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     Bttrthnwrk |
I got in my FuzeBlock today. I ran the cable from the battery to the front cowling. So now I can run up to 6 accessories off of the FuzeBlock. They can be either on all the time or only on when the bike is on, selectable at install time by deciding which 2 of the 3 sockets the fuse goes in. Ground termination problems are non-existent, too, since the neg. cable just goes right back to the battery. I ran 2 - 12 ga. wires inside corrugated conduit up alongside the main wiring harness inside the frame, under and outside the cable router on the steering head, and into the front cowling. Sounds simple, doesn't it? Man! There's pretty much no extra room for 2 12 ga. wires inside corrugated slip-on conduit right there by the fan. That was the longest, hardest, most skinned-knucklest part of the whole installation. Frustratingest, too. I finally had to wrap the entire length of the wires (where they poked out of the conduit at the front end) and the entire length of the corrugated conduit itself with electrical tape to ease it on through that tiny opening. No way was I going to just let the wires slide through there without some kind of protection. I figured a tight space and sharp corners was just asking for trouble, probably on the side of the road in the rain, with a pack of killer coyotes on the loose. After wrapping the conduit in tape, it more-or-less slid right through. Phew! Anyway, I got the FuzeBlock because I just bought my first official farkle - a Cheapo-Deluxe Battery Monitor. Green LED for okay, Red LED for not okay. Hooked it up to the FuzeBlock in moments, and it works fine. Actually, it works too fine. Darn LEDs are WAY too bright. So bright, they even made my headlights seem dimmer, and made it hard to see at night. Maybe I'll explore some kind of coating for the LEDs to try to dim them down some. Nail polish, or paint, or something. If I can get them to upload, here's a couple of pix of with and without the LEDs blinding light.   | ||
| Ronmold |
We need to quit wasting time running ground wires back to the battery, there's enough wires under the seat already. The flyscreen area has no lack of ground, just a lack of flexible wire, which you have either way. You just need a super-flex wire to the steering head grounding bolt to replace the factory wires that will break sooner or later. |
