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MaFt
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 Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ride4smilesjonny wrote: |
Please, a word to the wise, as you are obviously knowledgable enough to carry out this procedure please please for anyone else who tries this - DONT FORGET YOU CANT STICK NORMAL BATTERIES IN ONCE YOUVE DONE THIS OR THE LIL OL' I3 WILL FRY EM UP!
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unless he cleverly puts a switch on it to turn the charger circuit on/off? |
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ride4smilesjonny
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Location: teesside
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | ride4smilesjonny wrote: |
Please, a word to the wise, as you are obviously knowledgable enough to carry out this procedure please please for anyone else who tries this - DONT FORGET YOU CANT STICK NORMAL BATTERIES IN ONCE YOUVE DONE THIS OR THE LIL OL' I3 WILL FRY EM UP!
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unless he cleverly puts a switch on it to turn the charger circuit on/off? |
But would they remember to switch it??? :P
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Skippy
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Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | do any companies make a motorbike-specific sat nav unit? |
The TomTom Rider is the only one I can think of which is specifically aimed at the bike market.
Garmin do a number of units which are bike friendly (ie waterproof) like the Quest and StreetPilot 2610 and 27xx series (not to mention the now discontinued SPIII and GPS-V).
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mikealder
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Joined: Jan 14, 2005
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Location: Blackpool , Lancs
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| ride4smilesjonny wrote: | Please, a word to the wise, as you are obviously knowledgable enough to carry out this procedure please please for anyone else who tries this - DONT FORGET YOU CANT STICK NORMAL BATTERIES IN ONCE YOUVE DONE THIS OR THE LIL OL' I3 WILL FRY EM UP!
Mike, will you pm when you have finished, would be a nice little mod for mine, depending on room tho, as ive used up what little inernal space was there with the socket! |
Top advice for trying to recharge normal batteries, something I should have mentioned - IT IS DANGEROUS - Either way I will post the results - if it works or not - I hope to use the space vacated by the normal AA cells to achieve this and not need to break into the device too much - I only bought it to "play with" but so far I have been very impressed with the device - OK its not in the same league as the heavy weights - but it is very good at what it does - Mike |
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VEGG
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Hi I noticed youve added a jack for a ear piece and from lookin at some pics can you still fit the batteries in as it looks as though it goes into the batt compartment? i get confused soooo easily :D |
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ride4smilesjonny
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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yup sure can, they is only regular AA batt's not super stretch fec*ing limo batt's!!
Just kidding, aye ye can, when you open unit the aux plug fixes to the cover, the batt compartment seperates away when you open unit, it stays on the other side of the i3, dead easy to do!
PM me to arrang pricing for me to do it if your unsure, ive done two for jack the kipper after his mate ballsed one up!
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