Non Bluetooth GPS?

[OldDog]

Dumb question of the day. I have a Garmin LM-40 non Bluetooth GPS. It has no earphone jack on it. I use it in my car ,of course. Has anyone adapted a non Bluetooth GPS to their Spyder in some fashion that they could hear it through their headset? I'm a cheapskate and hate to think of purchasing a Spyder specific GPS when that time comes.

 

[Farmbanker]

Dumb question of the day. I have a Garmin LM-40 non Bluetooth GPS. It has no earphone jack on it. I use it in my car ,of course. Has anyone adapted a non Bluetooth GPS to their Spyder in some fashion that they could hear it through their headset? I'm a cheapskate and hate to think of purchasing a Spyder specific GPS when that time comes.

Lookerjdc posted this just recently. Might do the trick.... http://www.outdoortechnology.com/Shop/Wireless-Audio/?search=Adapt

 

[billybovine]

Dumb question of the day. I have a Garmin LM-40 non Bluetooth GPS. It has no earphone jack on it. I use it in my car ,of course. Has anyone adapted a non Bluetooth GPS to their Spyder in some fashion that they could hear it through their headset? I'm a cheapskate and hate to think of purchasing a Spyder specific GPS when that time comes.

You could open it up and splice into the speaker wires.

 

[SPYD3R]

MIO 303

2 yrs. ago i bought a MIO 303... NO earphone jack... i openned up the case, drilled a 1/16" hole in the bottom of the back side of the case, bought a RADIO SHACK pig-tail with a volumen control, cut off the male end, passed the loose end thru the hole, spliced the wires, and soldered the 2 wires to the speaker, with the 'female' end and volume control on the outside... made a small wooden adapter to fit the configuration of the handle-bar center-piece, velcro on both pieces, then i plug in my ear-buds and she talks to me... nice...

 

[OldDog]

I did it, but .....
http://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/showthread.php?25161-p#16

I used to be a bench test technician years ago before surface mount technology. I used to burn up the lands on circuit boards while using a hot tip solder sucker. I went to Radio Shack and bought a hand activated plastic solder sucker for $5.00. I saved the company a ton of money on trashed circuit boards and got a pat on the back. All the bench technicians were issued plastic solder suckers and the hot tip was done away with. ( My 15 minutes of fame) :roflblack:

 

[OldDog]

When I first saw a solder sucker I may as well have been shown the Holy Grail.
It was the most useful thing that I could imagine.
I wanted to have been the one to have invented it.

The top of my thigh has permanent indentation where the end of the Solder Sucker goes.
Of course you can suck the traces right off boards too .....

I drilled a hole through my index finger with a Dremel Tool. There was a circuit board that was missing a hole. I held the board up to the light and using my finger as a reference drilled right through it. Ouch... :banghead:

 

[shelbydave]

I bought a Garmin Nuvi 205 for $69, tapped into the speaker wires, and added a 2.5mm jack. I can still use the GPS in my truck or car, as the speaker still works, and when on the Spyder, it is connected to the microphone terminals for the Chatterbox. That way when Garmin speaks, it cuts out the radio.