{"id":3267,"date":"2019-05-21T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2019-05-21T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:33:12","slug":"garmin-nuvi-255w-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Nuvi 255W (?) Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of buying a GPS for boat, why not use my old &#8220;travelling&#8221; GPS (first one we bought)?\u00a0 Perhaps not ideal (why not? fishfinder with chartplotter way better)<\/p>\n<p>Butit won&#8217;t turn on.\u00a0 Was at least 3 years since last used.\u00a0 But this stuff doesn&#8217;t rot!<\/p>\n<p>Foind that the connector (mini-USB, grrrr&#8230;.) on the back is a bit flaky; as you push it in the 4mm or so it goes in, goes from &#8220;no connection&#8221; to &#8220;connection&#8221; back to &#8220;no connection&#8221;; so have to NOT push it all the way in.\u00a0 This needs fixing (perhaps something that prevents it going in all the way?)<\/p>\n<p>Using my new KeySight DMM, there is current flowing when connected to a 12VDC wall wart.\u00a0 Started at 40mA, over time is dropping (4 hours later, is 16mA).\u00a0 Likely charging battery?\u00a0 But it does this with battery disconnected???<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of buying a GPS for boat, why not use my old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-my-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}