[Rontbeamer]

Posted this on another forum for those that visit both, but I thought I would try here too:

It seems obvious to me that the MotorCo would have an option for having both an accessory switched and not switched accessory power at the same time but as far as I can tell with the Rushmore bikes it is an either or but not both situation. Is there a Y splitter that attaches to the accessory power in the left panel to allow the use of both the 6920722 harness (unswitched accessory power) and 71400105 (accessory switched power)? I do not want or need my heated grips and heated seat switched on and off by the dash accessory switches but I do have a few other accessories I would like to be able to switch on and off via the panel switches. Am I missing something here? Is there a Y splitter available that is not listed in the P&A catalog?

 

[FLTRI]

I can't really answer your question, but I did find something when I did a heated grip instal on my 16 RGU.

When you pull the tach and speedometer nacelle, there are two wire bundles with plugs, attached to each side of the lower housing. They are right under the three blanked off switch areas on each side of the ignition switch. I didn't ohm them out nor put a meter on them to see what was hot, ground or switched. They must terminate somewhere, but I have no idea where. I'll look at a wiring diagram one of these days, and see what accessories they support.

One thing I can tell you is you Do Not want to randomly start taping into wires on a CanBus system. Found that out several years ago on a BMR 1200Rt...

 

[Rontbeamer]

I have the service manual on order so that I can research the wiring. I am not a fan of randomly tapping into the harness. More often than not as the bike ages random taps lead to unexpected problems.

 

[TNCarters]

Been looking at putting some more lighting on my CVO. My understanding of the Aux wiring kit with buttons #71400105 is the circuits from the buttons down to the left side fuse panel are already there and the kit just plugs into the Left side panel plug under the fuse box and diagnostics port. Dont know if the regular Road Glides are any different.

Guess these are all switched power.

 

[Dragonback]

Maybe Im missing something... I have a 2016 RGU
I removed the "Dash: and found the Plug that connect to the area where the switch buttons would be placed.. (both right and left) if I place the buttons I don't see where any connectors will connect to the buttons.. I believe there is another part that is needed (switch pak?)
and just curious.. on HD site, 71400105 and 106 seem to be the same thing Picture and description wise but one is 40.00 more than the other .. what gives..

 

[FLTRI]

Maybe Im missing something... I have a 2016 RGU
I removed the "Dash: and found the Plug that connect to the area where the switch buttons would be placed.. (both right and left) if I place the buttons I don't see where any connectors will connect to the buttons.. I believe there is another part that is needed (switch pak?)
and just curious.. on HD site, 71400105 and 106 seem to be the same thing Picture and description wise but one is 40.00 more than the other .. what gives..

Mine (2016 RGU) had two 5-6 conductor male plugs attached to those blank-off plates in your picture. Kinda made it a pain to remove the housing, one of the release tabs was on the back. Each plug (obviously) had a wire bundle. Like I said, I didn't put a meter on them to see what was hot, ground or switched...

 

[9over]

Ready? Black is ground. Blue is lighting. Blue/w violet tracer is power ( like to your cigarette lighter).
If you MUST mess with the twisted CAM BUS wires make sure they are exactly the same length or nothing will work.
Good luck!!!!

 

[FLTRI]

Ready? Black is ground. Blue is lighting. Blue/w violet tracer is power ( like to your cigarette lighter).
If you MUST mess with the twisted CAM BUS wires make sure they are exactly the same length or nothing will work.
Good luck!!!!

Good stuff.

I'm a pretty good mechanic, but the whole CanBus thing is kind of a mystery to me. the basics you posted, are a good place to start. I know when I had my BMW, one popular accessory was a fuse block wired directly to the battery, with 5-6 taps to run stuff off of. General consensus at that time was don't F... with any of the factory wires, or it jack everything up...

 

[RGS15 Steve]

These run the optional switches you can buy yep buy, then you get a harness that plugs into the left side of th bike under the side cover. it has a canbus connector and wires for other aux systems.

I'm mounting an extra light with mine.

 

[Ohiobellboy]

These run the optional switches you can buy yep buy, then you get a harness that plugs into the left side of th bike under the side cover. it has a canbus connector and wires for other aux systems.

I'm mounting an extra light with mine.

To follow up on Steve's post....


Switches Steve is talking about


Harness He's talking about.



The other end of that white plug that's under the side panel is right where the extra switches go that I installed. At least on a '15 CVO it's there.

Mount the switch panel, plug it into the harness, add the extra harness in the back and you have two leads to wire aux stuff up to switched power.

One of the leads has a relay and the old AUX plug we used to find under the seat. The other lead is just 3 wires. And for the life of me, I can't remember what all 3 of them are for, Hot, Ground and ? .

 

[FLTRI]

Ah, got it. Heated gear, here I come...

 

[Rontbeamer]

Wow this thread of mine has gone every direction but what I was asking. Shrugs shoulders and walks off scratching head...

 

[Ohiobellboy]

Wow this thread of mine has gone every direction but what I was asking. Shrugs shoulders and walks off scratching head...

Ron, The only way I can see having non switched power is to wire straight to the battery. The accy plug behind the panel will need the switch panel like I showed in the pix.

 

[timbo141]

Posted this on another forum for those that visit both, but I thought I would try here too:

It seems obvious to me that the MotorCo would have an option for having both an accessory switched and not switched accessory power at the same time but as far as I can tell with the Rushmore bikes it is an either or but not both situation. Is there a Y splitter that attaches to the accessory power in the left panel to allow the use of both the 6920722 harness (unswitched accessory power) and 71400105 (accessory switched power)? I do not want or need my heated grips and heated seat switched on and off by the dash accessory switches but I do have a few other accessories I would like to be able to switch on and off via the panel switches. Am I missing something here? Is there a Y splitter available that is not listed in the P&A catalog?

Anyone ever find a solution to Ron's issue above?
My issue is the same as Ron's. Need switched and non-switched power.
2015 RGS here
I have my heated seat and power for my Garmin GPS (I use the Garmin on trips and built in boom when not) connected to the 8 prong accessory port under left side cover.
Just installed the HD Cool Flow Fan and that also plugs into the 8 pin accessory plug under left side cover.
I'm not worried about overloading circuit as I will never have heated seat and Cool Flow Fan on at the same time.
The Cool Flow Fan is switched to the switchpack by the Speedo.
I just want to keep it simple so would like to find a 8 pin Y adaptor so I can have switched and non-switched power.

 

[B407driver]

I've used these on other bikes: One wire to the + side of the battery, one wire to the - side, then one wire to a switched source (usually the taillight): https://www.fuzeblocks.com/http://

 

[Ohiobellboy]

I've used these on other bikes: One wire to the + side of the battery, one wire to the - side, then one wire to a switched source (usually the taillight): https://www.fuzeblocks.com/http://

Your link is bad. Too many extra characters after the m in .com

here's a good one.

https://www.fuzeblocks.com/