Making up extra harnesses for your battery maintainer?
That's one project - had a little drama a few days back, I came home very tired on the GSA and threw it on the stand, whipped the key out and went upstairs fr a nice hot bath and a sleep. Pity I'd managed to put the switch in "park" and over the next several hours the battery was a flat as a tack.
I briefly scoped getting the tank off and that looked like two much hard work. I just received a new Hella socket that came prewired with a fused SAE connector and decided to use that to charge the battery (thereby avoiding having to remove the tank).
After I blew two fuses the penny dropped on my fatigued brain that I had to reverse the wiring on the connector hooked up to the battery charger and after that all was well.
At which point I decided:-
All our bikes are getting a battery tender connector.
I am building a solar powered battery tender for the (bloody hell where did they all come from)6 running motorcycles and two infrequently used cars. I already have 2, 100w panels for this, they will be easily dismountable so they can go 4WD camping with us on occasion.
All our bikes are getting USB outlets and the larger bikes are also getting Hella power outlets.
I've been meaning to do this for some time and actually have a fair bit of the hardware, but the mistake with the GSA tipped the scale. plus its former owner is less lazy than I am and it has three Hella sockets (two switched and one un-switched) and a total of 6 USB ports in various locations, only the two near the bars for things like GPS and intercom are switched.
I was taken aback to see that the GSA battery is actually smaller in both size and capacity than the ones in the R65s, at least BMW fitted a gel-cell at the factory.
