GPS & Bike-to-Bike

[Mick_rw]

I have a Active 7 Smart autocom system, which works fine, was looking at a fitting a bike to bike system, the GPS and radio's both use the same connector. So Autocom say connect the GPS to the music socket with a 2.5 mono / 3.5 stereo lead. That works fine.

The problem I am having, when I run the GPS from its own batteries it works ok, running GPS from bike battery all I get is a screeching noise. Anybody seen this problem, if so how did you cure it.

Cheers

Mick

 

[MikeO]

Yep - the solution is to buy their (Autocom's) lead designed for the job - it has a bit of electrical circuitry built into it to suppress the interference. They are not cheap - but they do work. Your other option is to continue to power the GPS from batteries...

Mike

 

[Mick_rw]

Thanks.....

Yep - the solution is to buy their (Autocom's) lead designed for the job - it has a bit of electrical circuitry built into it to suppress the interference. They are not cheap - but they do work. Your other option is to continue to power the GPS from batteries...

Mike

Have just looked at the Autocom parts list and I see what you mean, I stupidly assumed the lead provided with the autocom system would work ok.

Thanks Mike.

Mick