VS hardwire GPS

[Ratten]

hey, I have a VS and a Navman S30 navigation unit and i am sick of the wire coming out of it and taking up the one ciggerette plug that my car has :bang: , does anyone know how to hardwire the gps to the car so that it turns off when the cars off and so i dont have the annoying cable there everytime i use it? Thanks Tom

 

[hakhawk]

hard wire a external socket to the existing cigarette lighter wires, and hide it somewhere, plug navman charger into that and run wire to where you mount the navman

 

[Ratten]

Hey thanks for your reply and a quick one at that but thats not really what im looking for i dont want to have to wire up a seperate 12v socket i just want to cut the wire for my gps and connect it to another wire to the car

 

[hakhawk]

you cant do that, as the wire that plugs into the gps is 5v, and the converter is inside the cigarette plug. best you could do is solder wires directly to the plug terminals.

 

[imnothereanymore]

what he said is only way jaycar sell female socket 5 bux wir eit under dash plug in navman

 

[Ratten]

it can be done im just not sure how my step dad got a guy at his work to do it and he just connected the wires from the gps to some other wires just behind the ignition

 

[hakhawk]

i dare you to cut the wires that plug straight into the navman and hook them to 12v, then plug it in!! cant wait to see the warranty form for that one.

 

[Ratten]

the navman cord says "input: 12/24 volt"

 

[imnothereanymore]

yeah the charger is 12v the output is 5
im with hakhawk im waiting for da smoke

 

[hakhawk]

smoke is much harder to put back in than it is to let out

also, the charger is 12/24, but look on the sticker on the navman, should say 5v somewhere from memory.