Garmin GPS - Bare-Wire Kit Motorcycle kit for car

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Bare-Wire Kit Motorcycle kit for car - will it work?

Brad Bishop

2006-11-26, 10:33 pm

I've got a 2820 on the way and I really don't like the 'wires across the
dash'-look for my car.

I was thinking about getting the Garmin Motorcycle power/audio cable:
http://shop.garmin.com/accessory.js...495%2D02

If I remember correctly motorcycles have a 6V battery instead of a 12V
battery. I don't know much about it other than that, though, as far as how
motorcycles handle power.

Do motorcycles have a 12V source that this would plug into (thus it would
work fine in my car)?

Basically: Will this work with a 12V power supply or is it only for 6V?

Thanks,

Brad

apersson850

2006-11-27, 7:33 am

Old motorcycles may have a 6 V system. So did old cars.
Now even my daughter's little 50 cc scooter has 12 V system.

Anders

HankB

2006-11-27, 3:33 pm

Brad Bishop wrote:
>
> Do motorcycles have a 12V source that this would plug into (thus it would
> work fine in my car)?

Modern motorcycles are 12V, like modern cars.
>
> Basically: Will this work with a 12V power supply or is it only for 6V?

You mioght want to look at what else is in the plug in cable. Obviously
it includes the speaker. The motorcycle cable has an audio jack. On the
2730, the factory plug also includes the FM mdoulator which is lost
when you switch to the motorcycle cable. Is that the case with the
2830?

-hank

JBDragon

2006-11-27, 10:33 pm

I have thought about taking the cable apart, Hook the power someplace out of
the way, and mount the speaker Above the headliner above the driver, or
something like that. I don't see what that wouldn't work, and it wouldn't
be all that hard to do. Just never got around to it yet.

"HankB" <hbarta@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Brad Bishop wrote:
>
> Modern motorcycles are 12V, like modern cars.
>
> You mioght want to look at what else is in the plug in cable. Obviously
> it includes the speaker. The motorcycle cable has an audio jack. On the
> 2730, the factory plug also includes the FM mdoulator which is lost
> when you switch to the motorcycle cable. Is that the case with the
> 2830?
>
> -hank
>

Brad Bishop

2006-11-28, 7:33 am

I was thinking I'd just use the audio jack from the motorcycle cable and
hook it into the back of my stereo (my head unit has a line-level AUX-IN).
That's, of course, if I can determine if the audio jack is line-level or
looking for a speaker.

I ordered the GPS antenna and the GTM 10 traffic receiver (I live in
Atlanta) with hopes of putting this all through the top of my dash (just
drill a hole and thread it all through) so I wouldn't be stuck in wire-hell.

The 2820 doesn't have an FM modulator. What else could be in that cable? It
seems like everything else is fed separately (seems like they could have
made some soft of clip-in docking station but they didn't).

Thanks for all of the input, though. I'm looking forward to getting all of
this setup.

Brad

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>I have thought about taking the cable apart, Hook the power someplace out
>of the way, and mount the speaker Above the headliner above the driver, or
>something like that. I don't see what that wouldn't work, and it wouldn't
>be all that hard to do. Just never got around to it yet.
>
> "HankB" <hbarta@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1164653018.375482.189300@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
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