Hi there. This past summer, I mounted a GPS unit to the black cover that goes over the middle of the handlebars. Simply used a large patch of Velcro. The electrical connection consists of a "USB to Battery Tender Adapter" with the standard "Battery Tender" end, that plugs into my always connected to the battery....Battery Tender dongle. It is neatly zip-tied to the frame and the plug-in for the back of the GPS I keep disconnected/covered with a rubber cap when it is not in use. I can still charge the battery via the Battery Tender connection by simply un-plugging it.
The GPS sits inconspicuously in the middle of the handlebars and interferes with nothing. Super secure. Draws power directly from the battery. Ken On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 7:00:24 AM UTC-7, EGrider wrote: > I'm looking for ways to put a GPS on my PC800. On Ol' Yeller I had a Ram > X-mount on the handlebars and a 12 volt "cigarette lighter" wired straight > back to the battery under the gas tank. > > Last summer on my trip to BC, I took both my Garmin Nuvi and my daughter's > Magellan with me. Both stopped working on the trip. When I got back home, I > took them to a shop, and they tested them and said they were just fine! I > tried them in the car, and yes, they were just fine. But why don't they > work on my bike? > > It seems that they work until they run out of battery. The power they are > getting from the 12 volt isn't enough, so they turn off, charge up a bit, > come back on, run out of power and turn off, again and again. Drives me > crazy. I try to turn them off and just let them charge, but when they get > enough power, they come on automatically for a bit and die. I checked the > current of my "cigarette lighter" connection with a multimeter and got 12 > volts on the 750. I don't know much about electricity, but is there some > way that it's getting 12 volts but not enough 12 volts, like an Internet > connection that isn't fast enough for streaming video? > > Now that I'm prepping the PC800 to be my trip bike, I'm wondering how to > avoid this problem. YouTube has several videos put up by guys crowing about > the inventive ways they attached a GPS to a bike with no exposed handlebar > tubing, but I don't know how they got power to the GPS. > > If any of you have a real GPS on your bike, not a cell phone GPS, and it > works great, can you tell me what I need to do to get this to work? Maybe > just buy a better GPS and hard wire the mount? But to what? Is the problem > my crappy CycleGear cigarette mount? Or my crappy Garmin Nuvi? Any ideas? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
