I just recently moved from Iowa to Alabama and I am looking to purchase a motorcycle GPS so I can navigate my way around our new town. It was recommended I get a powerlet port to charge the GPS. Does anyone have one they have installed and can provide feedback. I own a 16 Daytona 675R. The bike is my daily driver as well.
I wired mine directly into the (switched) live on the horn using the cables that came with my TomTom. Would have gone for a neater solution using the sidelight but the cables in the headlight bezel looked well jammed in.
If you are using a soldering iron, use shrink down tubing! The heat from the iron will shrink it nicely! Looks better than tape, easy to cut off too.... if need be!
Doh!.... did'nt read that bit. Cut into anything electrical me. Pitfalls of a career in Telco/Datacomms
You can get piggy back connectors which means no splicing or soldering! Then you connect to your horn. I put a post on here somewhere when I did it, plus someone else posted a link to another forum explaining it but I can’t find them. This is the connector Attach your satnav live to that connect it to your horn then connect the horn live to it. Get a ring connector and connect your earth wire to it and find a decent place to earth it, not the horn earth though!
On most modern vehicles (bikes and cars) there are switched and permanent circuits. The switched ones only provide power when the ignition is switched on, resulting in a better supply with less risk of running down the bike's battery. The permanent circuits are always 'on' - so if you connect anything additional to them and forget to turn it off, you risk depleting the battery.
The pic isn't actual size DD! They are small enough , I don't notice mine as it is hidden by a load of motorbike and admittedly not as neat as a solder, it isn't that large, there are different sizes and the one to use is fairly small and has the convenience of not being permanent so can be swapped between bikes.
This is exactly what I did. Piggyback spade crimped to one wire and a ring connector to the other for the earth. Route the cables alongside the existing loom so it looks neat and Robert is your father's brother (Bob's your uncle). The bike is tucked away under a cover in the garage for winter and it's cold outside so no piccies I'm afrid.
Dealers tend to use "scotchlock" splices or equivalent http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/50x-Blue-...470522&hash=item3a70e264ef:g:jLAAAOSwEH9ZaIkU. Neat enough when covered with black tape. Good current capability and easily removable.
Used these years ago on many additional wiring jobs on old cars i once owned. Not that reliable though.
