Quote Originally Posted by Hornblower View Post
Why not just connect power to your Garmin using USB? This depends, of course, on exactly which Garmin you have. Some Garmin units must be powered through their special base, otherwise, the screen will not illuminate fully.
The garmin came with two different power supplies, one to hard wire in and one with the cig plug. So I put in the cig receptacle, intending on just plugging it in when I was using it. It wasn't until after I installed the cig outlet, that I realized the 12v plug in was only able to be used with the suction cup, for car use. When using the motorcycle bracket, you must hard wire it in because the bracket covers the 12v cig plug on the back of garmin.

My thought was that it should enable to feed it either way, but it is what it is and now its mounted and works great and I also have a spot now to charge my phone. So all in all it's ended well.