Hardwiring a Sat Nav

[Steve Maund]

Have found this hardwired mini USB kit on the interweb.
Ordered it yesterday and delivered today, looks a great bit of kit and will mean no more trailing wires around the car.

http://www.buybits.com/product/sku_3110.aspx

Steve

[paul.deitch]

I recently did some translation work for this company's web site http://www.ge-tectronic.de/onlineshop/ and was pretty impressed with the product. It passes the pda/navi/mp3 audio to the car radio where there is a free input socket, or cuts out the radio supply to the speakers and supplies them directly with its own amp. From the length of the message it identifies whether its music or navi announcements. It can also supply power to the pda etc.
As I said, I thought it was pretty cool.

[Blues]

I just took the large end off one of the spare USB cables i have, and used the red and blue leads for power and earth - works a treat and cost me nothing

[nickwilcock]

You're lucky your satnav was happy with a 12v input and didn't burn out!

Garmin require a 12v-to-5v DC:DC voltage dropper.

[Blues]

nickwilcock said:

You're lucky your satnav was happy with a 12v input and didn't burn out!

Garmin require a 12v-to-5v DC:DC voltage dropper.

It's a TomTom One XL, and has been wroking just fine with the direct 12v. Maybe i should place a 12v to 5v converter in line just to be safe

Edited by Blues on Friday 2nd January 07:27

[Aubrey]

Do you have any pictures of your new install?