<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000066">Yes, let AvMap know. In the '80s a then-called mini-computer that my employer was responsible for burnt up. The Bureau of Standards analysis identified three individually trivial changes to the power plug from the original design which combined into a real danger. I hope that AvMap wants to see it and replace it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000066"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000066">Alan,,, n4lbl</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Scott Miller via aprssig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 5/8/2016 4:50 PM, Andrew Pavlin via
aprssig wrote:<br>
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<div 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 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 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>Anyone else ever
have a "feature" like this?</div>
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Pavlin, KA2DDO</div>
<div dir="ltr">author of YAAC<br>
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