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It worked! I bought a paln Tungsten C cable that came with a 5 volt adaptor and a 18 LVC Gps OEM sensor that requires max 5 volts and made a cable that both works for the tungsten for navigation and a Sync cable for the Timy, ( sorry I know most of this is irrelevent so far)
So I power up the gps sensor after configuring it with the garmin software and plug it into the timy. I turn the timy on and Voila the GPS screen. I adjust for the offset from GMT and the little bugger synced up on HH:MM:58. I then unplugged the gps cable and off to the races.
I used a db25 cable direct to the timy. Pin 10, 11, 12(GND), and 2. Pin 2 is channel 0 for the sync signal. Pins 10 and 11 are tx and rx. You also need +5V for the GPS. I don't know if the Timy can support the 65ma current requirement for the GPS so I used a 12 volt cigarette lighter adaptor.
Once I was sure of the tx and rx connections it still required a couple of tries to get the timy to play. BTW do all the sync on batteries as the power supply on the timy can interfere with the recognition of the gps.
Have fun.
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