+infiniteMPG Posted March 29, 2008 Posted March 29, 2008 (edited) Was wondering if anyone has found themselves in this situation. You go away on a little trip and plan on doing some caching while there. You load up the laptop and the GPSr and when you arrive, you search, and search, and search, and can't find your GPSr communication cable! Well, happened to me today. And called all around to Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Dick's Sporting Goods, Sport's Authority, West Marine, everywhere... and no cables in the store. "You can order them online" was the response.... gee, thanks! BUT Best Buy to the rescue. Ran to a local Best Buy and found that a Motorola Mini USB to USB Data Cable (around $19) works GREAT for my GPS MAP60C. Not sure what cables othere GPS's use but I have not seen this noted anywhere that a standard off the shelf cable can do the trick. Sure as heck didn't want to start manually entering all the coords!! How barbaric!!! hehehehe Just thought I'd pass that along if anyone else got into this spot. Edited March 29, 2008 by infiniteMPG Quote
+Pserine Posted March 29, 2008 Posted March 29, 2008 Ran to a local Best Buy and found that a Motorola Mini USB to USB Data Cable (around $19) works GREAT for my GPS MAP60C. Not sure what cables othere GPS's use but I have not seen this noted anywhere that a standard off the shelf cable can do the trick. Sure as heck didn't want to start manually entering all the coords!! How barbaric!!! hehehehe Just thought I'd pass that along if anyone else got into this spot. eTrex legend HCx also uses mini USB to USB Data. Got a spare for 6 bucks. Quote
+pigpen4x4 Posted March 29, 2008 Posted March 29, 2008 That is one of the reasons I am fond of my Zire31 as well. It too uses a mini usb, so does my new Blackberry. One cable now does it all. I'm sure other PDA's also use mini USB also. PP4x4 Quote
+SWAK9802 Posted March 30, 2008 Posted March 30, 2008 Any recommendations for the Magellan Explorist 500LE cable? I haven't found myself in that situation yet, but it's nice info to have on hand if it comes up. Quote
+infiniteMPG Posted March 31, 2008 Author Posted March 31, 2008 eTrex legend HCx also uses mini USB to USB Data. Got a spare for 6 bucks. I am sure I could do better then the $19 on Ebay or online somewhere, but in a crunch the $19 was worth the saving of manually typing in tons of geocache coords. Hmmm, kind of wonder why all these GPS manufacturers don't state that the comm cable is simply just a mini-USB to USB cable rather then making it sound like some proprietary thing.... Money talk$??? Quote
+Red90 Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 It is just a normal USB cable. They should never cost more than a few dollars. Best Buy and such are the greatest rip off artists in the world with respect to cable costs.... Quote
+Red90 Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 (edited) http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-A-to-mini-USB-B-5-...1QQcmdZViewItem $3 delivered as an example. Dollars stores are good places to get hings like this cheap. Edited March 31, 2008 by Red90 Quote
+victorymike Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 I've bought several electronics devices lately and have been pleasantly surprised that all of them are usb driven and have the same tophat looking end connection as my GPSs. External hard drive, card reader, my Garmin Zumo, Garmin GPSMAP76C, and Colorado 400t all use the same usb cable...so I have 5 data cables. One I have at work, one at home, one in my laptop bag and spares. Wow! Quote
+wandering4cache Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 (edited) I use the same USB cable for 3 Canon cameras & 2 Garmin GPS. Makes live easy. If I remember correctly, the cable came with one of the cameras. Seems I have multiple extras hanging around too now. Edited April 1, 2008 by wandering4cache Quote
+TakeTheLongWay Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Ditto what others said $19 for a simple usb cable is nuts. Quote
+infiniteMPG Posted April 2, 2008 Author Posted April 2, 2008 Ditto what others said $19 for a simple usb cable is nuts.Agree but in a pinch it's better then driving a couple hours to get a cheaper one or back home to get the one we forgot. And that's the same that Garmin charges. Hoping to not find myself back in that pinch again. After years and years it was the first time, so now with multiple cables it shouldn't be an issue ::crossing fingers:: Up until this happened I didn't realize (and from the sound of the posts I don't think many others did either) that the data cable for the GPSr was a 'standard cable'. Quote
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