stereo garmin

[ynotbiker]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help. I have a quest 2 mounted on my bike, not bike powered. I tried using various earphones, the kid's and mine etc. Only seems to be listening in mono. Anybody got any ideas how I can hear out of both earphones? Does it need bike power to do this?

 

[DodgyGeeSer]

Hi ynotbiker, as far as I know the unit outputs in mono only, so, in order to listen in stereo, you'd need to do some electronic trickery between your headphones and the unit itself, the effort for which may over-weigh the advantages..

By the way, how are you getting audio without having it bike powered? Are you using the QPAC audio only cable which RamMan posted about recently?

 

[Farmer Palmer]

Stereo Quest!

Put mine through a TT Power/audiolead then into a Autocom 'stereo gizmo'(can't remember the part number)Then into the autocom itself. The sound quality is very good and it cuts out most of the electrical interference! Mine is just a Quest though!

Ynotbiker hope that is of some use, I have a lockable TT mount on the crossbar and the whole setup works well for me!

 

[DodgyGeeSer]

and here's a very expensive mono to stereo (really dual mono) cable:
http://www.blue-job.co.uk/Garmin/images/cab-35.jpg

available at a mere 25 quid including VAT.
http://www.blue-job.co.uk/garmin-index.htm

These are probably much cheaper elsewhere, just don't include the word 'GPS' in your search!

 

[ynotbiker]

audio

hi dodgygeeser,thanks for the help,i have a power cradle from gps warhouse but not powered by bike,need socket fitted to bike first,just using kids ear phones and its working fine,there is a small box behind cradle this might have something to do with it

 

[RAM-man]

Hi ynotbiker, as far as I know the unit outputs in mono only, so, in order to listen in stereo, you'd need to do some electronic trickery between your headphones and the unit itself, the effort for which may over-weigh the advantages..

By the way, how are you getting audio without having it bike powered? Are you using the QPAC audio only cable which RamMan posted about recently?

QPAC series is the powered & audio option and ACQ is the non powered option but allows audio out. As far as I know, this is a mono output. The idead of using kids earphone is not something to encourage as I recall Michael (Pan European) posting something about this subject some months back suggestion these types of ear devices are not used as could go into the ear canal if you were to slide off the wrong way (Pan - I am paraphrasing the words, but this was the jist of the point you made ?) .

RAM-man