• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Auxiliary Electronics (GPS Etc.) Wiring using existing relays

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ct-sm

Husqvarna
C Class
It's expensive to add a whole aux electronics circuit to your bike. I think at least $50 for the parts, many of which have to be bought in bulk packs. It kind of sucks.

I could do something like this diagram made by another forum member:
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OR a setup like this from eastern beaver (effectively the same thing with a fuse holder rather than a distribution block:
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But my 630 alread has three relays near the battery. Is anyone using the "Horn, turning indicators, stop lights, low and high beam lights relay" described in the service manual to switch on their Auxiliary Electronics (GPS Etc.) power?

Why add a whole separate relay? Too hard to tap into existing ones? No specific fusing to the electronics?

What did you do to power tour GPS and heated grips?
 
I wouldn't want too many things on the same fuse circuit, if you put a big enough fuse for everything together, you could melt your heated grips off the bike and never blow the fuse if they were running alone and something soft-shorted.

There is room in there for a relay and a fuse block behind the factory one, that's where I stuffed my JD tuner. Just be sure to orient them so they won't get wet in a blowing rain through the vents in the side panels.

And good lord, how much electronic stuff can you hang off that thing :eek:

(Also, the frame is grounded, so you could always ground to the coil mount under the front of the tank to save some tight wire routing)
 
I use the headlight low beam to power a relay (wired to battery) for the heated grips. GPS stays on and is fused from the battery. Same goes for a 2 wire SAE plug.
 
johngil said:
I use the headlight low beam to power a relay (wired to battery) for the heated grips. GPS stays on and is fused from the battery. Same goes for a 2 wire SAE plug.
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Do your hands get cold when you're on Hi-beam? :p
 
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