Garmin Wiring Question

[dickenscpa]

I've never been real into the sonars and to be honest never made one work for me until recently. I bought a Garmin Striker 4 for the bow and put the transducer on the TM. For the first time I've seen arches and caught fish this way. Liked this unit so much I removed the Lowrance off the console and installed a Striker 7. I've read for years about people networking them together, etc and thought wow! they know what they're doing. LOL!

 

Now I want to share my waypoints between these two units and they're compatible. I know to connect the blue to blue and brown to brown but what gauge wire are they? I obviously need to build extensions but boat's at home and I planned on stopping on the way home and pick up some wire.

 

TIA

Brad

[12poundbass]

You don’t connect like colors together on both ends though. I’m pretty sure you can just use a thermostat wire, they’re cheap enough. On my Echomap units I have the brown and blue like you said. What I was told on another forum is brown to brown and vise versa on one end then brown to blue on the other end. Hope this helps. 

[Junger]

Yep, you connect the blue to brown for both connections.

 

Unit 1 --------------- Unit 2

Brown----------------Blue

Blue------------------Brown

 

I think they are either 16 or 18 gauge. I bought a waterproof heatshrink kit from Amazon and used the red ones.

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FLYSW7X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

[dickenscpa]

I called Garmin yesterday and they confirmed opposite colors go together. I told them it looked like 20-22 gauge and they said it was more like 26-28 gauge and to use speaker wire.

 

There's a West marine on the way home from the office so I plan to make a pit stop.

 

Now that I actually have the ability to spot structure with fish on it, I want to be able to mark these waypoints and cruise up close with the big motor and get where I want with the TM. So sharing waypoints all the sudden became important to me. LOL!

[Krux5506]

Good to know. Like you, I'm not a huge fan of electronics but I like having the basics. I have the Striker 7 on the bow and want to upgrade the console sometime to the striker 9 SV and link together.

[dickenscpa]

I actually ran the wires thru the gunnel (painstakingly I might add) a week or so ago and it didn't work. I have the Striker 7 on the console and Striker 4 on the bow but they're not sharing. Maybe the 4 doesn't share, but if that's the case they shouldn't put the wires on it making you think it did.

[Junger]

On 9/3/2019 at 9:07 AM, dickenscpa said:

I actually ran the wires thru the gunnel (painstakingly I might add) a week or so ago and it didn't work. I have the Striker 7 on the console and Striker 4 on the bow but they're not sharing. Maybe the 4 doesn't share, but if that's the case they shouldn't put the wires on it making you think it did.

Did you enable data sharing in the software settings?

 

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=ZZ5c7kg45I3hDoL4fhXFd9

 

To enable User Data Sharing:

1. Start on the Home screen
2. Select User Data
3. Select Manage Data
4. Select User Data Sharing and switch to On

[dickenscpa]

Yes sir, I did on both.

[Junger]

30 minutes ago, dickenscpa said:

Yes sir, I did on both.

I think your next best bet is to call Garmin for support. They're very helpful and can help you determine if you have a defective unit.

[Terry McGhee]

Can I wire my garmin striker 4 to the positive and neg. To the wires going to the console. Just hard wire it instead of going all the way back to the battery?

[Alex from GA]

 Yes.