Garmin 26xx/27xx series and no powercable? Here's what to do.

[DELETE-PLEASE]

Ok. My experiment panned out. I found my old 27xx Garmin, but don't have any power cables. And I started looking around and it's 15 dollars for a wall outlet and even MORE for a bike or car outlet!

So I did some research, and bought ONE outlet can now can do anything.

Very simply, the wall outlet is 120 in, 12 volt out. Which means the connector that comes with it will work on any car/motorcycle circuit. So you can buy a wall outlet for $15. Then go to autozone and buy a cigarette adaptor that splits one cigarette outlet into two (about $7). Then buy two SAE connectors in the trailer section of said autozone (about $4). Then buy an inline fuse with a 3 AMP glass fuse (waterproof would be nice - another 5 bucks or so) Total money invested, about $30 bucks.

Cut the wall outlet in the middle and solder/connect two SAE connectors on either end. Make sure the part that is in the wall has the exposed prong as negative, and the other part will then have the exposed prong as positive.

Cut the cigarette splitter in the middle. You can dissassemble to see which wire is positive and which is negative, and do the same with the two SAE connectors (part with the cigarette male plug has exposed prong as negative. The part with the cigarette outlet will have the exposed part as negative, soldered to the corresponding negative or "outside"part of the sleeve).

Now for a total of 30 bucks, you have a GPS cable you can connect in the wall. Then take it and connect it to your bike VIA sae cable. Or plug it into a cigarette outlet on the bike or car. PLUS, you now have an SAE to cigarette socket adaptor, and an SAE to cigarette male adaptor. So any bike items you buy that have an SAE plug (battery tender? Air compressor? Whatever you buy) you can use off of a car, or your stock cigarette outlet, or convert a cigarette plug to SAE if that's what you have on your bike instead.

I'm creating an adaptor for pretty much everything so in an emergency situation, I can run anything off my bike, or run anything made for a bike off a car. Only takes a few bucks for an SAE plug and some cutting and soldering. Just be sure to check if a device needs a fuse that it's either inline with the device, or that your SAE plug on the bike is fused correctly.

Alexi

 

[Justin]

A quick note on the above. Make absolutely certain you get the polarity right when wiring these. I learned that the hard way when I used my old 2720 as a fuse .

 

[DELETE-PLEASE]

A quick note on the above. Make absolutely certain you get the polarity right when wiring these. I learned that the hard way when I used my old 2720 as a fuse

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Oh yeah! Rule of them that I'm following, if it's on the actual accessory side, the exposed plug is positive. EVERYTHING ELSE, the exposed plug is negative. Which means the black and red wires don't ALWAYS line up like they should on my SAE connectors, but as long as it's MY bike, I know I got it right.

Alexi

 

[creg-ny-baa]

A quick note on the above. Make absolutely certain you get the polarity right when wiring these. I learned that the hard way when I used my old 2720 as a fuse .

Me too. Anybody need 2720 parts?

 

[blassoff]

A quick note on the above. Make absolutely certain you get the polarity right when wiring these. I learned that the hard way when I used my old 2720 as a fuse

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Me too. Anybody need 2720 parts?

I'll take the touchscreen and the bike hardwire if you got em?