Additional Wiring

[lewisclarke]

Forum Geniuses,

Can someone point me to a good spot to wire my Garmin GPS Montana power wiring to? Maybe there's a thread on this, but I can't seem to find it. A lead to where that is, would be fine too. I am prone to use the plug and play stuff so I am not too confident. I was thinking of splicing into the Aux. plug wiring.

Thanks in advance.

Martin

 

[TXTenere]

Take a look at this thread, which should help you out.
http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=11918.0

 

[EricV]

Do you mean the cigarette power plug wiring? Or the un-used plugs for heated grips and lights? (Might be only one for the '14 bikes)

The draw for the GPS is pretty low. It just comes down to if you want it hot all the time or only with the key on. I'm not familiar with the Montana, so don't know if it has a battery also.

Either way, you're probably fine. If you're going to be adding more electrical stuff, it would be smart to just ad a Aux fuse block, from Eastern Beaver or one of the others that are plug and play and give you some additional fused circuits for later on when you need them.

 

[krussell]

I don't use my 12v socket, so I just tapped in to that. I ran my Montana that way for 8k mi without any trouble.

I just replaced it with a Zumo 590LM, and for that I ran down to an Eastern Beaver 3CS setup, but that's just because I had it available, the cigarette lighter would have worked there as well.

 

[sed149]

Have you decided how you want to mount the gps? The Ram mount kit for montana (links around here somewhere - find the one with the "Garmin Rugged Harness") comes with wire and eyelets, the hot one with covered fuse plug &fuse. Dirt simple - right to battery or the power mounts just above the battery. http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=1851.msg137462#msg137462 I ran with that for 6k miles on 2012 ST - I just yesterday finally added the fuzeblock fz1 for switched power.

 

[lewisclarke]

Thank you for your help. All I have to do now is figure out how to use BaseCamp. Not a very intuitive application, if you ask me. Not that anyone did.

-MG

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