![]() ![]() He pulled the plug apart and found that the 4th and 5th pins of the USB cable were shorted together. Not wanting to lug around multiple chargers, he decided to see what the heck was going on with his GPS unit. The unit still thought it was connected to a PC, and refused to perform any GPS-related functions since its file system was tied up. However, a problem arose when he tried hooking the Magellan up to a different power supply. When connected to a PC, it sensed the connection and allowed its file system to be mounted, just as it was intended to do. When connected to the Magellan adapter, the GPS unit charged as you would expect. It seems that his Magellan GPS unit is pretty finicky when it comes to power supplies. Hackaday reader recently shared a simple hack he put together via our Flickr photostream.
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