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Replacement battery terminal (+) rubber cap/cover - aftermarket option?

8.6K views 25 replies 9 participants last post by  DesertBike  
You didn't ask my opinion, but hey, it's free! Just wanted to mention, in case you didn't already know, that the Eastern Beaver PC8 solves nearly all these problems for me:

--SAE pigtail for battery tender or running a tire pump.

--Eastern Beaver headlight relay harness.

--Dashcam power supply. It's "Smart" and doesn't turn on unless the bike is running, using a separate 12V sense wire, and needs to have power while it does a soft shutdown, thus needs a direct battery hookup.

--And of course, one of the leads for the relay that powers the new fuse panel, as well as the ground wire coming back from the (-) bus of said fuse panel.
The PC8 has 2 unswitched terminals, which I use for the battery tender (and could use for a tire pump). Headlight relay harness goes on the PC8 with everything else (it'd be easy to bypass in the unlikely event of some failure affecting the PC8 that I can't fix quickly). Dashcam: a good one, like the Thinkware, has a small amount of stored energy (either a small battery or a capacitor of some sort) which provides a few seconds for writes after the power is cut, for exactly this reason. YMMV there, but worst case, you could use one of the unswitched terminals on the PC8.