cable routing

[mac964]

Did a bit of retail therapy this morning and ended up buying a lovely 2610 from GPSW - good to meet you Ram - Man

I'm going to wire the power direct from the battery via the supplied fused cable but have a query re cable routing

Having never looked under the tank etc before would apreciate tips:

Do I have to remove tank to install cabling?

or can I bodge ( as per normal!)

Cheers


Mac

 

[Boz]

Mac,

You don't need to take the tank off, just take off all the side panels, including the tank covers (you'll have to remover the fuel cap as well, make sure you allign it correctly when you put it back as it can sit off centre).

All you need to do is run the cable past the tank, along side the orignial cabling and up to the bars or screen where ever your securing the GPS. Then just tie-wrap the cable and attach to the battery, make sure you have enough slack in the cable at each end to reach!

Will be fitting my 2610 when I'm back home from the US, will be using the same connection straight to the battery. But i've installed the front power socket so its nearly the same installation.

Cheers

Nik

 

[chippelmike]

Gp wires.

Mac why not utilise the plug which is fitted for a gps ? It's sitting there smiling at you below the bars on the left hand side ! Mike.

 

[Mouse]

The FAQ is your friend!

 

[RogerJ]

Mac, what Boz said. It is really quite easy to leave the tank itself in place and attach your Garmin motorcycle power with audio lead with some tape to a length of metal wire and gently fish it from the top left leading edge of the tank downwards through the space you will see alongside the BMW wiring harness bundle. You will see it come back into view on the lower left side of the tank. Then just follow along the wiring harness back to the battery area.
When you are happy with the location of everything just zip strip it into place making sure it is well secured alongside the wire harness bundle. I did mine this way. Everything is working fine. Attached mine via a Centech AP-1 fuse panel direct wired to the battery because I wanted to be able to leave my 2610 on and not power off with the bike at gas stations and the like. But suit yourself. Just be very careful to fish very gently and not to poke anything on the way. Cheers!

 

[Whiteliner]

Mike,

I've looked at the GPS socket as shown in Mouse's picture (I think it's a socket rather than a plug?) but I have no idea what plugs into it. I presume that it's for the BMW Navigator GPS. It would be nice to be able to use it to power my Garmin GPS V rather than having to run the lead all the way back to the accessory socket. I'd rather be able to plug into it rather than cutting and splicing!



Gary

 

[Mouse]

I couldn't find a plug that fits the GPS socket on the 1200. All I did was tin the bare wire ends and push them into the socket, with a bit of tape and a cable tie to hold it all in place. It's been working fine like that for 6 months

You can buy a lead from BMW to power the Navigator 2 from this socket, it's expensive but you could always cut the GPS plug off and fit your own.

 

[Whiteliner]

Thanks Mouse, I'm away from home at the moment so I can't take a look at the plug. It might be a silly question, but how did you find the right holes to push the tinned wires into. Your picture shows at least 3 wires in the loom and I remember the socket having a whole bunch of holes! I guess that the red wire is live and I should be able to find that with a multimeter, then it's just a case of finding the earth hole. It's an elegant solution anyway, so I think that I'll give it a go!

 

[Mouse]

As far as I remember there are three wires going to that socket. I think they are positive, ground and a signal from the speedo.

I located the positive by using a multimeter to meaasure the voltage to the negative battery terminal. Then find the ground wire by testing for continuity to the negative battery terminal again. You can obviously check this by measuring the voltage between the two terminals you have identified.

Long and short is, if you connect the wrong wires it won't work And unless you reverse +ve and -ve you're very unlikely rto damage anything, even then I would expect any sensible device (ie the GPS) to have reverse voltage protection on the supply input.

I should really check the wire colours and add that infomation to the FAQ.

 

[Aitch42]

I am not sure if the 2610 has audio out, however be warned that I routed the cables as suggested for a Garmin Quest and got massive amounts of interference on the audio channel. I am now routing the audio cable for the MP3 player and GPS over the top of the tank under the metal coloured cover - attaching using stick on tabs and small cable ties. Works a treat and no noise - well apart from the nagging woman - no not the wife the Garmin!.

Howard