Garmin Zumo 550

[Lonewolf]

I received my Ebay Zumo 550 yesterday and I'm well chuffed with it. Second hand but it had only ever been used in a car, all the other bits and bobs were still in sealed bags with cables tied up.

My next challenge is how to power it up, the bike cabling has an in line fuse and bare stripped wires, the car cabling has a cigarette lighter connector. It had been my intention to connect the unit to the bike with the cigarette lighter socket, (fused) but as I've just discovered this is on the wrong lead. Does anyone know, can you purchase and connect up cigarette lighter sockets yourself or are they all sealed units?

If I decide to hard wire the unit in which I am happy to do, is there a simple way to do it, i.e. are there any accessible connector blocks around the front of the bike that you could use?


Any advice greatly received.

[Lonewolf]

Somebody has suggested to me that I use the two little pig tails on the left front under side panel for the connection...fused to ACC, I have no idea what this means!!

Also is it easy to get this left front side panel off, assuming I knew which panel they meant?  ::)

[Kwikasfuki]

Yes, its a doddle. See my pics on removing the flies which should give you an idea. Less than 5 mins to access it.

[Lonewolf]

NB, thanks for that, I will have a look. Do you know what these pigtails are that were mentioned?

[Kwikasfuki]

Yes, its a connector under the left fairing. In fact you can probably access it by feeling for it. It's at the top of the fairing, parallel to the forks

[Lonewolf]

Right that sounds like a job for Tuesday when I'm off work. I'll see if is as easy as it sounds. Many thanks.

[Kwikasfuki]

I'll be doing my hyperlites this weekend hopefully, so I'll take a pic for you to show the exact location and colour of wires.

[Lonewolf]

Right I couldnt wait so I thought I'd have a look and see how easy it was going to be.

Got the cover off



Then there is a large black plastic shroud over various electrical bits & bobs. (technical term!)
Hanging down are two wires.....



The power lead on the sat nav has an in line fuse and one black and one red cable. The fuse is wired into the red cable, not sure if that makes any difference or not?
The cables on the bike under the shroud are different colours, one is black & yellow with the gold nipple on the end as you can see in the picture and the other is a black cable with a large plastic sleeve over it.  How do I wire it up from here, both sat nav cables in one of the sockets from the bike and if so which on, one cable from the sat nav lead in each hanging cable from the bike and if so which way around, I'm confused!!!!

[Kwikasfuki]

Its pretty straight forward. Suggest you use this wiring diagram as a reference for your bike. Look at the front accessory connector in the diagram.

On the GTR:
The black and yellow is negative (-)
The black is positive (+)

The red (+) on the sat nav (fuse indicates positive) connect to black (+)
The black (-) on the sat nav connect to black/yellow (-)

I suggest you go to your local electrical store and get the correct connectors to put at the end of the sat nav wiring. Sorry, I have a mental block at the moment and can't remember what they are called Make sure you get them crimped onto your sat nav leads. Once connected, wrap with black tape as a precaution (rain etc).

[Kwikasfuki]

Bullet connectors!

I knew I knew what they were called  ;D

[Lonewolf]

Thanks for that, we have a local Maplins I'll go down there tomorrow.

[Kwikasfuki]

Bear in mind bullet connectors come in different sizes. From the pic, those look like the larger size

[Lonewolf]

Blast, unable to get down to Maplins because it's peeing down, job for tomorrow  now.

[Kwikasfuki]

Same as me - waiting for the rain to go away so I can put the Hyperlites on

[Lonewolf]

I finally got down to Maplins and now have the bullet connectors.  For future reference if anyone wants to connect anything to these spare connectors you will need a connector suitable for 0.4 to 1.0mm cable.

Hopefully I'll get the job finished tomorrow.