BCD996T and GPS

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garipay

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I called Uniden today concerning nthe BCD996T and the GPS. I was told that the GPS must be NEMA compliant, so most factory installed system will not work. Any idea which GPS barnds/models are MEMA compliant? I'm lost on this one.
 

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Most are NEMA compliant, its a pretty popular protocol.
 

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I doubt any that are factory installed in a vehicle have serial output. You might try googling to see, i.e. "Lexus 123XY GPS serial output" .. but don't hold your breath. Might also try replacing "serial output" with "hack".. but some of us are a little leery of messing with car electronics these days... imagine leaning over the dash and instead of tapping into the + wire for the GPS, you get the + wire for the airbag.. :eek:

For my money, if I didn't have a GPS that I was already using for other purposes (i.e. a hand-held mounted on my car's dash), I'd go with something like the Garmin GPS18. It's a little magnetic puck you put on your roof and it sends NMEA (or Garmin protocol, but NMEA is what we want for the 996) data along a serial cable continuously. No display, no user interface, just plug it in and go.

GPS 18 - http://www.garmin.com/products/gps18/
OEM version (unknown if this is better for the 996 user, read and see) - http://www.garmin.com/products/gps18oem/index.jsp
 

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Jay said:
I doubt any that are factory installed in a vehicle have serial output.
Most of them do, but ...
some of us are a little leery of messing with car electronics these days... imagine leaning over the dash and instead of tapping into the + wire for the GPS, you get the + wire for the airbag.. :eek:
Well, little possibility of that - you have to open the GPS to get to the serial interface ... which is even worse, I guess. (There are a few sites that have pictures of people doing this mod to various factory installed GPS systems.)
 

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I just went out and bought the Garmin GPS 18. I got it at Provantage. Go here. That is the OEM version that doesn't come with any software. Also make sure you get the one that uses the serial interface, not the USB interface. If you want one that you can also hook up to a laptop get the normal version with software, again make sure you get the serial version.

They charge about $68 for the OEM version. I don't think you can beat that.

Personally I use the gps 10 bluetooth with my PDA and I bought the full version gps 18 for the 996 and my laptop.
 
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