SUCCESS
!! The BOOM! Audio Stage II is correctly installed in my 2015 FLTRUSE and appears to be functioning as advertised. While I haven't experienced it at high speeds yet (still too cold) ........the system sounds wonderfully powerful around town. I completed the installation (in my heated garage
) then brought the bike to Grand Junction H-D to have the radio flashed along with having my 15k service done. As a precaution, I even removed the radio fuse to avoid blown speakers .......HAHAHAHA
. Stood there aghast watching the tech connect his Digital Technician laptop,
turn the radio on and promptly blow one of the Tourpak speakers !!! Actually we didn't discover the blown speaker until days later because the Digital Technician software wasn't seeing the system correctly and it just wouldn't function.
The next day their Lead Tech came in off vacation and through trial and error discovered
I had missed a connection. Per the sometimes vague MOCO instructions, I'd left the 4 pin
socket of the Speaker Interconnect Harness (69200714) unconnected.
Turns out this 4 pin socket (female) needs to connect to (male) connector #10 [297A] of the Tourpak Amplifier Harness (see photo). In at least one of the MOCO instruction documents this 4 pin socket was referred to as "unused" .......and another document instructs the installer to "cap off this unused 4 pin connector"
! In attempting to find out what was wrong, the tech took everything apart and checked every connection ....fortunately I'd installed everything else correctly. When they reassembled everything they even installed the Rear Speaker Jumper Harness (69200489) neatly
inside the wire trough under the gas tank
(I'd zip-tied the harness to the outside where it might have gotten pinched by the gas tank)!
So even though they spent over two days on this ......I was pleased to pay for only 1.5 hours of work ($130) and even though I'd purchased the Stage II equipment elsewhere, they replaced the blown Tourpak speaker under warranty (good thing I'd watched the tech start the radio prior to flashing). Things I've learned:
- NEVER ALLOW THE RADIO TO BE TURNED ON WITH SPEAKERS CONNECTED PRIOR TO FLASHING.
- LOT'S OF MISINFORMATION: I'd heard on a forum that a dealer wouldn't flash with disconnected speakers .......my dealer says it doesn't matter
- RESEARCH EVERYTHING .....DON'T ASSUME. These forums are a mostly wonderful source of information
Hope this information is helpful. C'mon "riding weather"!!!!!!!!!