Hardwiring Go's Power LEad

Throbber · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 12

Hi All

New to the site, am looking at getting a Tomtom Go 700.

I really hate having leads all over the place in the car and wondered if you can hardwire the car charger lead, rather than plugging it into the cigarette lighter socket all the time.

Can I just cut the end off and connect the the red to a switchable live and earth the black or is there a bit more to it than that?

Thanks.

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:39 am Post subject:

Please DON'T do that. You'll fry your TTG. It runs on a 5Vdc input.
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Throbber · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 12

Thanks.

There must be something in the car charger lead that converts the power, or as soon as you plugged it into the lighter socket it'd fry the Go.

All I want to do is hardwire the charging lead, not hardwire the Go, so I don't have to plug it into the lighter socket all the time.

Darren · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:

The step down electronics are in the charge lead. You could hard wire a cable from the fusebox with a cigarette lighter socket on the end and connect the GO lead to this. All the wires could then be hidden. I have done much the same in my car for all my powered cradles. I used a cigarette lighter extension cable from Maplin, cut off the plug end and wired this to the accessory output on the fusebox (I also added another fuse in the cable for good measure).
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Throbber · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 12

That's a very good idea, thanks Darren.

bmwman · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:41 pm Post subject:

Darren,

That's exactly the route I'm taking to get my TTG wired up on the motorbike.

Regards,
Rich

Darren · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:22 am Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

davewave1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 40

How do you connect up to the fuse box? Is their a blade fuse connector available from anyone?

Darren · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: Fuse box connection

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