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Need electrical help hardwiring a GPS on my bike.
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<blockquote data-quote="Weathergeek" data-source="post: 86776" data-attributes="member: 77"><p>I have a Magellan 210 GPS on my bike. There is nothing on the market that currently exists that allows me to hardwire it directly from my battery to my GPS. The only thing close is a plug that goes from the back of the GPS to a 12 volt adapter receptacle. For the last couple of years, I have opened the male part of the 12 plug and had somebody solder the wires from the battery directly to the circuit board in the male adapter, closed it up and I was good to go. Recently it went bad (circuit board).<img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/foul.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":foul:" title="Foul :foul:" data-shortname=":foul:" /> I tried to solder another 12 volt adapter and failed miserably.<img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/bonk.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bonk:" title="Bonk :bonk:" data-shortname=":bonk:" /> The circuit board acts as reducer, reducing the volts from 12 vollts DC to 5 volts DC to power the GPS so I don't fry it.</p><p> </p><p>So my thought is that there has to be some sort of "electrical reducer" that I can hardwire directly with no soldering to a circuit board that goes from 12 volts to 5 volts. Therein lies the question. I am hoping that one of you electrical wizards have an idea if something like this exists and if so, where I would get it. Or some other way to accomplish what I want to do. HELP!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weathergeek, post: 86776, member: 77"] I have a Magellan 210 GPS on my bike. There is nothing on the market that currently exists that allows me to hardwire it directly from my battery to my GPS. The only thing close is a plug that goes from the back of the GPS to a 12 volt adapter receptacle. For the last couple of years, I have opened the male part of the 12 plug and had somebody solder the wires from the battery directly to the circuit board in the male adapter, closed it up and I was good to go. Recently it went bad (circuit board).:foul: I tried to solder another 12 volt adapter and failed miserably.:bonk: The circuit board acts as reducer, reducing the volts from 12 vollts DC to 5 volts DC to power the GPS so I don't fry it. So my thought is that there has to be some sort of "electrical reducer" that I can hardwire directly with no soldering to a circuit board that goes from 12 volts to 5 volts. Therein lies the question. I am hoping that one of you electrical wizards have an idea if something like this exists and if so, where I would get it. Or some other way to accomplish what I want to do. HELP! [/QUOTE]
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