Installing fuse for direct 2610 to Battery Connection

[alecmuffett]

Hi Guys,

18 months ago I made a small junction box and an adapter to wire my 2610 into the front accessory socket on my 12GS. Since that socket is fused, I removed the spurious in-line fuse from the 2610 cable.

Since then I have had a firmware update which seems to have buggered the front socket power supply and for the purposes of sanity I now wish to wire the GPS to the battery directly, and include an in-line switch.

Can someone please remind me of the fuse specification?

Thanks!

 

[cookie]

the power lead for my 2610 came with a 1amp fuse (glass tube type).

 

[PanEuropean]

Alec:

Just to avoid confusion - when you refer to a 'firmware update that buggered things up', I take it you are referring to an update of the firmware for the motorcycle itself, not for the GPSR?

As for the fuse - to the best of my knowledge, none of the Garmin GPSRs have a fuse size larger than 1.5 amps.

Michael

 

[alecmuffett]

Just to avoid confusion - when you refer to a 'firmware update that buggered things up', I take it you are referring to an update of the firmware for the motorcycle itself

Correct.

My motorcycle has firmware.

Still to this day I find it astonishing to say that out loud.

 

[PanEuropean]

Don't feel bad about your motorcycle having firmware. My Volkswagen has 71 different controllers (computers) in it, of which about 30 can be flash-updated with new firmware, and it has four different onboard networks, including a high speed fiber optic network, which all come together and share information through a common router. Heck, the engine even has two Bosch Motronic ECU computers - one master and one slave - one for the left side of the engine, and one for the right side. I've often wondered whether if I unplugged one of them if my gas mileage would double.

I've already had the VW firmware flashed about half a dozen times to either resolve problems or enhance functionality.

Compared to that, a single firmware flash on a motorcycle is pretty reasonable.

Michael

 

[HMR]

Compared to that, a single firmware flash on a motorcycle is pretty reasonable.

Who said it's only one on the R12GS?

One for the ABS, one for the Motronic, one for the electric power, one for the alarm, etc.

 

[alecmuffett]

Don't feel bad about your motorcycle having firmware. My Volkswagen has 71 different controllers (computers) in it, of which about 30 can be flash-updated with new firmware, and it has four different onboard networks, including a high speed fiber optic network, which all come together and share information through a common router. Heck, the engine even has two Bosch Motronic ECU computers

All of which helps to explain why my friend in Belgium suffers from the GPS in his Golf spontaneously and repeatedly resetting to talk to him in German.

(/me is supposedly an expert in computer networking and grid computation, so tying together several hundred disparate systems in a single vehicle horrifies me)