Need wiring advice
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Road Captain
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From: Kansas City, MO via Millington, MI
Need wiring advice
I searched and could not find what I was looking for. Hopefully one of you can help.
I've got an '09 Street Glide.....and over time, I've added so many accessories that it's a mess in the battery tray.
I've got two amps, battery tender pigtail, heated gear pigtail, tour pak power outlet, trailer wiring harness.....that's what I can think of right now....might be more.
So has anyone done any nice clean install of a terminal block or something that will keep me from needing to have anything other than the battery leads and tender pigtail screwed to the battery posts? Maybe wiring directly to spare fuses in the fuse block?
I'd love to hear about what you've done, and see pics of your install.
Thanks in advance.
I've got an '09 Street Glide.....and over time, I've added so many accessories that it's a mess in the battery tray.
I've got two amps, battery tender pigtail, heated gear pigtail, tour pak power outlet, trailer wiring harness.....that's what I can think of right now....might be more.
So has anyone done any nice clean install of a terminal block or something that will keep me from needing to have anything other than the battery leads and tender pigtail screwed to the battery posts? Maybe wiring directly to spare fuses in the fuse block?
I'd love to hear about what you've done, and see pics of your install.
Thanks in advance.
Road Warrior
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I have a 02 Ultra with 3 things hooked up straight to the battery light in tour pack, charging port in tour pack and a lead for a battery tender that I do not use it for that it is for my little air compressor I keep behind the seat in the sidecar. All have inline fuses. My accessory power is for my air seat controlled by the factory switch on the fairing. Other then more terminals on my battery wiring is very neat.
I have a question for you if you have your trailer hooked into the battery how do you turn every thing on the trailer off when you are not running and how do you get the brake lights to work?
I am all so interested to see what others have done.
I have a question for you if you have your trailer hooked into the battery how do you turn every thing on the trailer off when you are not running and how do you get the brake lights to work?
I am all so interested to see what others have done.
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Road Captain
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It's the relay harness for the trailer wiring. My trailer lights are controlled by the same circuit as my tail lamps, but the power is supplied directly from the battery. This keeps me from overloading the tail lamp circuit....last thing you want to do is burn out your tail lamp fuse and not realize it.
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You could use the B+ connector instead, its a single wire positive connector, just like hooking direct to the battery, then ground to a chassis stud. HD sells 2 and 3 way splitters for the connnector, its like a 14ga wire direct to battery so it will take a lot. you can also buy the connectors from Mouser.com and make up your own splitter.
Road Warrior
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From: Macon, GA USA
It's the relay harness for the trailer wiring. My trailer lights are controlled by the same circuit as my tail lamps, but the power is supplied directly from the battery. This keeps me from overloading the tail lamp circuit....last thing you want to do is burn out your tail lamp fuse and not realize it.
OK thanks for the lesson. Never had a trailer but do have a HD sidecar and it plugs right into the stock harness.
Thanks
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I have wired in a 30 amp circuit breaker from the battery and mounted it just under the ECM area. So now the only 2 items on the battery are J&M amp and battery tender pig tail everything else is on the circuit breaker heated suit, horn relay and something else can't remember but thats what I did.
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You could use the B+ connector instead, its a single wire positive connector, just like hooking direct to the battery, then ground to a chassis stud. HD sells 2 and 3 way splitters for the connnector, its like a 14ga wire direct to battery so it will take a lot. you can also buy the connectors from Mouser.com and make up your own splitter.
I have wired in a 30 amp circuit breaker from the battery and mounted it just under the ECM area. So now the only 2 items on the battery are J&M amp and battery tender pig tail everything else is on the circuit breaker heated suit, horn relay and something else can't remember but thats what I did.
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You could bundle all your "Hots" together and just use one plug. Originally you said you wanted to get all that stuff off the battery terminals. If you really want to "clean" everything up, run some dedicated wires from the unused positions on the OEM fuse block.
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