e120 issue

[Rhodewaves]

Today I lost my fix on my E120. I changed the battery in the antenna and it came on. 3 hours later turned on the unit and again no fixed. I checked all the wires, all the fuses and nothing....any ideas?

 

[Frosty]

This is probably a long shot, but years ago my Garmin 2010c started losing the fix. It had the separate, "white mushroom" type of GPS antenna. What I didn't know was that that antenna had it's own software, and hence versions and updates (boat came to me with the unit already aboard). Turns out the antenna-specific software was way behind, and when I updated it the problem went away. As I remember it was updated through the MFD.

This was a Garmin (early 2000's vintage)... does the E120 (or e120?) use a similar antenna? (I'm not sure.)

 

[DDW]

I don't believe the E120 has a GPS receiver. It is getting fixes from something else in the system, perhaps a Ray GPS120 or something else, transferred to it via Seatalk or NMEA. Do you know what the GPS source is?

 

[Comodave]

Have you talked to Raymarine support or looked at their data base of problems? I have always had excellent support from them.

 

[Frosty]

That's a good point. I've had a number of questions answered directly on the Raymarine forum, and had many more answered by searching and reading the answers to previous posts.

 

[Codger2]

That's a good point. I've had a number of questions answered directly on the Raymarine forum, and had many more answered by searching and reading the answers to previous posts.

Please let us know what you find as there are still a lot of e 120s out there.

 

[Frosty]

Please let us know what you find as there are still a lot of e 120s out there.

Just to clarify, I'm not the OP with the e/E120 issue. I could maybe have made that clearer. I had responded upthread with a long-shot idea, but had failed to mention the very helpful Raymarine forum as an option. Comodave added that suggestion, and I was just backing it up by noting my good experience there.

I do hope the OP will come back with an update. I like to see a conclusion once a mystery is started.

 

[Comodave]

Just a small technical point, the older series are E120 not e120. The e series came out just before the Axiom series. If you put a small e in it, it may confuse people not only here but on the support forum

 

[Barabus]

I have a e120 with the small e circa 2013. It would randomly turn its self on. I did a software update that was rumored to fix the problem. Went to lighthouse 2. Also had a bad AIS antenna. Both were fixed about the same time. Seems to have solved the problem as it has not happened since.

 

[Frosty]

I wasn't sure if we were talking about e/E since both were mentioned in the first post. E is probably the same era as my old Garmin. But not e.