Making it part of the car?

CraigL · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 02, 2004 Posts: 7

Has nyone done this, or know if it's possible, to get a wire from some power source besides the lighter socket? Maybe modify the cable (or safer yet, get a cable made up) that can be connected to the power sockeyt on the GO, and then conceeled and connected somewhere else in the car ... like the battery?

Sniff · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:39 pm Post subject:

I beleive there is (or soon will be) a professional fitting kit available from TomTom that allows you to do a permanent installation not utilising the cigarette lighter. It supports mute of a (suitably equipped) radio also.

Check the TomTom website

CraigL · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 02, 2004 Posts: 7

Interesting. Thanks for that.
I checked the site but can't find any info on this. Do you have a direct link?

Sniff · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:03 pm Post subject:

There's not much on the site, admittedly. But if you search for accessories for TomTom GO, you'll find this little snippet:

TomTom GO - Professional Docking KIT
TomTom GO Professional docking kit for direct connection to your car power supply and audio system will be available at the end of year 2004.

Gerco · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Posts: 25

Hi,

I found a box to connect any kind of PDA and phone to your car stereo.
For all kind of car stereo
No PhoneIn, no Mute necessary

Short spec

2 inputs (PDA AND Phone)
2 volume control for this
Mutegerator for PDA and Phone with offset adjust (if necessary)
Time to generate mute signal : <5ms
MuteOut for Car Radio
Fall back 2s after PDA off
Autodetection for MP3 files(music) from PDA
Fallback now 20s
Built in 10W sin = 30W RMS high quality audio amplifier
2 relais to switch over from PDA to loudspeaker(30W each) car stereo
In this case no car radio MuteIn necessary
Fused and filtered output for PDA powersupply (1A)
Connection to PDA with earphone jack only
Solderless wiring
Price: app 90 Euro

Full text can be found here (only in German)
http://home.tiscali.de/fastmute/

If there someone is interested I will translate.

Gerco

Old_Phil · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:42 pm Post subject:

There is a posting on this forum for professional docking kit - it's a dutch document and shows an rrp of 249 euros! (ouch!)

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=13566

There has also been much discussion on a diy charger, which started after a number of GOs were fried by faulty in-car chargers. The thing to note here is that the GO requires a 5v supply - so you MUST NOT wire it up to your car battery directly - else the smoke will leak out of your GO!

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