On 2010-03-16, Alby <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Mar, 15:07, "David J Taylor" <david- > [email protected]> wrote: >> "Alby" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> >> news:b3ad75d2-08e5-4ac0-9c1f-81ad31174...@g26g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... >> [] >> >> > I still plan to wire it up to the ground, but I'm just double checking >> > that I'm not going crazy. Does everybody else >> > only have 2 Black Wires? >> >> Sensible choice. >> >> Some Garmin cable has three blacks, and some two. ?It might even be that >> the 88 has two, and the 18X three. ?I have all mine wired to ground and >> the end of the cable, and I should have really checked with a meter first >> to see whether they were all wired to ground in the GPS itself. ?I >> innocently omitted this from my Web page: >> >> ?http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm#usb >> >> Cheers, >> David > > > > > Thanks David. Just the man I wanted to get an update from, since I'm > actually following > your website for my build. Below I've included a picture of the wires > coming out of my > Garmin GPS hockey puck. I'm pretty sure I have the 18 and not the > 18x, but what mine > says on the back is (Garmin GPS 18 LVC, 5m). > > So can I assume the extra thin black wire is just an additional > ground wire? > > http://mustang.empire.org/garmingps18.jpg >
I would assume so. It originally came with a plug on the end. That plug has 6 connections to it. How did your 7 wires connect to that 6 pin plug? _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
