06 gs dakar and garmin 2610

[rc mad]

Hi peeps, just bought myself a shiny new gs dakar, which i promptly dropped after three days and 75 miles of ownership, thankfully onto mud so no harm done

Lost my footing and the thing just went over

Anyway, back to the real reason i'm posting this. How do i wire a garmin 2610 into the dakars electrical system?

I've got the motorbike mounting kit and i'd assume the best place to connect to would be the battery, however, before i go ahead and do that i'd like any advice you lot have to give, if i wire it direct onto the battery the terminals for the garmin are going to be live all the time, not good if the connecters get wet and short out

The other thing is the 26120 has no internal battery so i'd like the thing to be constantly powered when its on the bike. The only thing i can think of doing is connecting the lead direct onto the battery but stick a switch in the +ve side of the lead after the fuse, the switch could then sit under the seat out of harms way, and i'd then be able to easily control when there is power on the connector.

 

[Dave Hall]

I connected mine to a fused live on the fuse box. Its live all the time but fused in case it shorts.

 

[carcher2k]

Or even easier than trying to shunt it into the fusebox is to splice it in to the wires that feed the auxilary power socket. Permanently live, and that circuit is fused anyway. Mine went in there, and have never had any problems with it.

 

[rc mad]

thanks for the input guys, i've ended up wiring it up to the battery. I was going to use a switch but while i was routing the cable i realised that i can stick the cable under the abs / hazard switch block, i doubt it'll get too wet under there.

Just got to wait for the ram mount parts to turn up, i didn't realise the garmin 'mount' doesn't actualy have a mount so to speak

 

[Mouse]

A 12 contact that gets wet won't short out, not enough to cause any damage anyway, the resistance of water is too high.

The real danger is that a permanently live positive contact will eventually corrode, therefore it's best to have a switched feed if possible.