Hi. I don't mind the PAC Mate. However you might also want to look into getting an Icon from Level Star. I like the fact that the PAC Mate has a Braille Display, and both the PAC Mate and Icon let you install off-the-shelf apps so you can freely run whatever you want. HTH.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blazie-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:19 AMSubject: [blazie-support] Re: getting a braille lite 18 and braille lite 2000 repared
You can get the battery fixed from any local Batteries Plus as those are standard batteries. As for the advance bar, I don't know what to tell you.A friend of mine recently tried asking Freedom what the charge was to look at his BLT 40 which has some managed cells on it and they informed him he was better off with a so-called PACMate which is mostly crap in my opinion, plus they would charge him $250 just to look at it, plus $50 per cell. Quite obviously they will do the work, at the cost of today's prices despite it being an older device.Go figure. Lamar Upshaw wrote:Hi. I heard that freedom scientific no longer supports the braille lite 18 or 2000. Are there any companies that still repare them? I am looking to get the battery replaced in mine, and get the advance bar fixed, because it keeps collapsing. I've had to get that repared twice with freedom scientific before, but for what ever reason, my advance bar always does that. I have a light touch, so I know it's not because i'm too hard on it. lol. I also have a friend who's still using a braille lite, and she also needs repares, but we both heard it's not done any more. Can someone shed some light on this for us?With All Respect, Upshaw, Lamar T-- Raul A. Gallegos .. http://www.asmodean.net -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.486 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1210 - Release Date: 1/5/2008 11:46 AM
