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Seeking tech info on LX7007
I replaced the battery in an LX-7007 Pro IGC about 4 years ago and I
only found one battery inside. As it turned out, I could not find the correct battery and so bought a couple of battery sockets from Amazon and removed/replaced the battery socket. It was not difficult to do. Prior to replacing the battery, my unit would be completely dead and needing to reload the databases before each flight. I never did like the thing and quickly replaced it with a ClearNav II. Now, if you're talking about a Garmin 396 which came from the factory in my Stemme, it has a rechargeable button battery buried deeply inside the unit. When it dies, the unit forgets where it is and will not reload the almanac. Garmin wanted $400 to replace the $2 battery but I found complete instructions, including pictures, on line. I had to remove t or 3 circuit cards but, other than delicate cables, it was a breeze. With the replacement battery it locked on much quicker than I would have imagined. Dan 5J On 2/8/21 10:43 AM, Moshe Braner wrote: Has anybody needed to replace the internal battery for the GPS?Â* What type of battery is it? The GPS battery presumably runs the real time clock in the GPS module. If this battery fails, when you start up the device the GPS screen will not show the correct time of day until signals from the GPS satellites are received.Â* Also the GPS screen will not show the previous lat/lon while it searches for the current location.Â* And it will probably take longer than normal to acquire a GPS location fix. This is distinct from the internal coin battery for the IGC security, which presumably also powers the memory that stores the user settings. It seems that on my unit BOTH batteries need replacement.Â* Does that make sense (about 11 years since factory)? |
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Seeking tech info on LX7007
The GPS Engine in LX7007 is a U-BLOX TIM-LP (from 2006) and it would
appear that the Battery is Integral with the engine, so you may need to replace the whole engine, which is obsolete, so a pin-compatible may be the answer. As you can't access the GPS engine without opening the case, this will invalidate any IGC files. Getting a quote from LX Navigation to replace both might be the better answer. On 08/02/2021 20:30, Dan Marotta wrote: I replaced the battery in an LX-7007 Pro IGC about 4 years ago and I only found one battery inside.Â* As it turned out, I could not find the correct battery and so bought a couple of battery sockets from Amazon and removed/replaced the battery socket.Â* It was not difficult to do. Prior to replacing the battery, my unit would be completely dead and needing to reload the databases before each flight.Â* I never did like the thing and quickly replaced it with a ClearNav II. Now, if you're talking about a Garmin 396 which came from the factory in my Stemme, it has a rechargeable button battery buried deeply inside the unit.Â* When it dies, the unit forgets where it is and will not reload the almanac.Â* Garmin wanted $400 to replace the $2 battery but I found complete instructions, including pictures, on line.Â* I had to remove t or 3 circuit cards but, other than delicate cables, it was a breeze. With the replacement battery it locked on much quicker than I would have imagined. Dan 5J On 2/8/21 10:43 AM, Moshe Braner wrote: Has anybody needed to replace the internal battery for the GPS?Â* What type of battery is it? The GPS battery presumably runs the real time clock in the GPS module. If this battery fails, when you start up the device the GPS screen will not show the correct time of day until signals from the GPS satellites are received.Â* Also the GPS screen will not show the previous lat/lon while it searches for the current location.Â* And it will probably take longer than normal to acquire a GPS location fix. This is distinct from the internal coin battery for the IGC security, which presumably also powers the memory that stores the user settings. It seems that on my unit BOTH batteries need replacement.Â* Does that make sense (about 11 years since factory)? |
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Seeking tech info on LX7007
On 2/3/21 8:34 AM, kinsell wrote:
On 2/3/21 8:04 AM, Moshe Braner wrote: Can anybody send me a copy of the "LXe" PC software that originally came with the LX? Are versions of this software and versions of the hardware forwards and backwards compatible?Â* Is it worth having? The airports and airspace databases need updates over time to stay accurate.Â* Have there been updates?Â* How can I get something newer than what's stored in it now?Â* If I can't, can I override the old info for specific airports with info I manually put into my turnpoints file? Thanks for any info. I was just searching for LXe to try to support an old Colibri logger, and found it on the LXNavigation website.Â* Version 3.5.1.1 Airports and Airpace database was not there, but found a 2014 version on an old computer.Â* I can email that to you. LXe and the database actually installed OK on w Win10 computer, but complained about not finding any COMM ports.Â* Those can be added manually on Win10.Â* haven't tried accessing the logger yet, but it may actually still be usable on Win10. Dave To follow up, LXe actually still runs on a Win10 computer, had to install their special USB driver, then manually create a COMM port from inside Device Manager. Database files they provide are all German, African, or European, so you'll need to provide your own data. |
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