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I spent some quality garage time today installing two panel mount jacks. They are below the body panel when it's on. Installed in a part of the under seat storage tray.
One is an SAE that runs a fused, un-switched line to the battery. I use this for maintenance charging and power for a tire inflator. It can also be used as back up power connection for other items like heated gear. It's a little cleaner than just hanging a SAE plug off the side, which was how it was when I bought the bike from the PO.
The second panel mount is a Co-Ax plug for heated gear. I'm also installing a mounted Heat-Troller unit, which I will cover in another post. That will plug in under the seat so that I can just plug the Gerbings heated jacket liner direct into the panel mount jack. The Heat-Troller control knob will probably end up in the left switch housing.
I also ran power from the battery to under the seat, with an inline fuse, to provide power to a Bosch 30 amp relay. This is a double 87 terminal relay that will provide switched power to three items: Heat-Troller, GPS and a dual USP charging port/Volt meter that will be mounted on the bars. Because the GPS and USB/Volt meter are both low draw, I just wired them to the same 87 terminal on the relay. The H-T is higher draw, so on it's own 87 terminal. All of this together will be no where near 30 amps and each individual 12V+ wire has it's own fuse, so I can protect the low draw items and high draw item appropriately.
Pics of the panel mount jacks.
Pics of the relay and some of the wiring in progress.
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I spent some quality garage time today installing two panel mount jacks. They are below the body panel when it's on. Installed in a part of the under seat storage tray.
One is an SAE that runs a fused, un-switched line to the battery. I use this for maintenance charging and power for a tire inflator. It can also be used as back up power connection for other items like heated gear. It's a little cleaner than just hanging a SAE plug off the side, which was how it was when I bought the bike from the PO.
The second panel mount is a Co-Ax plug for heated gear. I'm also installing a mounted Heat-Troller unit, which I will cover in another post. That will plug in under the seat so that I can just plug the Gerbings heated jacket liner direct into the panel mount jack. The Heat-Troller control knob will probably end up in the left switch housing.
I also ran power from the battery to under the seat, with an inline fuse, to provide power to a Bosch 30 amp relay. This is a double 87 terminal relay that will provide switched power to three items: Heat-Troller, GPS and a dual USP charging port/Volt meter that will be mounted on the bars. Because the GPS and USB/Volt meter are both low draw, I just wired them to the same 87 terminal on the relay. The H-T is higher draw, so on it's own 87 terminal. All of this together will be no where near 30 amps and each individual 12V+ wire has it's own fuse, so I can protect the low draw items and high draw item appropriately.
Pics of the panel mount jacks.
Pics of the relay and some of the wiring in progress.