patm
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Well you should not have to unplug the battery to avoid battery drain at the rate it does drain.
I mean all batteries including those that are unplugged self-drain.
I can shut down my cell phone, my MP3 player, my tablet and it maintains the battery levels for months.
Anyway, I fully shut down my fully charged Navigator V 21 days ago and the battery today sat at what looks like a 2/3 charge level.
Someone ought to fire the engineers at Garmin! They probably got them from Funkies 'R Us.
I understand but when you think that when the Nav V originally came out in 2013, it was based on state of the art technology from 2010 or earlier.
There aren't many cell phones from that era still running. How many 10 YO designs still run today?
The reasons they're still around are they're rugged and reliable. Could they be improved? Sure.