My dad recently picked up Gerbings Heated liner and gloves w/dual controller of course. And his mechanic (that would be me) has a question about where to wire it in.
I could run it direct to the battery but it would seem better to have it switched. Is there some easy way of doing this? I know you could find a powered lead and run a relay but what lead and or does Suzuki think enough to give you something like that? I have heard there are heated grip leads. Are these big enough to run the current?
Power the relay with a brown or orange/green wire for a trigger wire. The tail connector, heated grip connector or rear brake light connector contains those wires. Power the controllers using the relay with power off the battery terminals or a fuse block. Use stock bike wires only for turning the relay on with the ignition, not for powering heated gear. VStrom is a good place for everything you need.
I also go directly to the battery. The only potential difficulty happens when you have multiple add-ons to the battery posts. In that case, you have to make sure you reconnect everything should you take the wires off for any reason.
Adding more than two ring connectors to battery posts will also necessitate using longer screws in the battery terminals. This is usually the first change I make on a bike.
Well, I have heated grips and gloves on one controller. The gloves may be disconnected but the grips are always there. Also, the flashing lights may attract fireflies.
straight to the battery - make sure there's an inline fuse. Also, a great tip I got on here is to flip the headlight plug upside down to cut one off on low beam but have both lit on high beam.
I need the juice, else my voltage drops with the jacket and gloves running.
What jacket and gloves do you have that draws that much power?
Is it a 90w jacket liner?
Do you run full power all the time or do you have a controller?
Do you use the heated grips at the same time? or does it draw too much with just the jacket liner and gloves?
I only have Gerbing T5 gloves and heated grips at the moment, but looking at a jacket liner now. I have a single flush mount plug, and a single controller mounted on the left side of my bike. I will be replacing this with a dual controller, and adding a second flush mount port to my bike. I have a fuse block under the seat that has the relay wired to my tail light wire for switched power. Makes adding electric stuff a 2 minute job. I will be wiring my dual controller into that.
I also ordered a $3 (with free international shipping) Waterproof 30v digital meter off ebay the other day. Then I can keep an eye on my voltage as I adjust the heat on the controller. I won't be disabling any of my headlights, that is too much of a safety risk IMO.
Hopefully all of this will not exceed my power. it shouldn't.
If its just the liner and gloves I'd prefer to go direct to the battery. I can't think of any reason to have a switched circuit for this. It also lets you plug a battery tender into it.
Exactly what I would have posted and that is what I did. (I also do have the Eastern Beaver switch to turn off one headlight while using my heated gear)
I run an eastern beaver fuse block with both switched and unswitched (always hot) circuits. Have the heated gear plug, battery tender, iPhone charger, fog lights, GPS, 12v meter, and 12v dash socket wired through it. If done right, it keeps all the wiring tidy and very sanitary. All my wires are ran through plastic looms and all connections are soldiered. Zero problems.......
Thanks guys. After reading all this it seems I might be over thinking this. I'm running the 12v plug for his charger for his phone up to the dash with an inline fuse. So since he has to unplug anyway it won't be an issue.
I had thought about the EB stuff but every time I go to that store I get more and more confused on what I need and don't. We aren't adding anything else that I know of though so this should work ok. Hi was thinking about a GPS but for now would probably just power using the same outlet as his phone charger.
He's riding to Alaska so the only time the GPS is needed is around cities. We've ridden it twice and he's driven it a bunch so the GPS is just a bonus.
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