Purchase and installation of a GPS-navigator - Toyota Sprinter Trueno, 1.6 L, 1999

Purchase

"A shoemaker without boots" is a familiar saying?) So, until recently, it was about me) Satellite radio navigation systems, or rather the equipment of their consumers - is my bread. But in the abyss of signal processing algorithms, a personal receiver did not appear in any way, although all the prerequisites were: there was a car, in Moscow it always moved underground, and as a result, I do not know land roads, we go with my wife to our relatives near Chelyabinsk across the whole country ...

Once, having woken up on Sunday, having poured a cup of coffee, I went to www.gtextreme.ru/forum and saw the message of one good person:

To be honest, it seemed to me that all normal civil GPS receivers cost from 7 tr. Although, in comparison with special receivers, this is a differentially small amount, I was somehow crushed by a toad and I used a map of Moscow for 120 rubles))) Seeing the amount of 2900 rubles, coupled with a positive review, I immediately made a decision - take it! At least for self-education)

On the Eldorado website, I did not find information about the sale, so I placed an order for 3199 (sort of like 200 rubles discount from 3399 due to ordering on the website). Two hours later I went to pick up ...

Impression

Overall impressions are positive.

Subjective pluses: high-quality licensed Russian program, high-quality thin, pleasant-to-touch body, quite usable touch screen, many fans on the net (and hence firmware, tips, Kulibins, etc.).

Technical advantages: new SirFatlasIV chip, 128 MB of RAM, WinCE 6.0, NPO Avtosputnik. I haven't figured it out yet, but most likely the atlasIV includes the SirF Star IV GPS module, which means the sensitivity and search speed of which ourmilitaryspecial receivers can only dream;) Also Atlas includes ARM11 with 500 MHz with all the consequences ... I must say that I was very surprised by these characteristics, since they correspond to advanced developments and differ in a positive way from the descriptions of this model, which I saw on the net on the official website (!).

The disadvantages include: a disproportionately large holder and, apparently, the unintentional connection of Internet sources (and without the Internet there will be no information about traffic jams). I solved the first problem, the second is also solvable in theory.

Installation

It's good for bus drivers ... you can hang at least a dozen posters on the front, they will not interfere anyway ... And our windows are like in tanks))

One of the first thoughts on where to put the device is to install it in a small glove compartment under the fuses to the right of the steering wheel. He got up there fine, but ... but this model has a built-in antenna. A series of experiments showed that, after all, under a torpedo, the diffraction of 20 cm waves does not save (

An interesting option is to put instead of the speedometer, ala Civic)) But I did not dare to do this)

I remember one of the first impressions after buying a car - indignation at the occupation of a blinking Japanese man (to the left of the emergency gang, a light about an unfastened passenger seat belt) of a large part of the panel. It was decided to replace it with a navigator)!

1. First, remove the panel ... Pull it towards you - it is on the spacers.

2. Then we unscrew the block, which includes the removable indicator and the emergency stop button.

3. We take out the indicator with the control scheme, put it away for saving.

4. We disassemble the leg of the GPS receiver, we need this thing:

5. We look at the block in which the passenger's belt indicator was previously located ...

6. Thinking ...

7. We take a self-tapping screw and a bolt, by heroic efforts we make a threaded hole for a bolt from the left end of the block. The fastening leg will then be screwed onto this bolt, based on this it is necessary to choose the place of "drilling". BUT! The block is installed at an angle, you must take this moment into account and initially screw the bolt at a compensating angle (see below):

8. Screw the block back to the panel.

9. We pass the USB power cable through the hole from the indicator. Similarly, you can immediately lead the audio cable to the radio and then watch movies;)

10. We put the bracket on the bolt.

11. Recalling the entire stock of obscene language, we put on and tighten the nut through the hole on top.

12. So that the bracket does not dangle and the panel does not scratch, we fill the space between them with something, I wound up the electrical tape (in the photo there is the removed bracket, I forgot to hold the cable):

13. We take the voltage converter to the ashtray wiring. On the converter: two plates - ground, tip - 12V. At the ashtray: hallmarks on the right (the left one is responsible for the backlight), gray wire - 12V, white-black - ground.

// At this point I killed the converter. He shorted 12 to the ground, a microcircuit burned out from a spark (a pulse stabilizer inside the converter).

14. Carefully collect everything back, enjoy)

Total we got:
- safety of all elements included in the receiver kit;
- the rigidity of the structure (the angles can be adjusted by adding the sealing material);
- the receiver does not interfere with the view, does not block the controls / controls;
- wires do not hang;
- ease of removal / installation of the receiver in a regular place;
- the passenger can watch movies).