Etrex Legend H Cord?

[FaithCacher22]

I have the garmin etrex legend H gps (it's the blue one), and I bought it used with no cords...trying to find one. Someone said it's the 2.0 mini usb and I found them online, we even HAVE them, but there's no place to put it, that I can find. The only place I can find to put anything is at the top, and it's a flat square with 4 metal dots...anyone know what kind of cord I need???

[+BouncingChecks]

I have the garmin etrex legend H gps (it's the blue one), and I bought it used with no cords...trying to find one. Someone said it's the 2.0 mini usb and I found them online, we even HAVE them, but there's no place to put it, that I can find. The only place I can find to put anything is at the top, and it's a flat square with 4 metal dots...anyone know what kind of cord I need???

 

It does not use a normal USB cord. I believe they are called serial cord for what you need. It has a rectangle on the one end that slides in where the 4 metal dots are and then the other end has an end with nine pin holes.

 

I hope this helps a little. I am new to a lot of the tech side of things.

[FaithCacher22]

I think I found the cord you are talking about on ebay, and I think they do make the adapter cord to go from the 9pin to usb, but I haven't found one that looks like it'll match up, and so I'm not sure it's the right one. It looks like they both have the same 9pin end....

[+ecanderson]

I keep thinking that they ought to make this link a "sticky".

 

http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-compatible-In...r/dp/B00073MPBW

 

Look about right?

 

If you don't have a serial port, here's a cable that integrates serial from the Garmin to USB on your PC.

 

http://www.rnrplace.com/store/index.php?ac...mp;productId=34

Edited May 8, 2010 by ecanderson

[jmundinger]

I have the garmin etrex legend H gps (it's the blue one), and I bought it used with no cords...trying to find one. Someone said it's the 2.0 mini usb and I found them online, we even HAVE them, but there's no place to put it, that I can find. The only place I can find to put anything is at the top, and it's a flat square with 4 metal dots...anyone know what kind of cord I need???

 

If that unit requires a serial cable, I think you have an eTrex H (or, the original legend), not a eTrex legend H. The legend H uses a usb cable.

Edited May 8, 2010 by jmundinger

[+coggins]

I have the garmin etrex legend H gps (it's the blue one), and I bought it used with no cords...trying to find one. Someone said it's the 2.0 mini usb and I found them online, we even HAVE them, but there's no place to put it, that I can find. The only place I can find to put anything is at the top, and it's a flat square with 4 metal dots...anyone know what kind of cord I need???

 

If that unit requires a serial cable, I think you have an eTrex H, not a eTrex legend H. The legend H uses a usb cable.

Or more likely he has a regular eTrex Legend as he stated that "it's the blue one", the eTrex H is yellow.

[FaithCacher22]

Yeah I guess it's not an H, sorry for the confusion...it's the legend though, it's blue. Thanks for those links, I'll look into them!