Battery tender harness and fuse location?
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Battery tender harness and fuse location?
I got an adapter harness for my heated gloves that allows me to power them using the battery tender plug on the bike. My understanding is that the battery tender harness has a 5A fuse, and the harnesses for heated gear generally run a 10A fuse. Does anyone know where the fuse for the battery tender harness is? Normally it's an inline fuse when you install one yourself. But the bikes come with the tender harnesses installed from the factory. Is the fuse still inline or is it in the fuse panel? If it's in the panel, which one is it? The only thing I could find in the fuse diagram is "battery" which is a 5A.
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I believe the 5A is correct because it says when using a battery tender it needs to be 5 Amps or less. I don't believe the battery tender harness is intended to use for heated gear. I never used heated gear but had some friends that have and blew fuses, and were told not to increase the fuses to avoid that from recurring and could cause a fire. Under the impression that heated gear comes with instructions and optional battery connection hardware, harnesses with inline fuses, etc. Best bet obviously is to discuss this with the service experts at a dealership, or if your gloves aren't HD brand go talk to the folks in Motorclothes department and ask to look at the instructions for a pair of HD gloves. Bet that would tell you what you need.
don't see the instructions on their site but they sure provide a lot of 'stuff' to connect them with
http://www.harley-davidson.com/store...-in-12v-gloves
don't see the instructions on their site but they sure provide a lot of 'stuff' to connect them with
http://www.harley-davidson.com/store...-in-12v-gloves
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My Gebring heated gloves have their own in line fuse & connectors that go straight to the battery terminals. Also I use an optimate charger & always connect the supplied in line fuse connector directly to the battery, so the factory fitted connector is always redundant.
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Thanks for the info fellas. I have a set of HD gloves that I use but I left the harness for them on the old scoot when I sold it. So I was just trying to see if I could use what was already on the bike (battery tender) without having to add more wires to the battery. But I'll just go the safe route and order a new heated gear harness.
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IIRC on the 2014-2016 touring bikes, the factory battery tender is powered thru the P&A fuse which is a 20 Amp fuse. I can't say for sure that this is the case for the 2017 models. As for the gloves, many draw 2.2 amps so a 5 amp fuse should work fine. I use a pair of heated gloves & a jacket liner with a 10 amp fuse in a separate lead direct to the battery.
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IIRC on the 2014-2016 touring bikes, the factory battery tender is powered thru the P&A fuse which is a 20 Amp fuse. I can't say for sure that this is the case for the 2017 models. As for the gloves, many draw 2.2 amps so a 5 amp fuse should work fine. I use a pair of heated gloves & a jacket liner with a 10 amp fuse in a separate lead direct to the battery.
"When using the factory installed battery tender connector, the main fuse and P&A fuse (20 Amp) must both be installed."
then I saw this:
"An automatic, constant monitoring battery charger/tender with a charging rate of 5 amps or less at less than 14.6 volts is recommended."
I'm too stupid with electronics to piece it together enough to be hooking stuff up to it
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RevZilla has a video that explains about a separate lead direct to the battery and what size fuse to use depending on what gear you're running.
http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/g...attery-harness
http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/g...attery-harness
