WTB Perfect pass stargazer

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Looking to upgrade to PP stargazer for my 02 196. Anyone selling?

[SilentSeven]

Rare to find a turnkey unit for sale. I had success cobbling together parts from various sources. Bought the stargazer box and the required 4 line display from separate sellers advertising on ski-it-again.com . Found the GPS antenna via an ebay listing via a tip from a user on this board.

In the end, savings were marginal vs just purchasing the upgrade from PP. The PP box I got had old firmware (v8) and you really want the v9. That was $75 additional dollars. PP GPS antennas are super rare and PP charges $$ for them. You can try a Nauticlaugic GPS antenna but it will ONLY work if your box has never been flash with Z-box firmware. Or so they say....my PP Stargazer box had been z-box used and both PP and Nauticlaugic were not interested in solving the problem PP said it should work fine, Nauticlaugic didn't wish to debug something they already said won't work. Sent it back.

If I was to do it again, I'd try to buy the 4 line display (if you don't already have one) from a seller for less than the $260 that PP wants. And then just buy the PP Stargazer box, latest firmware and GPS antenna all from them as a package.

Hope this helps.

[gcam4]

I got ridiculously lucky and found some local who had one. If it wouldn't have been for that, I would have had no choice but to buy new. I would look for a module and then get a new gauge from PP as SilentSeven mentioned.

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[tmb]

Thanks for the feedback guys