I'd wired my Gen 1 bike with a conglomeration of Radio Shack terminal strips, added as I went, and it worked pretty well--even if it eventually became a birds nest.
With the Gen 3 I have an opportunity to start building an eventual birds nest from scratch as well as do thing differently than I did before. Still aiming for the goal of reduced clutter the cockpit area. There's also just not the same amount of spare room in the nose of the later Gen bikes. So, made the call of going with an FZ-1 Fuzeblock and placing it under the seat.
It get's a 12 gauge wire and 30 amp fuse from the battery and look at this--I have only ONE addition to the battery. I think I counted 5 ring terminals on my old FJR and had to opt for longer fasteners. I'm bound and determined to run all auxilliary items through the Fuzeblock.
Technically, I installed the Erica lights first, but nothing came together until after the Fuzeblock install. 5% and just on the edge of the light beam.
I decided to place the dimmer switch (it goes to whatever level I set on low beam and 100% on high beam) in the glovebox as I'm pretty sure I'll be leaving it on a 5%/100% split.
100% and on the edge of the light beam again. These suckers put out some serious photons.
Here you can see where the additions are in the cockpit area. The left PowerLet is for electric clothing and inflator in case of a flat tire and companion knob on the box on the clutch reservoir is the clothing controller. The switch on the same box is the on/off for the Ericas. The right Powerlet will be for my powered tank bag and double as charging port for the Battery Tender. The loop of wires on the left are to power the GPS and planning to take-off a lead for my Littlight.
Still a fair amount of work to do. I want to encase defacto wiring harness segments into split loom. One piece is done as it transits the engine bay.
And I have a little project when this is done.....I have to drill a hole in a perfectly good fuel tank, install a bulkhead fitting, and piece together a recently converted Gen 1 fuel cell to the new bike.
The gallons that have flowed through that chunk of aluminum.......
I did a quick estimate and think it's been over 2500 of them so far!
With the Gen 3 I have an opportunity to start building an eventual birds nest from scratch as well as do thing differently than I did before. Still aiming for the goal of reduced clutter the cockpit area. There's also just not the same amount of spare room in the nose of the later Gen bikes. So, made the call of going with an FZ-1 Fuzeblock and placing it under the seat.
It get's a 12 gauge wire and 30 amp fuse from the battery and look at this--I have only ONE addition to the battery. I think I counted 5 ring terminals on my old FJR and had to opt for longer fasteners. I'm bound and determined to run all auxilliary items through the Fuzeblock.
Technically, I installed the Erica lights first, but nothing came together until after the Fuzeblock install. 5% and just on the edge of the light beam.
I decided to place the dimmer switch (it goes to whatever level I set on low beam and 100% on high beam) in the glovebox as I'm pretty sure I'll be leaving it on a 5%/100% split.
100% and on the edge of the light beam again. These suckers put out some serious photons.
Here you can see where the additions are in the cockpit area. The left PowerLet is for electric clothing and inflator in case of a flat tire and companion knob on the box on the clutch reservoir is the clothing controller. The switch on the same box is the on/off for the Ericas. The right Powerlet will be for my powered tank bag and double as charging port for the Battery Tender. The loop of wires on the left are to power the GPS and planning to take-off a lead for my Littlight.
Still a fair amount of work to do. I want to encase defacto wiring harness segments into split loom. One piece is done as it transits the engine bay.
And I have a little project when this is done.....I have to drill a hole in a perfectly good fuel tank, install a bulkhead fitting, and piece together a recently converted Gen 1 fuel cell to the new bike.
The gallons that have flowed through that chunk of aluminum.......
I did a quick estimate and think it's been over 2500 of them so far!
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