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Montana 700 charging issues using AMPS mount

Mogu

Hi everyone,

I have a montana 700 that was working fine until some time ago. When placed in the AMPS mount in my motorcycle, I can see the battery icon charging, but the battery doesn't charge. In fact, it will get down to 0. If I charge the Montana vía USB, It charges well. 

My AMPS mount is connected to battery and every other charger works fine (like the one I use to charge my smartphone while riding).

Any suggestion?

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    First, if you actually have a 700i, I would recommend updating the subject to reflect that.  The team will close references to non-inreach units in short order.

    Also, my 700i has ceased to reliably charge in the motorcycle mount as well.  I don't know if it will make it through this year without being replaced by something android auto related.  sad, because I really don't think android auto is better, it just fails less than garmin.

  • 0 in reply to BigLew55

    Hi, thanks for the reply.

    It's the 700 without the inreach.

    Today I did a little test. I cleaned the pogo points with WD40 contact cleaner and pushed them gently to ensure the contact cleaner reaches everything in the pogo pin. 

    Then I cleaned also the pins in the unit. Then went to do a little route to test it and in 40 min it went from 86% to 89% aprox. It's slow but at least it did charge.

    I'll try again cleaning again and going to an offroad route to test it properly. I'm a bit disappointed because I had to change the rubber bands because the unit was shuting down and now this with the amps cardle just two years later.