I want to make sure I understand where the accessory 12v power wire is located. Attached is a photo of 2 orange/white strip wire tied together with a crimp on quick disconnect. Do I use only 1 of the orange/white strip wire to connect to the red wire of the Garmin AMPS power cradle?

 

The right wire to use is the dirty one...

 

Seriously though - the orange/white is accessory power. Get a male spade to crimp onto the end of the garmin power cord and plug into that female spade. If you were lucky, you might find a neighbor with the tools and supplies to do it for you??? :add_twinkle:

 

Just want to be clear.. I would connect a male spade to the red wire from the Garmin AMPS power cradle then connect that to the 2 orange/white strip accessory wire female spade on the Sportsman 500. I should not separate the 2 orange/white strip wires connected in the female spade. The black wire from the Garmin AMPS power cradle would go to a ground terminal block on the Sportsman 500 (not sure where). Where is a good place to connect the black ground wire from the Garmin AMPS power cradle?

 

Any power source . All it is , is a hot and ground.
I built a sun shield and mine comes on when I turn the key on but I moved the battery up to the rack in front the head light and run a bus where I could hook up a lot of electronics up top instead of doing what your trying to do. All my electronics are high and dry and can stand by the ATV and work on anything.








That moose pouch behind my sun shield is where I keep my cell phone. You can see the USB charger which also shows the voltage. I just run a wire over to that pouch and can charge my phone or two phones while running.






Don't have anything to do with the thread but figured you guys guys would like this.
External speaker for the VHF is black and moved it to this side of the rack and hard case hand gun holder. Like mentioned, everything is high and dry.

 

Dont separate the 2x orange/white - that orange/white wire feeds several accessory locations. The wiring diagram in the back of the service manual should show this I think ?

For the black wire -- any place on chassis will work. There should be a ground on the inside connections of the cigarette lighter.

Attachment is the part of the wiring diagram I am looking at.

 

Correct. DO NOT separate the orange/white wires. The diagram above shows why.

There is a major ground point to the right of the ECM on the top of the frame (when standing in front of the ATV. You will see a cluster of brown wires. You have many options for a ground such as tapping into any brown wire, running to the NEG battery terminal or adding a ring terminal to the existing frame ground point.

Mark

 

If there is a brown wire hanging there -- use that for the black wire. Check that its a ground by checking resistance between that wire and the chassis.

 

Got the Garmin AMPS cradle installed tonight. I receive the GPS tomorrow. For the black ground wire, I connected the bare wire to a bolt on the frame (see attachment). Is that OK? I don't want to ruin my new Garmin Montana 680 GPS.

 

Can someone please confirm the location of the ground wire in my previous post.

 

That bolt on the frame should work just fine for the black ground wire. I am sure there are some other options for ground wire, but if its already there, just use it.