Hardwiring Zumo 550 to the battery on the GS

[Anchorman]

I have purchased a Zumo 55o that I want to fit to my GS without paying £49 for the Canbus adaptor from Nippy Normans! Is it simply a case of wiring it to the battery with an inline fuse? I have a good length of cable and an inline fuse fitted to the one I have bought. If I disconnect the battery totally to fit the Sat Nave does this affect the electrics on the B'M? Help....

 

[ghiribizzo]

I have purchased a Zumo 55o that I want to fit to my GS without paying £49 for the Canbus adaptor from Nippy Normans! Is it simply a case of wiring it to the battery with an inline fuse? I have a good length of cable and an inline fuse fitted to the one I have bought. If I disconnect the battery totally to fit the Sat Nave does this affect the electrics on the B'M? Help....

£49? You can wire it to this canbus plug:
http://www.nippynormans.com/product...harness-and-for-any-other-gps-gar-canbuszu660
(Other suppliers are available...) That way it'll come on when you turn the key on and go off 5-6 minutes after the key's off.
Sure, you can connect it directly as you say but then you need to physically turn the thing on and off - a PITA.
Yes - if you disconnect the battery, the electronics can get bewildered with the loss of power - assuming we're not meaning an R100GS? Plugging into a socket that's there for that purpose is easiest, no?

 

[Gossy]

£49? You can wire it to this canbus plug:
http://www.nippynormans.com/product...harness-and-for-any-other-gps-gar-canbuszu660
(Other suppliers are available...) That way it'll come on when you turn the key on and go off 5-6 minutes after the key's off.
Sure, you can connect it directly as you say but then you need to physically turn the thing on and off - a PITA.
Yes - if you disconnect the battery, the electronics can get bewildered with the loss of power - assuming we're not meaning an R100GS? Plugging into a socket that's there for that purpose is easiest, no?

+1

coil up your Zumo lead and secure with tiewraps, join live to live and earth to earth cores and it will go on and off after a few seconds with ignition.

 

[oblertone]

There is a school of thought ...

... that says leaving the cradle permanently 'live' will lead to premature failure of the power pin in the cradle. The switched option detailed above is the way to go

 

[Beemerman59]

Yes - if you disconnect the battery, the electronics can get bewildered with the loss of power - assuming we're not meaning an R100GS? Plugging into a socket that's there for that purpose is easiest, no?

I've never knowingly had any issues with disconnecting or replacing the battery on the 1200. What gets bewildered exactly other than resetting the TPS?

I used to have a 550 and connected it up first with the canbus connector under the headstock. Always caused problems with the unit not switching off properly so changed it to hard wired from the battery. That gave the issue of burning out the pins on the cradle as also mentioned above so changed to a switched set up via a fusebox. I've repeated this with the 660 and have had no issues.

 

[Pablo1]

I have purchased a Zumo 55o that I want to fit to my GS without paying £49 for the Canbus adaptor from Nippy Normans! Is it simply a case of wiring it to the battery with an inline fuse? I have a good length of cable and an inline fuse fitted to the one I have bought. If I disconnect the battery totally to fit the Sat Nave does this affect the electrics on the B'M? Help....

im on my 3rd bike now with the zumo cradle wired direct to the battery, no issues , hth

oh and what a lot of bollix about confusing things by disconnecting battery

 

[Fanum]

... that says leaving the cradle permanently 'live' will lead to premature failure of the power pin in the cradle. The switched option detailed above is the way to go

More than a school....a definite experience of that here....several times over

Admittedly, not on a Zumo but with the old Quests....the connection pins in the cradle are copper, so it doesn't take more than a drop of rain for a film of copper oxide to be deposited on the (Ok, I can't remember whether it's anodic or cathodic coating, so let's skip past t his bit and pretend I got it right) terminal

It's also bad news if you leave the bike for a week or two....the power pack is quite inefficient and over time, even with no GPS in it, you';ll drain the battery (all those tenths of an AH add up )

oh and what a lot of bollix about confusing things by disconnecting battery

It's just simple good practice......you may get away with not doing it a thousand times, but one day, a live connection will ground out and let the smoke genie escape from the wires.....so bollix to your bollix

 

[Dezidero]

havin perminant live feed , if you lift the unit from the cradle , upon replacing the unit it causes an arc between unit-cradle and thru time burns away the connection ! lesson learned !

 

[Straydog]

Why pay nippy so much for his canbus cable when you can buy it cheaper at your local BMW dealer.. I paid £8.90 for the last canbus cable when I changed to the rider 5..