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Originally Posted by basem
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apologies if this has been asked before..I had no problems charging my axim 50 since i bought it 6 months ago and i used it alot for sat. navigation but recently i had a problem...the car charger will charge the unit with no problem until i insert the cf card i use as sat. receiver (rikaline) and then it will stop charging and the power light will flicker...once i was stranded in the middle of no where when my axim ran out of power while i was using the sat.nav and i had to stop for 30 min. to recharge it before i could use the sat. nav on battery power...i tried soft and hard reset and even i had the unit replaced by dell when the BIS disappeared but still having the problem...i know that the charger is fine because it charges the unit without the cf card...can you advise me please 
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One word for you dude...."MILLI-AMPS!!"
Simply put your car charger is not providing enough current to deal with the higher power draw of having your Axim AND a CF GPS card running together.
The x50 is a power gobbling beast and even more so when running a CF GPS card.
Check your mAh rating on the car charger. If it's less than 850mAh then it AIN'T gonna work! If you check the wall charger that comes with the Axim that plugs into your cradle, you'll see it's rated for 2000mAh!!
I got an 850mAh car charger for my Axim and it will recharge the Axim while using GPS software and bluetooth, albeit slowly. That said, I'm using Blutooth GPS and the charger is NOT supplying that with power, I run the GPS receiver off battery. I doubt it could cope with charging both my Axim AND the GPS unit while both are running.
I know BOXWAVE do a higher rated car charger,
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