sat nav, speed pulse

[riddler]

I have recently bought a nice little double din sat nav system out of a honda crv. It is quite simple to fit apart for one thing, for it to be completely accurate i have to connect it to the speed pulse cable! does anybody know the colour and whereabouts of this cable? hope someone can help, cheers.
my beloved is a 3rd gen ssrg.

[Apache]

I would guess that you shouldn't be too worried. I think it is just for times when you lose satellites (ie. in a tunnel) so it works as a simple INU - though not REALLY anything like! It shouldn't take too long to lock up again once the system can see satellites again.

[dirtydog]

I have recently bought a nice little double din sat nav system out of a honda crv. It is quite simple to fit apart for one thing, for it to be completely accurate i have to connect it to the speed pulse cable! does anybody know the colour and whereabouts of this cable? hope someone can help, cheers.
my beloved is a 3rd gen ssrg.

Interesting as I was looking at one of those a while back, before i got the SUrf though, ws it expensive?

[riddler]

speed pulse

Thanx for the reply apache, sounds like its not as important as i first thought, i'll try it and see how i get on.
It was a lot of money dirty dog, but ive just bought another surf and decided to buy the pair of us a chriss y pressy, bend the plastic a bit. i'll let you know if its worth the money.

[mud skipper]

if it important to find a pulse wire it usually can be found behind the existing radio and on a wire from the g/box or even an abs sensor but this is only if the vehicle has abs and an electronic speedo

[riddler]

sat nav

thank you for the reply, thinking about it there was a cable coming from behind the glovebox which could have been going to the original sat nav i suppose. Thanks for that.

[gluemixer]

sat nav

just fitted vdo to mine i found they dont work properly without the pulse conected if you want i will have a look at the drawing and let you now the wire to conect it to. I found mine behind the dash (spedo)


Andy

[riddler]

speed pulse

Iwould love to know, i am going to fit it today so if you could let me know that would be fantastic. cheers.

[dirtydog]

any chance of a pic when your done?
anyone stuck in a unit from a RAV4 or similar? bet they look smart. Kenwood do a double DIN complete screen (7" ish) and looks very nice unlike the price!

[riddler]

sat nav

The one i have is out of a honda crv, and it does look great.I fitted it today, i just have to do between 20 and a 100 mile so it can calibrate itself then its ready to use! hopefully i will have found out where to connect the speed pulse cable. I found a cable coming from behind the air bag on the passenger side which i think is it but need to be sure. i will borrow a camera and take some piccys of the system.

[riddler]

speed pulse

Found it! behind the glovebox there is a cable lilac with red hoops going to a plug where a green cable comes out and goes back into the loom. Thats the speed pulse cable. my sat nav now works fantastically well and looks the muts nuts!!

[dirtydog]

ohoooooooo - piccies?

[Apache]

Did you find out what the speed pulse actuallY does? Sat nav should be completely independant of data from the platform it is fitted to, so, coming from a job which is very involved in sat nav from a military point of view, I'm intrigued to know what you gain from data from the vehicle - mind you, Im also very drunk right now!

[riddler]

speed pulse

This particular system when first installed has to calibrate itself using satellites and the vehicles speed sensing to ensure its accuracy, so until i connected the speed pulse it couldn't calibrate, soon as i did 10 seconds later were away!!!
I will sort the piccys out, it looks great.

[riddler]

piccys

Heres a couple of piccys of my new sat nav system