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All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided herein, no part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, transmitted, disseminated, downloaded or stored in any storage medium, for any purpose without prior written consent of GARMIN Corporation. GARMIN Corporation hereby grants permission to download a single...
Limited Warranty from the date of purchase. GARMIN will, at its sole option, repair or replace any components that fail in normal use. Such repairs or replacement will be made at no charge to the customer for parts or labor.
GPS equipment. Although a GPS system is a precision electronic NAVigation AID The GARMIN GPS 16 does (NAVAID), any NAVAID can be misused or misinterpreted, not contain any user-serviceable parts.
Reacquisition: Less than 2 seconds Technical Specifi cations for the Warm: Approximately 15 seconds GPS 16 may be downloaded from the GARMIN web site at Cold: Approximately 45 seconds www.garmin.com/support AutoLocate: Approximately 5 minutes Skysearch: Approximately 5 minutes * Subject to accuracy degradation to 100m 2DRMS under the U.S.
Installation Mounting the Receiver Please read through these instructions thoroughly before Mounting the attempting installation. Make sure you completely understand GPS 16 these instructions before you begin. When in doubt, seek pro- fessional assistance. The following additional items are needed or optional to complete the installation of your GPS 16: •...
Installation Three common sources of interference for GPS units are: Mounting the ABOVE- OK GPS 16 Radar BELOW- OK Radar VHF Radio Antenna When routing the power/data cable, try to avoid: • Sharp edges which may cut the cable. EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) from engine components •...
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Installation Mounting the Wiring the GPS 16 GPS 16 The fi nal step in installing the GPS 16 is to connect the receiver’ s Port 1 DATA IN, DATA OUT, REMOTE ON/OFF and GROUND (Return) lines to your NMEA 0183 device or PC. Port 2 is used for RTCM input only.
(pull down to less than 0.5 volts) and off (open). Otherwise, if the receiver is being wired to a circuit which is Some non-GARMIN devices may already switched, (with the NMEA 0183 device for have a separate data line labeled example) connect the YELLOW wire to the same “RETURN”, “DATA GROUND”...
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Power Source Power/Data Cable & NMEA Device Connection RED: POWER RED: 6-40 VDC BLACK: GROUND BLACK: GROUND GARMIN DGPS WHITE: REMOTE ON/OFF YELLOW: REMOTE ON/OFF GPS 16 GBR 21/23 BROWN: DATA IN BLUE: PORT 1 DATA IN (n/c) Power/Data Cable...
Operation First Time Fix The fi rst time you power up your new GPS 16, the Using the receiver must be given an opportunity to collect satellite GPS 16 data and establish its present position. To ensure proper initialization, the GPS 16 is shipped from the factory in AutoLocate mode, which will allow the receiver to “fi...
GPRMC, PGRMB, Specifi cations” (190-00228-20). You may order a copy of PGRME, PGRMT and these specifi cations from GARMIN or your GARMIN dealer, PSLIB or you may also download a copy from the manuals section of the GARMIN web site at www.garmin.com/support/ userManual.html.