The battery is a very common one that comes complete with pig tail and connector. There has been a post here already where a member opened his unit and the battery is very easily replaceable by the end user.
I've been using a friends labradar and I never even messed with the internal battery. I just plugged it into a 50,000mah brick I have which was more than enough.
I understand where you're coming from. I just didn't want to get into a situation like the gopro hero cubes that were non serviceable so once you fatigued the battery it was a throw away. My other concern is in the world of R/C airplanes and drones if you don't discharge the battery down to 30-50% for storage they fatigue extremely quick. Not to mention they swell up too.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression that this battery is not proprietary to Garmin, neither form factor, chemistry, nor capacity and can be bought (without Garmin’s name on it) from multiple sources including Amazon.
Mine is from 2012 and the battery finally died last spring.
My question to Garmin was answered by them saying that if the internal battery goes dead, it will run off an external battery pack...the same way that virtually every Labradar out there is currently being run by necessity. So there's always that option if they were to refuse to service the internal pack (which I see no reason they couldn't/wouldn't).
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By the forum yes. My call with Garmin was very non committal as far as cost. Basically if the battery fails within 1yr they might swap it out for a new unit. But if it fails down the road they will service it, but they wouldn't comment on cost. She did say they expect a 4yr battery life with everyday use and closer to 10yr with occasional use.
JFC just buy a replacement battery pack from Amazon and turn some screws
