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Gryphon509
03-23-2012, 10:42 AM
I've been researching for a while on how to do this, and there seem to be several methods of tackling this. My Garmin 1490t has the inline traffic receiver attached to the cord and i want to keep it. So I was wondering if anyone on here has hardwired a Garmin1490T. My thought was to get a female cigarette socket and wire that into the driver side fusebox on a 12v source, that way I keep the voltage regulator of the original power cord, and don't take apart that cord. Can I use an add-a-circuit for this purpose and wire the socket directly and then just plug the gps power cord into it? Tips, suggestions, all are welcome, thanks :)!

AHickman
04-18-2012, 08:18 PM
Sound about right but make sure when you shut the car off it doesn't stay on. Not a big deal but I have that issue now.