evening all

I have bought a Garmin 18 5hz GPS receiver for a bit cheaper than ETB can supply one for...
I want to use it with my digidash pro
only problem is it doesnt have a DB-9 connector on it....

can anyone tell me what colour goes to what pin, I have downloaded the manual, but it seems to contradict itself.

in the table is says

1 yellow measurement pulse output
2 red v in
3 black ground
4 white transmit data
5 black ground
6 green recieve data

but in the diagram for a male DB-9 it seems to show

1 yellow measurement pulse output
2 red v in
3 black ground
4 white transmit data
5 black ground
6 green recieve data 1

pin 1 nothing terminated
pin 2 data out - green
pin 3 data in - white
pin 4 nothing terminated
pin 5 ground


can anyone help please

thanks Gavin




[Edited on 23/5/13 by gavin174]

RS232 DB-9 Female Pin 2 - Garmin Brown, DB-9 Pin3 - Garmin White, DB-9 Pin5 - Black (Ground)
Found this for you done it a long time ago for another use seam to remember its about right do a bit more digging around
To confirm.

thanks for the reply
but even more confussed now.

there is no brown
what do i do with the yellow green and red

Have a look on the sailing forums. People integrate all their stuff all the time, which needs info like this.

thanks Richard

I have spent hours searching, I must be typing the wrong thing in search bar!!

I did it to connect to a logger which only required the data out and ground connected.
As a caution most garmins can handle up to 30 volts in but not all if you are using the car to power it

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Originally posted by woolly
I did it to connect to a logger which only required the data out and ground connected.
As a caution most garmins can handle up to 30 volts in but not all if you are using the car to power it

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This makes sense different types of garmin plugs changes colours


Sod it trying to attach a pdf

i will u2u my email address and you can email it if thats easier

http://priede.bf.lu.lv/ftp/pub/TIS/gps/pcwiring.pdf

I contacted ETB direct...

and this is the reply I got

"You'll need to send it back because unfortunately it is not just the connector we add, we also re-program them.

For what its worth:-

Pin 2 - Green
Pin 3 - White
Pin5 - Black (Combined)
Pin 9 - Red
(Yellow not used)"

so looks like I will have to send it to ETB

Let us know how you get on. I've an ETB & would be interested with the outcome.

Just curious - why are you running a receiver rather than a speed sensor?

I am using the gps for data logging on track rather than for the speedo

I have dropped the antenna into ETB so will let you know......