Yeah. You just have to get the compatible SAE plug and solder it to the wires from the motorcycle mount power cord. And you have to attach something there -- the ends of that power cord are just bare wires when you get it from Garmin.
If that's the case, then I misunderstood the question. I thought he was asking if the GPS can be hooked up to the battery tender pigtail attached to the bike -- or, at least, that's the question I answered.What I'm about to mention may not be an 'issue' in this (these) case/s? .... But, many electronic devices are 'uncomfortable' with DC voltage produced from rectified AC. They may be intended for 'straight line' DC (like you get from a battery)?Also, I may not be understanding the question? But it sounds to me like you want to run a GPS (and other accessories) off a battery charger? I wouldn't advise it. Battery charger output is not the same as battery voltage.
I may not be the final answer, here?..... Others more knowledgeable will probably be along shortly. :huh:
Looks like -- I just didn't get it....? :blink: :huh: Others seem to have interpreted the question correctly.If that's the case, then I misunderstood the question. I thought he was asking if the GPS can be hooked up to the battery tender pigtail attached to the bike -- or, at least, that's the question I answered.
If your interpretation is right, that he wants to hook it up directly to the battery tender to, I don't know, charge it off the bike? The answer would be no, don't do it. Uh-uh. Bad juju.
I guess I'm way too literal?
That's what I said. Bad juju.Let’s get explicit here.
Take your battery charger and connect it directly to your electronic gizmo’s DC wires with no battery involved = Very Bad.
Take your Battery Tender and connect it directly to your electronic gizmo’s DC wires with no battery involved = Very Bad, potential to be worse than a battery charger.
Connect the battery charger/tender to a battery, any good battery, THEN connect the electronic gizmo to the battery = Good.
Most brute force battery chargers output ½ wave AC with some current limiting. The battery acts like a giant capacitor and filters the charger’s output, resulting in DC with perhaps a lot of ripple (AC) riding on top of the DC.
Battery Tenders sense the condition of your battery – but wait, there is no battery, only the electronic gizmo. If the Battery Tender decides your gizmo needs to be de-sulfated, your gizmo may very well release all its magic smoke in response. A battery tender senses battery voltage – but wait, there is no battery, so the Tender no longer knows how to regulate current until it sees a small voltage drop, the way a battery would normally respond to charging.
When you hook a charger directly to any electronic device without a battery being involved means that the electronic device’s internal noise filtering components have to eat all the AC from the charger. Your gizmo's input filter will have to do this while attempting to clean up the charger’s output voltage enough for internal consumption. This will beat the snot out of the electronic's input filter.
But wait, you say you have done this very thing and everything works fine... A man climbed up the stairs to the roof of a 6 story building. Then he jumped off the roof. As he passed the second floor, the person sitting next to the open window distinctly heard the jumper say, “So far, so good!”
my question was, when i install the pigtail of the tender( the one that gets wired to the battery) on the battery.when it is not being used to charge the battery. can it be used to power an accesory. Not charge the GPS with the tender. Just wondering if garmin or someone else had an after maket power cord.
