piercjs
Registered user
Hi,
I've an R1150GS with a good (ish) battery.
When not in use, she's connected to a trickle charger.
At home she always starts quickly but, if i'm away overnight, she's not so quick to start first thing in the morning.
I think the issue is
With the bike off, power is still supplied to these. Connecting my phone to the AUX USB Socket starts the phone charging. Connecting the GPS, starts the GPS Charging.
so it looks like both sockets may be slowly draining the battery.
I've seen posts about the PDM60 and it looks like a great piece of kit. Right now though, I've other items to spend cash on so am looking for a quick/dirty solution.
I was thinking of connecting a 12v relay between the battery and the 2 devices.
Ideally, the Relay should only draw power if the rear brake light is on (for example) or, I could wire the relay to the on/off switch for the spots so that it only worked if the spots were switched on ?
That's about as far as my technical ability goes, I've no idea how to actually do this.
Do I need a 4-pin relay or a 5-pin relay
How do I wire it ?
As I said, the PDM60 looks like it would do all this for me but, I'm not sure I've actually traced the true issue so want to eliminate these first.
The Battery is a little over 1 year old so I don't want to go replacing that either, especially if I don't fix this issue so that the next battery eventually does the same thing.
Thanks
I've an R1150GS with a good (ish) battery.
When not in use, she's connected to a trickle charger.
At home she always starts quickly but, if i'm away overnight, she's not so quick to start first thing in the morning.
I think the issue is
- The AUX USB socket is wired direct to the battery
- the GPS is wired direct to the battery
With the bike off, power is still supplied to these. Connecting my phone to the AUX USB Socket starts the phone charging. Connecting the GPS, starts the GPS Charging.
so it looks like both sockets may be slowly draining the battery.
I've seen posts about the PDM60 and it looks like a great piece of kit. Right now though, I've other items to spend cash on so am looking for a quick/dirty solution.
I was thinking of connecting a 12v relay between the battery and the 2 devices.
Ideally, the Relay should only draw power if the rear brake light is on (for example) or, I could wire the relay to the on/off switch for the spots so that it only worked if the spots were switched on ?
That's about as far as my technical ability goes, I've no idea how to actually do this.
Do I need a 4-pin relay or a 5-pin relay
How do I wire it ?
As I said, the PDM60 looks like it would do all this for me but, I'm not sure I've actually traced the true issue so want to eliminate these first.
The Battery is a little over 1 year old so I don't want to go replacing that either, especially if I don't fix this issue so that the next battery eventually does the same thing.
Thanks