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GPS info - Garmin zumo 660 vs 590
Paco Bulto:
When I first installed my 660 on my Super Tenere, I used the Garmin motorcycle mounting plate and cabling, which, as mentioned has a lot more conductors than needed and you then end up with the mounting plate always installed, even when you don't have the GPS on the bike. When I wanted to use the 660 on my 2 DR350's, I found a simpler method. I used the automotive mounting plate, plus an adapter that has a Ram size ball on one end and the Garmin size ball on the other end. I then bought a hard wire 2 conductor cable that has the plug for the auto mount plate on the other. That would allow me to simply swap the plate and adapter from one DR to the other and all I would have left when not installed was the cable end that plugs into the auto mount. I later just bought another auto mount plate, so I have one for each DR.
NinjaBob:
Wow, Garmin model designations are weird! I assumed the Zumo 6xx series was newer than the 590 and way newer than my 390 but the opposite is true. POI factory has a Garmin release date list http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42240.
stevegrab:
--- Quote from: NinjaBob on February 20, 2017, 01:52:00 pm ---Wow, Garmin model designations are weird! I assumed the Zumo 6xx series was newer than the 590 and way newer than my 390 but the opposite is true. POI factory has a Garmin release date list http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42240.
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Almost as bad as some of the BMW bike stuff where they had a model with a 600ish number that was really an 800 (or vice versa). Or the Triumph Daytona 595 that was really 900-1000ccs.
Thanks again for the feedback everybody.
Brick:
--- Quote from: Paco Bulto on February 20, 2017, 01:43:51 pm ---When I first installed my 660 on my Super Tenere, I used the Garmin motorcycle mounting plate and cabling, which, as mentioned has a lot more conductors than needed and you then end up with the mounting plate always installed, even when you don't have the GPS on the bike. When I wanted to use the 660 on my 2 DR350's, I found a simpler method. I used the automotive mounting plate, plus an adapter that has a Ram size ball on one end and the Garmin size ball on the other end. I then bought a hard wire 2 conductor cable that has the plug for the auto mount plate on the other. That would allow me to simply swap the plate and adapter from one DR to the other and all I would have left when not installed was the cable end that plugs into the auto mount. I later just bought another auto mount plate, so I have one for each DR.
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So Fred... was this a bunch cheaper than buying the normal $40 gps mount? Did you say you wired each bike with the one wire and just moved the mount from bike to bike?
Thanks
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Paco Bulto:
Hi Brick,
This is the automotive mount that is about $40 on ebay. Cheaper than some of the MC mounts, but the advantage that I was looking for was not having to have the MC plate mounted on each of my bikes. Instead I only have to have the hard wire cable on each bike and can then move the GPS and mount to whichever bike I want to use the Zumo on.
The mount is here: http://tinyurl.com/hyfqea4
And the adapter is here: http://tinyurl.com/zjvp9ls
Cable s here: http://tinyurl.com/z44ssu7
These are on ebay. You may find better prices elsewhere, but my objective was easy mounting on several bikes without having the permanent MC mounting plate on each bike.
So, you only need a $10 cable for each bike and then you can move the mounting plate from bike to bike and when not in use, you only have the Ram ball on the bike, instead of the MC plate that comes with the 660. And you don't have those extra wires that are not needed that come with each MC kit.
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