{"id":4054,"date":"2013-12-07T17:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2013-12-07T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:56:07","slug":"trimble-placer-gps-450-power-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4054","title":{"rendered":"Trimble Placer GPS 450 &#8211; power connector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 2 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this pile of Trimble Placer GPS units which I purchased from a sheriff&#8217;s department.\u00a0 These are vehicle tracking GPS boxes.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a Trimble GPS magnetic puck antenna and mounted that outdoors.\u00a0 I was able to get one of these units to run by taking the cover off and hooking up power using clip leads.\u00a0 Kind of messy.<\/p>\n<p>I found the right power connectors.\u00a0 This is an Amphenol 3 pole female mini-XLR with locking ring.\u00a0 Part number AG3FL.\u00a0 It fits great.<\/p>\n<p>So now I am going through all 19 GPS units and plugging in each one, letting it run for about 30 minutes to get the GPS almanac updated and settle in.\u00a0 Some take longer than others.<\/p>\n<p>There is a group on Yahoo Groups which has the serial software, the manual and other stuff for these units, which is really helpful.\u00a0 They have instruction about how to set them up for APRS tracking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=4055\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4055\" alt=\"Trimble GPS\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GEDC0276-700x467.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GEDC0276-700x467.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GEDC0276-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 2 miles] I&#8217;ve had this pile of Trimble Placer GPS units which I purchased from a sheriff&#8217;s department.\u00a0 These are vehicle tracking GPS boxes. I bought a Trimble GPS magnetic puck antenna and mounted that outdoors.\u00a0 I was able to get one of these units to run by taking the cover off and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}