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CVO Technical => Riding Gear => Topic started by: aclass on March 14, 2010, 03:36:10 PM

Title: Will the Gerbings connector take the heat?
Post by: aclass on March 14, 2010, 03:36:10 PM

Will this thing be okay here?
Anyone had any trouble with heat or any other issues having it located here?

Title: Re: Will the Gerbings connector take the heat?
Post by: Twolanerider on March 14, 2010, 05:35:11 PM

That's not an uncommon location. Should hold ok so long as it's secured such that it can't hang down too much.

Title: Re: Will the Gerbings connector take the heat?
Post by: ultrafxr on March 15, 2010, 10:51:56 AM

Originally put mine there but when I plugged in to it it came in contact with the cylinder fins and oh well you know what happend then.  Hard to get that melted chit off the fins.

Title: Re: Will the Gerbings connector take the heat?
Post by: Twolanerider on March 15, 2010, 11:26:09 AM

A better option is not messing the loose dangling pigtails at all.  Go to Powerlet and get a hard mounted bracket for a power plug.

Title: Re: Will the Gerbings connector take the heat?
Post by: aclass on March 15, 2010, 06:12:26 PM

Which one do you have there Twolane??

Title: Re: Will the Gerbings connector take the heat?
Post by: Twolanerider on March 15, 2010, 10:16:00 PM

Quote from: aclass on March 15, 2010, 06:12:26 PM

Which one do you have there Twolane??

That's their part number PKT-034.  The little pigtail that comes with it reaches the battery fine when mounted in that location.

These use the nearly ubiquitous BMW type power socket.  Powerlet had adapting cable to go from the BMW socket to SAE or Coax plugs for heated clothing or battery tenders and just about everything else (mine with in iPhone connector arrived today).