Wiring garmin 2610 to gs1150

[scubamouse]

Have got hold of a second hand 2610 and not sure where to wire it in to or what coloures the wire are.

Red - positive
Black - negative

are the other needed and the head phone jack where is a cheap place to get a speaker to helmet

Thanks for your help

Mick

 

[gpsonaPan]

Hi Scuba Mouse.

Love it,,

Anyways, If the wire is long enough you can wire it directly to battery with an inline fuse.

Maplin may be able to help with a "cheap" in ear mono headset. I had one for my SP111. The type PC plod has over his ear. Cost about £3.95. I needed n adapter tho, for the jack,.

Confused,,

HTH
Pat.

 

[scubamouse]

Thanks for that

Will have a look in maplins and see what they have

 

[Bumpkin]

Alternatively, still from Maplins, make up your own twin speaker in helmet headset that doesn't try to rip your ear off every time you remove your lid. See my post (#5) on this thread, cost about £14 all in inc. P&P when ordered off their web site. If you can wield a soldering iron without burning yourself then it isn't a hard job.

I previously used one of those Maplin over the ear jobbies and it was difficult to get my lid on without dislodging it, even a little, which vastly reduced it's effectiveness. The solution above is always there and aligned with my lug 'oles.

 

[Greg Masters]

You need a lead like this:

A few quid from your Garmin dealer.

Greg

 

[Bumpkin]

are the other needed

I'm assuming here that your 2610 came with the auto power lead. If you have four wires showing then I suspect it was cut away from its previous application. The power lead for my Quest has four wires running its entire length (discovered when putting in a QD connector) two of which are trimmed to the insulation at the battery end. ISTR that they were brown and green in my case and after much procrastination I concluded that they were for the audio feed going to the jack which is spliced in near the GPS end and redundant/disconnected 'south' of that. I insulated and ignored them, everything works as it should. Re. the remaining two; Red was positive, black negative in my case.

 

[scubamouse]

I'm assuming here that your 2610 came with the auto power lead. If you have four wires showing then I suspect it was cut away from its previous application. The power lead for my Quest has four wires running its entire length (discovered when putting in a QD connector) two of which are trimmed to the insulation at the battery end. ISTR that they were brown and green in my case and after much procrastination I concluded that they were for the audio feed going to the jack which is spliced in near the GPS end and redundant/disconnected 'south' of that. I insulated and ignored them, everything works as it should. Re. the remaining two; Red was positive, black negative in my case.

Yes its has the red and black and two theres with a 3.5mm jack plug up by the conection into the unit.

will insulate the others then

Thanks for all the help

Mick

 

[Jon]

If you have four wires showing then I suspect it was cut away from its previous application. The power lead for my Quest has four wires running its entire length (discovered when putting in a QD connector) two of which are trimmed to the insulation at the battery end.

The Garmin 2610 bike power lead is supplied that way...........

 

[gpsonaPan]

I reckon your best bet is the suggestion by Greg up there.^^^ It has an audio jack and all you need is a decent(ish) set of speakers in your helmet.

Pat

 

[teejay]

My Garmin is powered from from a Optimiser lead. Have done this on previous bikes, run optimised lead up to handle bar end, then with power lead supplied for Garmin wire it onto male end of optimiser lead and just plug in. When you take the unit off just unplug the power supply and it already has in line fuse--works for me a 3 mates all done same.

Teejay

 

[LTGTR]

Here's the link to a great explanation from cycoactive

http://www.cycoactive.com/gps/gps_hardwire.html

http://www.touratech-usa.com/shop/media3/gc12v26-02.jpg

http://www.touratech-usa.com/docs/0...on=touratech:BB07E302227887166EC1B2829AD8D452
John