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Rebel Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 21, 2003 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject: Hard wired car kit |
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I've just purchased TomTom 2 with the car kit, my car is a Peugeot 406, this has the cigarette lighter adjecnt to the gear lever in the centre console. As you can imagine the lead gets in the way.
I'm going to hard wire the power supply to a point behind he radio, this will give me a much neater set up. My question is this, when not using the car will I need to pull the plug on the car mount or can I leave the power on all the time? If it is not advisable to leave the power on all the time I might fit a switch.
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Dave Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 10, 2003 Posts: 6460 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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You can leave it plugged in. I'm presuming you're talking about hard wiring it to the battery ? If so it just means that the receiver will always be powered, saving on the time for Time To First Fixes. |
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JJ28 Occasional Visitor
Joined: 12/08/2003 20:27:16 Posts: 31 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject: Hard wire |
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If you wire in the supply to an ignition fed supply, when you turn the ignition off this will cut the power supply. |
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Rebel Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the advice, I think I'll go for allways on.
regards
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Mark R Penn Regular Visitor
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caspar Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Just to add my experiences, I've hard-wired my Royaltek Sapphire GPS into my VW Passat. I'll eventially get around to posting some photos...
Basically I cut the wiring loom behind the 12V Cig lighter. Attached a cable block and wired in a slave lighter socket (in addition to the standard one). I was then able to plug the GPS into the slave power supply (behind the dash) and conceal the cables to the GPS mouse and to the PDA cradle.
Works a treat |
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TonyP Regular Visitor
Joined: 07/01/2003 17:12:34 Posts: 94 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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It definitely helps fix times if the GPS is powered even if you are not using the PDA.
Make sure that the power supply is cut when you remove the ignition key though. The GPS uses around 200-300mA so it will drain the battery in a few days if you dont use the car. |
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Rebel Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject: sorted |
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All sorted, wired it into the radio supply, shuts down after 30 mins if the ignition is off and looks a whole lot neater.
Thanks to all for the advice.
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