TomTom unit not charging while in car

mogette · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 31, 2004 Posts: 7

For a couple of years now I have been using a HP ipaq h1940 PDA in conjunction with TomTom (oh dear, can't find whether it's TT2 or TT3 - does that matter?). It's a rectangular silver box anyway. (Look how non-techie I am!)

It is bluetooth connection, but when in the car I use a cradle for the ipaq that plugs into the cigar lighter, and has leads for charging both ipaq and TT unit.

Recently I have realised that the silver TT unit is not charging when in the car. So it will run for about two hours, but then the satellite reading is finished and I am on my own, navigationwise. In the evening I have to recharge it from the mains. The ipaq on the other hand remains fully charged by virtue of being in the in-car cradle and does not need further mains recharging later.

Is this merely a problem with the lead between TT unit and cradle? If so, how can I get a new lead? I am reluctant to shell out the £50+ I paid in the first place to buy an entire new in-car cradle.

Or is it some problem within the silver rectangular TT unit itself? Failed battery? Again, what can I do to remedy that?

Would be hugely grateful for a solution to this problem...

Angela

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject:

It could be a lead problem... Can you power the iPAQ off that lead?

(and do you know that your BT GPS was supposed to have broken down two years ago? They don't normally last that long)
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Eldar · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

Trevor1234 · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject:

Hi mogette
Ok, so your PDA charges all right from your Cigar Lighter but your GPS receiver does not.

I do not have the Ipaq 1940 but I do have the 2210 which uses a similar cradle. I should imagine that your trouble almost certainly lies in the lead from your cradle to the GPS receiver or inside the actual cradle/GPS receiver output.

It would be a simple test for an electrician.
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lbendlin · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

mogette · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 31, 2004 Posts: 7

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

mogette · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 31, 2004 Posts: 7

Oh my, Lutz !

That was the sort of language I can understand, so I riffled around in the boxes and found the pretty black and white-striped lead and its adapter. It's something I hardly ever use, so I had forgotten about it...

Anyway, using that, I went out to the car and tried charging the ipaq through the lead that normally powers the TT unit, and no joy at all. Put the ipaq in the cradle in the normal way, and the charging light began winking merrily.

So I guess that narrows it down to cable or connection, nothing to do with the TT unit itself. Smile

Angela

lbendlin · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject:

Good. So the next step would be to measure the lead out (to see if the cable is broken). Otherwise it may be the socket in the iPAQ holder. Any chance you can do that?

Anything else you changed in the setup recently?
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mogette · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 31, 2004 Posts: 7

"Measure the lead out"?? That can't mean with a tape measure, surely. Embarassed

In case it means feeling along every inch of it carefully, I have just done that. Can't feel any evidence of breakage though.

No I haven't changed anything recently. In fact it has been behaving like this for a few months but I have taken some time to work out the pattern of behaviour and to realise what it implies.

Many thanks again

Angela

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