GPSIII+ takes H2O into batteryhousing.

[fireboomer]

Made a mistake on my side too, should admit that for a start ;-)
That done here comes the info:

I have my GPSIII+ mounted on my bike with a touratech bracket. It isn't really protected from the weather so it gets wet quite regulary according to Belgian weather.
The GPS has been on the bike non stop for about 6 months.
The mistake I made was to leave batteries in it all the time. Wich wasn't needed because it can take power through the adaptor. Auch...

Well I just took it of to start playing with the software I bought.
As you can guess the whole housing for batterys was wet. :-((( My luck was that the batterys didn't start leaking yet. :-)))

I can imagin the moisture with the batteries is not a good combination. What would be good solutions? I can't see an O-ring or something else. I am considering some sort di-electric grease to secure the powersupply and avoid sparkling, oxidation,....
But that won't keep moisture from entering.

Has anybody else come accros this problem?

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