Nuvi 350 connected to cig. ighter all the time

It won't hurt the Nuvi but it will drain your car battery. How fast I don't
know. And you'll have to remember to manually power off the Nuvi each time
you park or it wll drain the car battery even faster.

Bruce.

Mac -

One thing I've noticed, is that voltage to my lighter outlet takes a dip
when I start the car. As a result, sometimes the Nuvi adapter's LED
lamp stays dark and the Nuvi doesn't come on. When that happens, I have
to pull the lighter plug out and push it back in, to get it to activate.

I read of others here that had the same problem last year when I bought
mine. It is possible that Garmin fixed the problem with more recent
adapters. You should discover whether your setup has this problem
fairly quickly. Mine has the problem about 20 percent of the time.

Fred

        In this case, turn it off because there is no need to roast the GPS.

Let me ask the same question in another way to elicit a different response.

Will a Nuvi overcharge and damage the battery if left plugged in all the
time? Is the answer to this question model dependent?

One person worried about it getting overheated. Was that person
concerned about it overheating because of being plugged in? I'm not
interested in it overheating if left in the sun, I can guard against that.

I'm not really interesting in guesses. I'm not concerned about theft or
other ancillary issues. All I need to know is if Garmin made the
charging circuit in such a way as to prohibit battery overcharge and damage.

Steve

Steve Wolf, wrote the following at or about 8/8/2007 3:17 PM:
[snip]

If you're not interested in guesses, may I suggest you ask the experts -
Garmin

Here's the link for support.


http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us/supportcontacts

You can spend the time on hold reading the owner's manual which won't
answer your question other than to tell you that heat is harmful to the
lithium-ion cells or you can just log-in and e-mail them and ask the
question of the experts.