Hi Robert,
Thanks for your advice. The HP ipaq I have also does Tom Tom navigation on my
car so it spends most of its time on my windscreen. Because it already has an
internal gps I don't intend connecting an external one to it. The USB currently
plugs into a cigarette lighter adaptor and then runs of my cars 12 volts. I
want to plug it into my glider but without the cigarette adaptor.
I think I need to find what voltage is powering it first.
Regards
Don.
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Hart
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] USB power for Ipaqs
Don Woodward wrote:
Hi all,
I'm in the process of putting an ipaq into my glider. My ipaq uses a USB
cable for all power/data etc.. It has the smaller plug on the unit and the
larger (normal) USB plug into the power source. I want to chop off the larger
plug so I can run the lead straight off the panel.
The USB cable has copper, silver, red, black, green and white wires. It's
probably obvious but "just in case" can someone please confirm that the black
is negative power and the red is positive power? I don't want to blow my HP
Ipaq up, I have been caught out before!
can
Don
You need to be very careful - all iPaqs that I know about do NOT use 12v -
they use about 5.3v (iirc). So you cannot connect the glider 12v supply to
power your iPaq - at least not directly.
What I did for my (original) set up was
1.. Take the GPS and iPaq you will be using to someone like Johnny
Appleseed - (they are here in Brisbane and I think elsewhere as well).
2.. From the dealer, buy a premade cable that plugs into your GPS and your
iPaq - and also has a 12v car charger to provide power to both. If you are
using FLARM as the source, you don't have to power that specially, but you will
need to do a bit of soldering to get the data from the FLARM to the iPaq.
3.. Remove the innards of the 12v to 5v power supply and buy a small
project box from Dick Smith to hold this. Connect the glider 12v on the input
side and you are done.
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Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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