Question for Quest owners

[snoopy]

As my Quest will arrive on Tuesday I wont have time to prep it up before Morocco. I'm told in the package is a 12v car adapter cable with some sort of speaker on it? Is the 12v-5v electronics stored in the plug part or somewhere later down the cable?

My idea is to cut the plug off and attach a BMW marine plug.

Also, how do I plug headphones in - directly to the unit or do I need to cut 'n' solder the speaker?


Many thanks,
Andrew

 

[Mutley]

Andrew,

There's a headphone socket in the back of the unit

The car adapter has a typical plug for a car cigarette lighter. Attached to it is the speaker for the car. I'm not technical so that is all I can describe for you, there are no more gubbins between the plug and the unit

I am a bit concerned that you need to have ordered the correct CD for maps of Morocco, mine only came with Europe on it?

 

[Fanum]

Andrew,

There's a headphone socket in the back of the unit

The car adapter has a typical plug for a car cigarette lighter. Attached to it is the speaker for the car. I'm not technical so that is all I can describe for you, there are no more gubbins between the plug and the unit

I am a bit concerned that you need to have ordered the correct CD for maps of Morocco, mine only came with Europe on it?

THERE IS NOT A HEADPHONE SOCKET ON THE BACK OF THE UNIT!!!!!

There's an external GPS aerial socket, a USB socket and the pins for the power/voice transfer to the cradle, but defionately NOT a headphone socket.

The car adaptor has the 'gubbins' indside the plug in speaker part......that bit holds the speaker itself and a 12-5v transformer.

 

[snoopy]

There is no such CD; the european v6 contains the same detail as the world map. Euro V8 should be the best available. I have all of them

So this lead then. Does it also plug into the headphone socket or get its audio source from elsewhere?

 

[snoopy]

Right, so I need to kill the speaker and hook it up to a 3.5mm headphone socket and solder on a marine plug, hiding the garmin bit under the tank.

It's all coming together

The difficult bit is going to be mounting it without a mount.

 

[Kritou]

Right, so I need to kill the speaker and hook it up to a 3.5mm headphone socket and solder on a marine plug, hiding the garmin bit under the tank.

It's all coming together

The difficult bit is going to be mounting it without a mount.

Just ring "Steve RAM man" at GPS warehouse (020 88939393) early tomorrow morning and let him send you all the correct bits (sameday dispatch) His system is tried and tested

 

[Kritou]

Snoopy - your PM box is full so can't reply to your latest - check with Steve that you are sent the QPAC-35 with BMW (DIN) plug attached - NOT bare ends

Simplest earphone option is BA58N over earpiece (£4.27) from Maplin. Comfortable and works even with foam earplugs

 

[RAM-man]

As my Quest will arrive on Tuesday I wont have time to prep it up before Morocco. I'm told in the package is a 12v car adapter cable with some sort of speaker on it? Is the 12v-5v electronics stored in the plug part or somewhere later down the cable?

My idea is to cut the plug off and attach a BMW marine plug.

Also, how do I plug headphones in - directly to the unit or do I need to cut 'n' solder the speaker?
Many thanks,
Andrew

By suggestion is DON'T...

The auto mount & cradle kit is not water/weatherproof .
The auto cradle is intended for a car and not been thrown around on a bike.
The Vreg chipset in the auto mount has a lower temp as its ventilated.
Audio out is via speaker and not headphone adapted.
Mounting it securely is a problem - as my parts won't help you.

I would say if venturing to North Africa with its high daytime sun & heat then you opt for something that's intended for the job, as I would be most surprised if the auto mount did not *fry* in that heat.

But .. its your choice and the wrong place to discover it.

RAM-man

 

[nick]

Check out the problems I have had with the Garmin power cradle.

The Bike kit would benefit from being waterproof !!!

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68668

 

[(RIP) sherpa]

That'll work fine

Right, so I need to kill the speaker and hook it up to a 3.5mm headphone socket and solder on a marine plug, hiding the garmin bit under the tank.

It's all coming together

The difficult bit is going to be mounting it without a mount.

I did exactly that on my last bike and did 44,000 trouble free miles with the unit under that tank between the ABS unit and battery. Set the volume wheel at about halfway and then seal with silicone. Wrap the whole lot in tank tape and away you go. Volume control is now possible via the Quest unit itself but wasn't on the early software.
I ran mine like this because there wasn't a bike kit available when the Quest was first launched, using the pushbike mount with power connector installed.

I've just removed the setup from that bike - reinstalled the speaker and its now running fine in the car. The new bike has the TT mount with Ram Qpac cable which works fine as long as you are careful fitting the Quest onto the cradle. The Ram connection pins are just that, pins, and the TT mount requires the Quest to be installed with a slight sideways motion which can push the pos. pin over to the side and miss it's contact on the back of the Quest unit - I guess its not a problem on the Ram cable as the Quest goes in from the front.
Sherpa