Hi, I’ve got a 2013 RRC and am installing a sat nav and heated grip supply. Anyone know if there are any unused connectors suitable for the purpose? I like to use an ignition switched supply for obvious reasons. Cheers
For my sat nav I've piggybacked off an ign feed on the diag plug. Heated grips mine go straight to the battery. Oxford have a battery monitoring system in them.
Saw a vid about this the other day, quite an interesting solution similar to Oxford's heated grips. https://www.healtech-electronics.com/products/tb/ Personally I have always tended to wire in a relay and switch it with the number plate light feed.
I've previously run a relay off the number-plate light, cheap and easy though the thunder box look much tidier
On 2013 there should be a plug with a cover on it under the seat near to the fuse box. It has five wires in it which are left and right indicators, a switched live, a permanant live and an earth. It is meant for an alarm to plug in. You could use that.
Many thanks Stuart, I’m just waiting for my Chinese ebay steering stem sat nav mounting ball to arrive. I can’t believe the price RAM charge for a rubber coated steel ball.
I wired my heated grips straight to my battery. Most now have sensor that detects when engine switched off and stops the current. I wired my sat nav straight to the battery also on the basis that it would be very foolish to leave it on an unattended bike. Fitted the grips and the sat nav over 5 years ago and no battery problems as a result.
That looks to be a handy unit. Not a fan of those types of connectors though, prefer anything i install on my bikes to be more looking as if they were there from the factory not messy wires laying all over the place. Please do not do away with the individual fuses that come with accessory cabling as these are rated to protect the accessory. If he was to get rid of the fuse on his heated grips as he said he could do he is effectively fusing them at 16amps which is what the thunder box is rated at. If anything was to go wrong with the grips 16 amps is a lot of current and could easily result in melted cables or even catching fire before the thunderbox fuse blew. Please please keep the fuse for your accessory wiring. It is there for a reason! The thuderbox fuse is there to protect itself from delivering more than 16 amps not to protect your accessory!
Good point about retaining the fuses, known in the electricity industry as grading. The fuse gets progressively smaller as you get nearer the load.
This is from the Healtech factory -------------- When selecting the terminal blocks, the top priorities were reliability, compatibility with the most common wire sizes and simple, tool-less usage. While it's not commonly used on motorcycles, it works perfectly. Yes, it's a good idea to connect an accessory to the TB's output terminal with the fuse it comes with, do not cut that off. A typical heated grips come with a 5A fuse. The TB has no relays and no fuses, it's a solid state device with electronic over current and short circuit protection. This protects the module itself, the battery and the bike's electrical system. In the worst case, when an accessory is connected without its fuse and it gets shorted, the TB will switch the output off before the wire could get hot. That's because bike accessories have thicker wires which do not melt when loaded with 16A for no more than 200ms. But again, do not cut the fuse off from the accessory when you connect it.
I suppose, being solid state, that you can’t have your battery charger connection to one of the ThunderBox output connections?
