JJC GNS 430 POWER CABLE

They really love their Garmin GNS-430 and don’t have many complaints about its performance or functionally. One drawback was when it came to entering flight plans into the system. Their test aircraft Aerobelle spends a lot of its time flying cross-country flights making it necessary to program several different flight plans into the system. Usually this means doing it in the hanger before flight but it puts a drain on the battery often requiring an external power source to compensate. If they do it after engine start ` waste valuable fuel while taking time to enter the information.

They know that there are plenty of systems out there to solve this problem, but they wanted to develop a low cost method for providing power to the GNS-430 so that programming could be performed easily without killing the batteries or wasting fuel. They came up with this power cable setup that allows you to power the GNS-430 from a standard automobile DC power plug. You can also turn it into an AC powered system by using a DC power supply such as Radio Shack’s catalog number 22-507 (shown in the pictures).

One of the main benefits of using the DC power supply would be to be able to train on the real system in addition to programming flight plans. To use this cable simply remove the GPS from the rack (removal tool is included in package), plug one end of the adapter into the back of the GPS and the other end into a standard DC power outlet.