Larry's pPlug. For GPS 45,II,III, etc. (Drawing by Pfranc Ivo Stiner, 3/01) for a Garmin GPS -- The first ShareHardware project!
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  1. Click here if you want plugs for: eMap®, etrex®, and geko , work with our "E" type plugs: For eTrex and eMap (Drawing: Ivo Steiner 3/01) and our newer "flat one"
    --- CLICK on the plugs above if you have a eTrex or geko.
  2. If you want plugs for the RINO click here: rPlug - for the Garmin RINO.
    NOTE: This new plug is much smaller with a diameter about the size of a pencil (7mm) than our normal round plug (see below).

  3. And plugs for other Garmin models, ( 1/2 inch round plug with 4 or 5 pins ): Please read the rest of this page to learn about our pPlug : For GPS 45,II,III, etc. (Drawing by: Ivo Steiner 3/01) for a pledge and then click on FIND MY PFRANC .


- Who-da-thunk?
Garmin's connector is molded onto a cable.   A "U-install" connector did not exist until I made a mold in 1996. It was a crazy thing to do because I needed just a few, but now with Pfrancs worldwide to help, you can still get one or two. You are at the right place if you want to build a cable for a Garmin GPS -- read on. If however you want to buy a ready-made cable - see Where-to-buy-cables.   If neither, then go to-another-place.

We'll send you THIS!
Here's my thumbnail photo of our plug (the first P in pPlug is silent like in pFun and Pfranc) which fits the Garmin 12, 12xl, 38, 40, 45, 48, 60C, 60CS, 72, 76, 89, 90, 92, 96, 176, 196, 295, GPS II, II+, III, III+, V and Street Pilots (not the 2610)   With lots of help, I made a mold and ran it here in our small shop next to a river in the woods of Oregon. Then we built a global distribution Pfranc network (pronounced Frank) to get them from our molding machine to you fast and easy.
Not all Pfrancs have PURPLE Pplugs so you may get black, and they won't look like the photo above because after making 35,000 parts the mold wore out, so I spent all the pledge money and them some to hire a world class professional mold maker to make a serious production mold.   We include 4 gold socket pins and the screw.   We ship them to Pfrancs around the world so you can get one or two fast-n-easy.

If you do This:
1) Make a pledge (a promise to send money (or things) if you are happy with our service) and e-mail it to a Pfranc in your state/country.   Click here: find-my-Pfranc.   The pledge amount includes shipping to your door, often in one or two days!
2) After it arrives, decide how satisfied you are with our service, then honor your pledge to your Pfranc.   You can send more if you are more (or less if less) happy than you thought you'd be.   You can honor your pledge with any amount at anytime during your lifetime but don't wait too long because you could forget and someday find yourself feeling bad and not know why. The current record is 3 years to honor a pledge. (Update: 2006; We have a new record: 7 years, a pledge from 1999, how cool is that? Does this mean we should make some new thing for a pledge? --- tell us what would be cool. )
3) Go here to see how to assemble our connector and make a cable.
. . . .   Thanks!

More about all This?
This is the first Purple Open Project (POP), and people tell me, the first ShareHardware project ever!  So how can we make such a big deal over a little plastic part?  Why do people choose a Garmin GPS because of us?  Why do people love what we're doing?  So much so that they send us money and say things like: "You restored my faith ..."?  Wow! This simple idea and little plastic part can do all that?   The answer is: (revised 4/03) Yes! But it's not because or about us, it's because and about you! When you honor a pledge - it happens. All we do is make stuff, learn stuff, and tell people what we learn.

POP #1 Current shipping status, letters from customers, complete project history.     My GPS plug story how/why/when did all this happen?

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