GPS Connection

[Neil]

Hi can any one tell me what the voltage is coming from the plug under the fuel tanking left side that you plug the BMW GPS pickup in to, is it 12 volt or 5 volt as my GPS requires

[Clem]

12V

[mogu83]

Neil - I think my plug was on the right (brake) side. Don't remember what the voltage was I just checked the polarity and plugged it into my Garmin. Been working for 50K.

[deilenberger]

It's on the starboard side, and it's 12V. If your GPS requires 5V, you'll need to adapt the automobile adaptor that comes with it to the wiring on the bike. Might be a better (more expensive obviously) plan to find a motorcycle specific GPS (for lots of other reasons also.)

[Neil]

You are right of course the plug is on the RIGHT side the problem was I wired my NAVMAN in using the BMW plug with a 12v to 5v adapter but the NAVMAN is the only GPS on the market that you can't get a proper motorcycle mount for so I got a crappy one off the INTERNET and first outing it fell off braking the plug into the GPS .
So I got a new cable and spliced it into the broken one soldering the wires to the same color the problem was the earth was not the same color and it took weeks to find a female minny usb with a cable that I could use to test the voltage and I had voltage but all over the place, the GPS showed it was charging by the icon on it but it was not.
Now I have said adapter and was able to find the correct earth I now have 5v and am happy all I now need to do is work out why my SENA SMH10 intercom dose not want to connect to the GPS and my wife at the same time

[deilenberger]

all I now need to do is work out why my SENA SMH10 intercom dose not want to connect to the GPS and my wife at the same time

Undoubtably the SENA has the common sense to know that in any argument involving directions, your wife is going to be correct..

[Neil]

Don you are correct but the thing is I don't want the GPS for directions but to alert me to in pending SPEED CAMERAS and to tell me when I have reached the maximum speed limit with out constantly watching the speedo as hear in the POLICE stat of VIC in Australia the maximum speed limit is 100 KPH and you only have a 2 KPH leeway at 3 KPH over you are nicked and as we all know that is about .005 of a second or 3 meter inattention the last .005 of a second inattention cost me $285.00 and I was going down hill and pinged by a unmarked Highway Patrol Car with mobile radar nearly a kilometer away not happy

[websterize]

In addition to directions, tunes and audiobooks, proximity alerts is one of the primary reasons I almost always motor with the GPS, especially in downtown D.C. and Montgomery County, Md. http://www.poi-factory.com is always updating its database. You can upload the lat/lon coordinates of the speed- and red-light locations directly to your GPS.

In my TDI, I have the legacy spousal alert system. Always up to date …

[mogu83]

A little off subject --- BUT do we have speed cameras in the US. I didn't think they were allowed.

[roadfool]

A little off subject --- BUT do we have speed cameras in the US. I didn't think they were allowed.

I think you're right, but we do have red light camera here in Florida, the land of the worlds worst drivers........ Of all ages!

Regards, Paul

[roadfool]

Yesterday I took a quick look and didn't see anything that I recognized as a GPS connector on my '11.

Do I need to remove the tank to get at it?
Can someone post a picture of the connector please...

Regards, Paul

[websterize]

More than 100 speed cameras in D.C. -- http://mpdc.dc.gov/page/speed-camera-locations

Not really a state. More of an occupied state.

[websterize]

Do I need to remove the tank to get at it?

No, but locking the bars all the way to the clutch side will help you get your hands on it.

Can someone post a picture of the connector please...

Here it is on the camheads. Look for the red wire. Cut off the zip tie affixing it to the frame and remove the black plastic cap.

[mogu83]

A little off subject --- BUT do we have speed cameras in the US. I didn't think they were allowed.

I think you're right, but we do have red light camera here in Florida, the land of the worlds worst drivers........ Of all ages!

Regards, Paul

I don't have a problem with the red light cameras. Anyone that runs a red or jumps a green on a motorcycle is a special type of person that likely won't be around long. Too many variables for that to work too many times.
Speed cameras would be a BIG problem. I'm surprised that the Aussies allowed them, first they let the government take their guns and now this. What's going on down there, sounds like some socialist European country.

[Neil]

This is getting off subject but I do wonder if we have gone old stile communist here in VIC we have just over three million people and the stat budgets a five hundred million dollar a year revenue from speeding fines increasing by 15% per annum that makes us the highest fined country in the world as far as I can find out .
A new freeway was built approx 20 Km long with 120 separate cameras before it was completed and open the find estimates were one hundred and twenty million per year and by the way radar detectors are illegal and Police cars have detector dertecters

[Newportcycle]

A little off subject --- BUT do we have speed cameras in the US. I didn't think they were allowed.

We had them all around Maryland, Ive got several nice mug shots of my car's rear end and a fee for the photo. I hate the things, nothing but Government atm machines, have been proven to do nothing about speed control. Some folks near our old neighborhood in Md got sick of one on a busy local street and would go out at night and put a garbage bag over the thing.

[websterize]

The cameras are still here and as profitable as ever.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8& ... 2a64a8ff9e

[deilenberger]

I'll second the suggestion of the speed-camera POI files. I run a seperate GPS that can take custom proximity alert POI's in the 4 wheelers when I travel down through WDC area, even though the 4 wheeler's GPS is doing the navigating (there is no way to add the POIs to them.)

Well worth the tiny subscription fee to POI-Factory. One ticket cost me $190.. went to the WDC website to pay it, and saw nothing about safety, just all about how happy they were with the $30,000,000 they had collected in the prior 6 months.

It's a racket I tell'ya.. a racket.. (from some old movie.)