Andrew
Pavlin, KA2DDO</div>
<div dir="ltr">author of YAAC<br>
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