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hammer down racing
March 11th, 2006, 21:51
I have a question about wiring our gps. It may sound stupid but I don't want to fry our new gps. We have a Lowrance 580 Baja system and the wiring harness has three different leads. One is for power/ground and one is for the antennae. My question is for the third lead. It is a data lead. In the book it says that the data wires are to be wired into either another unit or something else. We only have one gps and I don't know what to do with the data leads. Can I just cap them off? The book is a little vague. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry if this is a stupid question.
Chase 2
March 12th, 2006, 13:06
I'm pretty sure the data lead is for up & down loading data/maps into the unit from your computer. It should have a USB style plug on it and you should be ok to cap it.
hammer down racing
March 12th, 2006, 15:31
The data leads are four wires. There wasn't a usb port. We capped them off and it worked fine. Thanks Craig.
ntsqd
March 13th, 2006, 08:07
The data leads are for sending GPS info to your Auto-pilot. You DO have an Auto-pilot, don't you?
hammer down racing
March 13th, 2006, 19:37
Auto pilot like in an airplane? I didn't know they had that for cars. I'll have to look into that.







Just kidding, I'm not that dumb.
OldStroppeTeam
March 13th, 2006, 19:44
Yeah?? Well you think you're so smart......well check out these folks

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp
hammer down racing
March 16th, 2006, 20:51
Anyone who is that stupid needs to shot. I can't believe how dumb people can be.:confused:
DJDIRTWORKS
April 13th, 2006, 00:15
I believe those data wires can also be used to link your GPS to your radar and fisfinder. Always handy if you break during a race, you can find some fish to catch and eat while you wait to get extracted!
Oh yeah, they can also send cool things like speed and position to a data logger or a video overlay device for your on-board camera.
wrightracing.net
May 3rd, 2006, 00:16
I have a Lowrance 2400 and from what I was told you can have two units linked together so the driver and co-driver get the same info. I have seen a couple guys doing this in thier race trucks.

I love the Idea and might do it in my Class 3 Bronco. We would be able to do different views and info.