Replaced GPS receiver battery

[tomc]

My gps was beginning to take several minutes to find the boat position. New raystar 130 was $294 plus $85for cable adapter.
Replaced the battery for $6.00 in 15 minutes.

 

[Chief RA]

Are you talking about that little internal battery? Most people do not even know there is a memory battery in there! ha Good job. Chief

 

[HernandoBeacher]

Your post encouraged me to change the battery in my Raystar 125 that had started to lose fix and experienced prolonged signal acquisition. This was about the easiest boat project that I have ever done. Easier that replacing my wrist watch battery and much more rewarding!
Thanks, Rod

 

[Marc14857]

Just got around to doing this over the weekend. Very easy to do. Peal back the rubber gasket from the bottom of the GPS unit, unscrew 6 small phillips head screws, use a small flat screwdriver in the slots to unlatch the plastic clips and seperate the base from the cover. The battery is right there in front of you. It simply slides out of the holder no soldering required. Took all of about 20 minutes and cost $4.00 for the battery as opposed to ~ $400 for the new GPS antenna and seatalk conversion kit. The unit now gets a fix almost instantly on powering up.