Garmin G5 Battery Failure

[MikeOH]

2 hours ago, 201Steve said:

There’s a reason new airplanes aren’t built with vacuum AI’s. I prefer to have the best option available. It seems to me the industry has spoken. 

There are probably many reasons including lower costs with higher profit margins.  I think a big reason is good marketing and many customers just like the 'cool factor' with all those 'pretty colors' and stuff

It comes down to just what does 'best option' really mean to each buyer.  Which is fine by me.  It's the often implied, often subtle, sometimes not, contention that those of us who have not invested 10s of AMUs in the 'latest and greatest' 'glass' are somehow giving up safety.  That is what annoys me because safety is mostly between the ears and not in the panel in front of you.

[201Steve]

@MikeOH yeah, your right about the in between ears thing! 
 

The other, hard to say for certain

[201Steve]

25 minutes ago, MikeOH said:

 It's the often implied, often subtle, sometimes not, contention that those of us who have not invested 10s of AMUs in the 'latest and greatest' 'glass' are somehow giving up safety.  That

To be fair, you voluntarily entered a conversation about Garmin G5’s and started this tussle!

[MikeOH]

26 minutes ago, 201Steve said:

To be fair, you voluntarily entered a conversation about Garmin G5’s and started this tussle!

Touché!

Yeah, I am guilty of a little gloat over battery issues that I don't have to worry about.

[Fly Boomer]

7 hours ago, 201Steve said:

There’s a reason new airplanes aren’t built with vacuum AI’s. I prefer to have the best option available. It seems to me the industry has spoken. 

The reason all commercial products are built the way they are is "commercial" -- whatever maximizes profit.  I really doubt that all the junk Americans buy and soon discard, was the best it could be.

[ArrowBerry]

We had a battery die on us after the plane sat idle for too long and drained it entirely. Would not take a charge. We bought a replacement battery from Spruce and it didn't work right out of the box. The "no bat" annunciation came on right away, and it persisted even to move the battery into our second G5. Garmin itself recommends maintaining at least a 30% charge in the battery, and yet the manufacture date of the new one we received was nearly two years prior. I suspect it had been sitting on the shelf for two long.

Anyways, we did the warranty claim through Spruce and it took forever... like 3-4 months, but they did send us a new battery that finally worked.

Does anyone know if Garmin is still honouring the warranty for the G5 serial numbers affecting by the battery draining service bulletin? I was a little bit out of the loop on that until we had this battery issue and now I'm wondering if we can still send in the unit to be fixed/replaced... whatever they do with them?

[PT20J]

On 9/18/2024 at 9:34 AM, Pinecone said:

From people who ALMOST crashed.  

No, glass is not the be all to end all.  But it offers a lot of advantages to steam gauges.  If steam gauges were better, airliners and military aircraft would use them.  Now, only the older aircraft have them

 

Well, the SB says, "This service bulletin must be complied with no later than February 28, 2023." But you can always ask.