Re: [Paddlewise] Size DOES matter!

The question was raised about the relative ability of the battery box to
hold out water.  I know, I brought it up, but another Garmin unit was
described as not waterproof.  I believe that not even splash resistant
was mentioned.  Having my Etrex sitting beside me as I read the post, I
decided to do an experiment.  Out to the kitchen for a bowl of water.
First test had the Etrex in the water for thirty seconds, as fully
submerged as I could get it.  The battery box was fully submerged, but
the top end of the unit wanted to float!  I'm going to have to check
that in deeper water.  Thirty seconds later pull it out, dry off the
outside to prevent splash from skewing the results.  No water inside the
battery box that I can find.
    Second test, five minutes.  Same result.  As far as I can tell no
water got into the battery box at all.  I pulled both batteries out to
make sure.  Now, this was five minutes at maybe three inches of depth,
but it increases my confidence in the unit to withstand the occasional
roll.  And yes, I did turn the Etrex on afterwards to make sure it still
works.  If it hadn't I would be talking to Garmin right now instead of
everyone here.  I would speak here second.

Mike

--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a
great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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