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01-28-2008, 11:22 PM
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| In Training   Join Date: Sep 2007
Bike: Suzuki M50 Limited Edition 2007
Location: Western North Carolina
Posts: 146
|  Wiring the M50 for GPS unit
My wife bought me a Garmin Street Pilot C330 unit for Christmas. After trying it out in our car I decided it should work okay on my bike. I just ordered a RAM handlebar mount for the unit tonight. The suction cup windshield mount that came with it for use in the car actually mounted on both the inside of my motorcycle windshield or on my gas tank, but I was afraid the vibration might pop it loose, so I ordered the RAM mount system. My question now is regarding wiring the unit for use on my M50. From a previous post I've gotten a number of ideas and believe I'll try to wire it to the extra set of wires I'm told are provided inside the headlight cavity. I still want to be able to use the unit in our car, so I don't want to cut off the cigarette lighter plug on the power cord that came with the unit. I was thinking of picking up a cigarette lighter plug at an auto parts store, assuming they sell them, and then wire that into the headlight and figure out some way to mount it up near the GPS unit. Has anyone else tried this sort of setup? If so, any suggestions on where to get the cigarette lighter receptacle and how to waterproof it? Any ideas on how to mount the receptacle? Thanks for any input. |
