My (ancient -- I think it predates their "model numbering"!) Navitek is on its last leg (display problem). Replacements are outrageously expensive and, given that I only use this occasionally, hardly seem worth the "investment".
[This is the approximate "current offering" to which I'd have to add the "remotes kit"]
This leaves me with two other options:
The display appears to be handled as a "peripheral" with it's own CoB. So, that makes repair a dubious prospect. I could probably reverse engineer its interface and "emulate" a comparable "presentation mechanism" -- but in a more awkward package.
Hacking together something comparable would likely be a poor time-money tradeoff (it doesn't take long to spend an amount of time equivalent to the $1000+ for a replacement!). OTOH, this would likely be a gizmo that others would want to "hack together" so there is an intangible benefit to undertaking that effort.
(There is also the benefit of being able to customize that sort of solution in ways that a COTS design wouldn't support)
Or, has someone come up with an alternative, already?
(Note this is not as mundane as a "continuity tester")
[This is the approximate "current offering" to which I'd have to add the "remotes kit"]
This leaves me with two other options:
- try to fix the display
- hack together something of comparable functionality
The display appears to be handled as a "peripheral" with it's own CoB. So, that makes repair a dubious prospect. I could probably reverse engineer its interface and "emulate" a comparable "presentation mechanism" -- but in a more awkward package.
Hacking together something comparable would likely be a poor time-money tradeoff (it doesn't take long to spend an amount of time equivalent to the $1000+ for a replacement!). OTOH, this would likely be a gizmo that others would want to "hack together" so there is an intangible benefit to undertaking that effort.
(There is also the benefit of being able to customize that sort of solution in ways that a COTS design wouldn't support)
Or, has someone come up with an alternative, already?
(Note this is not as mundane as a "continuity tester")
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