milleplod
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'06 1200RT. Why are the aux sockets, and the gps plug at the headstock, permanently live?
I bought a ready-made accessory plug for my Garmin on here, just been in the garage trying it out - once connected, as soon as I mount the unit in the cradle, it powers on....that's without turning the ignition on. Hmmmm....so, I take the unit off the mount and switch it off. Ignition on, put Garmin in mount, it powers up. Leave it a few mins, turn ignition off....Garmin is still powered up half an hour later....take it off the cradle and get the 'do you want to switch to battery' message, as expected.
So, the mount isn't switching off at all, and neither is the rear aux socket - front one is disconnected at the moment.
I've checked...and checked...there's nothing that I can see that's making the bike think that it needs to keep things 'on'. Any ideas what I might be missing? I've tried various combinations of plugging something into the rear aux, ignition on, ignition off, in the hope that the system might power off, but it's obviously not worked!
Pete
'06 1200RT. Why are the aux sockets, and the gps plug at the headstock, permanently live?
I bought a ready-made accessory plug for my Garmin on here, just been in the garage trying it out - once connected, as soon as I mount the unit in the cradle, it powers on....that's without turning the ignition on. Hmmmm....so, I take the unit off the mount and switch it off. Ignition on, put Garmin in mount, it powers up. Leave it a few mins, turn ignition off....Garmin is still powered up half an hour later....take it off the cradle and get the 'do you want to switch to battery' message, as expected.
So, the mount isn't switching off at all, and neither is the rear aux socket - front one is disconnected at the moment.
I've checked...and checked...there's nothing that I can see that's making the bike think that it needs to keep things 'on'. Any ideas what I might be missing? I've tried various combinations of plugging something into the rear aux, ignition on, ignition off, in the hope that the system might power off, but it's obviously not worked!
Pete