Brandon_Charley
April 27th, 2005, 19:43
Our riding group uses Garmin Rinos, if you don't know its a walky talky with a gps. Its cool because you can always find your way back to camp, and they transmit the location of other users so its good for emergencies too. The only problem is that it can't do any of these things when the batteries are dead, and it drains batteries pretty quick.
Here's where I need help, Garmin sells a car kit so it can run off the cars power instead of the batteries (Its not a charger). It seems like it would be pretty straight forward to cut the car kit and splice into my quads electrical so I could save the batteries for when I'm not riding. I was thinking it might by cool to just get a cigarrette lighter from the junk yard and wire that in, then I could use the car kit in my truck too. How do I make sure that the radio isn't going to draw too much power from my quad? What electrical specs should I look at on the radio (which uses 3 AA batteries, in case that helps)?
I have a 2004 Raptor 660R. I don't really want to get a new stator yet either. Any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Brandon
Here's where I need help, Garmin sells a car kit so it can run off the cars power instead of the batteries (Its not a charger). It seems like it would be pretty straight forward to cut the car kit and splice into my quads electrical so I could save the batteries for when I'm not riding. I was thinking it might by cool to just get a cigarrette lighter from the junk yard and wire that in, then I could use the car kit in my truck too. How do I make sure that the radio isn't going to draw too much power from my quad? What electrical specs should I look at on the radio (which uses 3 AA batteries, in case that helps)?
I have a 2004 Raptor 660R. I don't really want to get a new stator yet either. Any advice is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Brandon