Spot Gen 3 repair

At the risk of incurring your wrath, have you checked that the batteries are ok?
Cheers Andrew

Perhaps a phone call to the seller would yield a result.

May not be worth fixing given you can buy them for under $180-.

Hi Geoff, Pivotel are the company responsible for import of the units to Australia/supply to Australian Distributors, so they would be the best people to contact, click here for their "contact us" page.

There's very little that is repairable in todays world - particularly when it comes to electronic items.

The cost of parts plus the cost of labour, usually runs to more than the depreciated value of the item.

Most places charge $100 hr for labour, add the exorbitant switch cost, and I couldn't see a switch repair costing less than the item replacement cost.

It's a very annoying and frustrating part of our society today, particularly for those of us old enough to be brought up in the age when you fixed everything and threw away nothing, unless it was totally destroyed.

The only way I get around the problem is taking the article apart myself, see how difficult the repair is, and try to source the replacement part from eBay or Gumtree.

Of course, half the time you're defeated by one-way screws - "no-user serviceable components inside" decals - or components set in deep epoxy resin, making removeability impossible.

Cheers, Ron.

Thanks, folks. I contacted Findmespot and it can't be fixed. Might get a new one, or might just go back to the EPIRB. Cheers!