jliltd
Well Known Member
I have two new aera 760 portable GPS units and just received the bare wire/data cables to go with them. I found out with aera 660's it's just as well to go ahead and buy the OEM bare data wire cables when hard wiring to other equipment.
Unlike previous aera's the 760 doesn't have a hard cable coming from the cradle as one unit. With the previous versions each cable had a whole cradle as part of it. With the 760 the cradle is separate from the cable and they connect via a 9-pin D-Sub connector. So the same cradle shipped with the unit can be used with whatever data cable is desired by the owner.
Notwithstanding the fact I have Garmin made bare wire / data cables, I started an installation where the aera 760 will be flush with the panel with the wires invisible so I can make my own harness with a standard-density female D-Sub connector so there isn't any splicing into the factory harness. If the unit is surface mounted or yoke mounted the factory cable is definitely the way to go for cosmetic reasons but when it's hidden a home-made harness works fine. If you have a GDL bare wire cable and want to interface it's wires directly into the D-Sub connector that works too.
There are no drawings or tables of the 760's D-Sub pin outs. The 760 manual only shows the factory data cable with color-coded functions, just like the older aera manuals. So I took the opportunity to do a pin out diagram of the connector on the 760 cradle so I could make my own harness. Here it is UPDATED (thanks Steve):
Unlike previous aera's the 760 doesn't have a hard cable coming from the cradle as one unit. With the previous versions each cable had a whole cradle as part of it. With the 760 the cradle is separate from the cable and they connect via a 9-pin D-Sub connector. So the same cradle shipped with the unit can be used with whatever data cable is desired by the owner.
Notwithstanding the fact I have Garmin made bare wire / data cables, I started an installation where the aera 760 will be flush with the panel with the wires invisible so I can make my own harness with a standard-density female D-Sub connector so there isn't any splicing into the factory harness. If the unit is surface mounted or yoke mounted the factory cable is definitely the way to go for cosmetic reasons but when it's hidden a home-made harness works fine. If you have a GDL bare wire cable and want to interface it's wires directly into the D-Sub connector that works too.
There are no drawings or tables of the 760's D-Sub pin outs. The 760 manual only shows the factory data cable with color-coded functions, just like the older aera manuals. So I took the opportunity to do a pin out diagram of the connector on the 760 cradle so I could make my own harness. Here it is UPDATED (thanks Steve):
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