Hardwire Garmin Nuvi
Discussion
DuraAce said:
Are you confident it's 12v?
My Garmin needs a 5v feed. I used the original incar charger coupled to a car cig lighter wired to 12v from the fusebox. The incar charger bit does the 12-5v conversion. All hidden neatly behind the dash with a single wire exposed for the nav unit.
ThanksMy Garmin needs a 5v feed. I used the original incar charger coupled to a car cig lighter wired to 12v from the fusebox. The incar charger bit does the 12-5v conversion. All hidden neatly behind the dash with a single wire exposed for the nav unit.
That's what I was concerned about. I'll buy a cig lighter and use that, a much more sensible idea.
ETA, I can conceal one of these quite easily.
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Edited by PositronicRay on Wednesday 17th August 08:27
I had a concealed 12V- USB supply on the Pan Euro which worked fine with my old Nuvi 255; when I got the new Nuvi (2548?) it has live traffic and needs the special Garmin power lead/charger 
so I have to plug the car charger into the cig lighter socket in the glovebox (Pans have gloveboxes 
).
One of these days I'll buy a spare of the dedicated charger and conceal it but it works for now.
Rumour has it that there's some circuitry built-in to the USB plug that fits in the Nuvi socket to tell it that the correct charger is connected - it's not in the charger, there's only a 2-core cable and USB doesn't do data handshake over the supply lines.
so I have to plug the car charger into the cig lighter socket in the glovebox (Pans have gloveboxes ).One of these days I'll buy a spare of the dedicated charger and conceal it but it works for now.
Rumour has it that there's some circuitry built-in to the USB plug that fits in the Nuvi socket to tell it that the correct charger is connected - it's not in the charger, there's only a 2-core cable and USB doesn't do data handshake over the supply lines.
PositronicRay said:
That's what I have used the last few cars, with a fuse inline.Hol said:
PositronicRay said:
That's what I have used the last few cars, with a fuse inline.PositronicRay said:
Hol said:
PositronicRay said:
That's what I have used the last few cars, with a fuse inline.I can feed it back down when not in use pull out the slack and plug it in when required.
But, unless you are popping the vent, or taking the crash panel out, it might be difficult in some cars.
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