Plugs

   I installed two USB units, one in each fairing pocket and there is controller for the heated grips. The fairings will have to come off again in the future. So I thought worthwhile in investing time to fit electrical connector plugs to make that job easier and it would look smart. The plugs would lead back to a fused distribution board. The fused board would take a feed directly from the battery and let me add more equipment in the future without overloading the factory fit electrical system.

 
I got a box up of 2,4 & 6 way plugs. I had not used these wire connectors before. However I did know that of you push the brass connectors into the plastic housing they are designed to lock in place. It took about twenty minutes of investigation to work out how everything went together. I got the soldering iron ready along with the wire crimps. Crimping the brass connector to the wire should be a sufficiently secure join. I decide a dot of solder would be properly secure the connection. I also had a quantity of heat shrink tubing.

 I decided to tackle the complicated connection first. First up the heated
grips controller. To make this a trial I could not find a wiring diagram for the grip and switch. The grips have three settings. off, warm and hot. I had the presence of mind to take a photo of the original connectors for reference. The live feed had been bodged of  the switched wiring loom. I was able to cut the wire back, removing the bodgery. I slipped the heat shrink sleeve over the wire. I stripped back the old wire and the end of the new wire. They were twisted together and soldered. When cool the heat shrink was put in place and heated with hot air. The join is properly secure and weatherproof.






   The earth wire was quite short. I remove the ring connector bolted through to a fairing bracket. I got a new ring connector a crimped, soldered and heat sleeved to the new length of wire. I went very steadily whilst I worked out now the make the connections into the plug blocks. The first block I tackled, for the heated grips, needed jumpers as well. After a false start the grip heated on demand. I used a little building mastic to weatherproof the back of the blocks.






 Once I had tackled the heated grips x6 plug it was a much more straight forward affair to organise x2 plugs for the two USBs. The extra work that took time was routing the power cable from the tail unit to the USBs in each fairing pockets. I used plenty of heat shrink and mastic. The back of the USBs are in a vunerable place inside the fairing.

See blog the about the accessory power panel click HERE

See blog the about the fitting the USB units click HERE