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Damaging Garmin with Marine radios and Motorola's
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:26 pm
by doghunter
I have not had any trouble in over a year with burning up a unit. I think they may have got the problem fixed.
Our group purchased 4 new units this year and they are all still doing good.
Anyone else notice this or are there sill people out there having trouble.
Re: Damaging Garmin with Marine radios and Motorola's
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:29 pm
by eROKv
garmin did add some technical thingamabob to help minimize this issue, but it can still be a problem with radios that are jacked up way past 25 watts (i know many guys who do this to their radios).
the only problem is that if you buy the older model 220 new (there are lots of them still floating around out there) you have no idea what the date of manufacture is, so there is a possibility that you might have an older production unit that didnt get the hardware improvement.
the only way to be absolutely sure is to buy the 320.
Re: Damaging Garmin with Marine radios and Motorola's
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:23 pm
by jns9661
so have they fixed the garmin 320's as far as the marine radio burning them up?