Navigon 5100 12V Cig Adapter & Garmin Adapter??

 

Question, has anyone tried using a 12V power adapter for one manufacturer, on another manufacturer's GPS? I have a Nuvi 660 and a Navigon 5100...is 12V just 12V and the adapters would be safe and OK to inner change to keep from having to change to seperate ones each time?

sidvic999 wrote: Question,

sidvic999 wrote:

Question, has anyone tried using a 12V power adapter for one manufacturer, on another manufacturer's GPS? I have a Nuvi 660 and a Navigon 5100...is 12V just 12V and the adapters would be safe and OK to inner change to keep from having to change to seperate ones each time?

The problem will be the connector into the GPS. I know on mine the there is a custom pinning in the mount to handle the DC plus the data for MSN/FM.

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What you're saying, is that

What you're saying, is that even though the conection would slide together using either 12v adapter, there'd possibly be a hot wire mis-match. It'd be interesting to probe the pins on my Garmin and my Navigon for commonality. Thanks.

Bumped.

Bumped

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list of pin outs on different GPSr's 5 pin mini-USB jacks.

PCPro wrote:
sidvic999 wrote:

Question, has anyone tried using a 12V power adapter for one manufacturer, on another manufacturer's GPS? I have a Nuvi 660 and a Navigon 5100...is 12V just 12V and the adapters would be safe and OK to inner change to keep from having to change to seperate ones each time?

The problem will be the connector into the GPS. I know on mine the there is a custom pinning in the mount to handle the DC plus the data for MSN/FM.

This should help all that need to know the pin outs on different GPSr's.

http://tinyurl.com/yp6ok7

Bob

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Amperage

You'll definately need to check amperage output as well, or you could potentially fry your unit.

Both my Magellan and Motorola cel phone have a USB charger but the cel wall charger only has 550mA output, but the Magellan cigarette lighter charger is 2 amps. Be careful.

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