Mastiff
23-02-2006, 12:19 PM
My new Atom won't charge with the lighter plug to USB that I have in my car (it came with my Hollux GPS unit). Has anybody else had that problem? I think it gets some power, but not enough. I put it in with about 25-30 % capacity and started navigating with TomTom. TomTom warns if there is no power, and the unit behaved like it was on power, but the orange charging LED wasn't working. An hour or so later the message came up that the unit was shutting down because it didn't have enough power to go on, and I could then see that it had to be around the last 5-10 % of the batter. WTF? Then, when the Atom had shut down, the orange charging light came on, and half an hour later the battery was charged up to around 30 % when I turned it on. It lost the charging LED again when I turned it on to check, but by then I was home. Has anybody else seen this problem?
Edit: This may be the Hollux stuff that's giving me problems. It won't charge with the 220 Volt charger that came with it either, so the voltage is probably too low. Weird, since I can charge both from any PC with an USB port, and the charger that came with the Atom has the same rating, 5 W 1 amp, as the one that came with the GPS.
Edit: This may be the Hollux stuff that's giving me problems. It won't charge with the 220 Volt charger that came with it either, so the voltage is probably too low. Weird, since I can charge both from any PC with an USB port, and the charger that came with the Atom has the same rating, 5 W 1 amp, as the one that came with the GPS.