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Hmmm...Ive never missed having an A/C adapter -- I suppose cuz mine had
fully charged batteries, and they are never allowed to go dead? (Yet
another good excuse to go flying: "Honey, we NEED to charge up the GPS
batteries!")

I found the Lowrance folks to be very helpful, too.
--
Jay

Jerry Malin wrote in message
news:39E77C5C.78702E95@attglobal.net...
> Jay:
>
>
> > I think the best part of the Lowrance is that it came with EVERYTHING --
> > extra batteries, cigarette lighter adapter, mounting clamp -- the works.
> > As I recall, I would have had to buy most of that from Garmin, which
really
> > added to the cost.
>
> How about "ALMOST everything!" When I got my Airmap 300 at the AOPA
Convention
> last October, it had dead batteries and no way to charge the Ni-MH battery
until
> we got back to the plane in two days hence. I had no way of learning how
to use
> it before the trip home. What it was lacking is the AC adapter. The next
day at
> the show, the kind folks at Lowrance gave me fresh batteries and I found
an AC
> adapter at another vendor.
>
> The AC adapter lets me do a lot of flight planning on the GPS at the house
with
> bearings and distances. It also lets me charge the battery pack before
flying.
> (Some of the rentals at our FBO do not have the cigarette adapter
connected.)
>
> But like the man from Lowrance said, the AC adapter does not fit in the
case.
>
> Jerry Malin
> N82045
>

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