Garmin quit

[Fastbruce]

Hello, on the way to Catalina my Garmin suddenly went black and got a loud alarm. I think the alarm said speed exceeded but we were only going 10 knots. I managed to get it up again and went to original settings . All is fine now . Any ideas why this happened?

 

[trailertrawlerkismet]

FastBruce:

I don't see what year or size boat you have? The reason I mention this because on the older R27's, R25's and maybe others (ours was a 2012 R27) the mast folded straight forward. There is an rubber O ring in the radar connector that if gone bad would let water into the inside of the connection. Some times the O ring would be missing. In either case the water penetration would work a number on the GPS, causing the screen to go black....this happened to us. I had to replace the connector, spray dielectric grease on the connection and make sure I had the rubber O ring. This may or may not be your situation but worth checking out.

Jim F

 

[scross]

Second what Jim said. You want to store the boat with the radar mast up, not folded, any time you are not trailering the boat. Garmin checked & fixed our connection at the 2016 Rendezvous - no charge!
Also, have you updated the software to the latest version? Lots of threads here on how to do that.

 

[Cutwater28GG]

completely seperate; could be low battery volts on the house batteries. you will get black screen and weird errors from entire NMEA network with low volts.

 

[Fastbruce]

Thanks guys! I’ll check the connection asap. Ist time using the board, very helpful
Bruce and Debbie Elkind 2014 r27 Morning light.