I have a 4700 that works fine except the power button no longer works. I can plug it in to an OSM and it will automatically power up, but it will not power up with just a 12V battery. And the power button will not turn it off.
Anyone have a faceplate for an old 4700 that is no longer being used? Maybe the receiver no longer works?
It is relatively simple, the only thing in the piece is the power button, the LEDS are actually on the board inside and they are viewed through holes in the faceplate. A thin ribbon cable attaches the faceplate to the board inside the receiver.
I'd get in touch with Joe Horak at Gulf Coast Geoquip. He always seems to have a lot of old parts around.
Thanks, Jim. I will do that.
He had a few 4700 he uses for parts, and one had a good faceplate. So hopefully that will fix it. Good resource to know. I have an assortment of Trimble receivers: 4400, 4700 (2), 5700, R8 GNSS(2), R10, and one never knows when something will go bad. I had one of the R8's almost totally rebuilt about 2 years ago (at great cost, but still about 1/2 the cost of a new one). It recently had the keypad go bad and that was replaced again. But it was one of the units with Glonass, so it was important to have that working.
We do a lot of static (more than RTK), so all of the GPS only units are useful to me. Now that I have three units with Glonass and the R10 with a SIM card, longer range single base RTK is now feasible.