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How do you connect yer grips?
Direct to the battery
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PostPosted: 22:14 - 17 Oct 2017    Post subject: Inspired by the heated grips thread..... Reply with quote

Seen a few vids on youtube and many people fit grips direct to the battery.....

Personally I wire them to the ignition.......
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PostPosted: 22:29 - 17 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm going to say the ignition, just to make sure the grips are off while you're not on the bike. It'd be real stupid to forget to turn the heating off and leave the bike to find it couple of hours later with drained battery. Well that, given you don't leave the keys in the ignition when you get off the bike.
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PostPosted: 22:37 - 17 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Voltage sensing technology in mine that switch themseves off if battery level drops. Wired direct to battery.
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PostPosted: 22:45 - 17 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

To the battery via a relay controlled from a switched live.
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PostPosted: 23:18 - 17 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Via PDM60 ...
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PostPosted: 23:53 - 17 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

However Triumph wired them I haven't bothered looking but they turn off with the ignition.
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PostPosted: 00:18 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Via the ignition - whilst they turn themselves off if the voltage drops (when the engine isn't running) I don't particularly trust it, and don't like the idea that someone could fiddle with it and repeatedly turn it on.

I actually run via an ignition switched relay that feeds a fuse box that powers all my auxiliary stuff (phone charger, heated grips & seat, lighting, radio gear etc.). That also has a rather nifty function I hacked together that gives me a hold-up switch on the handlebars. The auxiliary power works as you'd expect (on and off with the ignition) unless you switch the hold-up on.

If I switch that on whilst the ignition is on, then my auxiliary relay remains powered even if the ignition is subsequently turned off and the key removed, so I can choose to do things like have my bike-mounted radio remain connected via bike-powered bluetooth to my helmet whilst I'm fuelling up (so using the ignition key in the filler cap) or leave the radio and auxiliary lighting running if I'm a short distance from the bike without needing to leave my keys in it. Once I switch the hold-up off, it won't switch back on until the ignition is turned on again - so it can't be enabled by someone and drain my battery whilst I'm not there.

On the other bike, which has fewer electronic bits, I still wired in a relay to the ignition for grips that should turn themselves off.
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PostPosted: 07:38 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lazy, incompetent, or not giving a shite are the only reasons to connect directly to the battery.

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PostPosted: 08:01 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why bother, for the sake of 1 or 2 weeks a year? I rarely even put the thermal lining back in the jacket ..
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PostPosted: 08:35 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:
Lazy, incompetent, or not giving a shite are the only reasons to connect directly to the battery.

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Or having grips that switch off automatically with their built in tech. I have (inadvertently) tested this feature btw.
Yamaha say to connect direct to battery in their own instructions.
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PostPosted: 08:40 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Islander wrote:
To the battery via a relay controlled from a switched live.


That's how I did mine. So the answer to the poll is "both".
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PostPosted: 09:21 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Relay controlled auxillary circuit here.

Last chance to see Howto guide to fitting a relay before the photobucket of fail breaks it.
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PostPosted: 09:28 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

I leave my bar muffs switched on throughout the winter. Never had a battery problem Cool
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PostPosted: 10:07 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

depends which heated grips.

The more recent Oxford grips turn themselves off after a while. Not entirely sure how that works but it did work on my bike.. For ease sake, i fit them direct to the battery
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PostPosted: 11:08 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ignition on one bike.
Straight to battery on another as they turn themselves off apparently.
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PostPosted: 13:25 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

pompousporcupine wrote:
depends which heated grips.

The more recent Oxford grips turn themselves off after a while. Not entirely sure how that works
Apparently they sense electrical noise in the wiring generated by the ignition doing it's thing when the engines running, no noise means the engine's off, so the grips switch off.
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PostPosted: 13:38 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Islander wrote:
To the battery via a relay controlled from a switched live.


Same.
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PostPosted: 13:40 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Noise sensing is unlikely. It's far easier just to measure its voltage. Greater than say 13v means the engine is running, less than that means it is stopped. I'd be extremely surprised if anything else is done.
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PostPosted: 14:00 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

fatjames wrote:
I leave my bar muffs switched on throughout the winter. Never had a battery problem Cool


I've had problems turning muffs on recently.
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PostPosted: 14:29 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy_Pagin wrote:
pompousporcupine wrote:
depends which heated grips.

The more recent Oxford grips turn themselves off after a while. Not entirely sure how that works
Apparently they sense electrical noise in the wiring generated by the ignition doing it's thing when the engines running, no noise means the engine's off, so the grips switch off.


Thumbs Up sounds about feasible. They don't go off instantly but maybe after 3 or 4 minutes the light starts flashing and then they go dead
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PostPosted: 14:48 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

arry wrote:

I've had problems turning muffs on recently.


You obviously aren't inserting your fingers correctly. Start with them pointed and keep your thumb tucked in until you have your whole hand inside.
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PostPosted: 14:54 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

grr666 wrote:
MCN wrote:
Lazy, incompetent, or not giving a shite are the only reasons to connect directly to the battery.
Or having grips that switch off automatically with their built in tech. I have (inadvertently) tested this feature btw.
Yamaha say to connect direct to battery in their own instructions.

As do Oxford.
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Noise sensing is unlikely. It's far easier just to measure its voltage. Greater than say 13v means the engine is running, less than that means it is stopped. I'd be extremely surprised if anything else is done.

Well, surprised you may be, but that's exactly what the instruction manual says. Could be a lie of course, but there doesn't seem to be much gain for Oxford in doing that.
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PostPosted: 17:55 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having checked, the manual says it does both Smile
And yes, I am surprised.
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PostPosted: 18:06 - 18 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

stinkwheel wrote:


You obviously aren't inserting your fingers correctly. Start with them pointed and keep your thumb tucked in until you have your whole hand inside.


Do i go wrist deep or elbow deep?
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PostPosted: 11:34 - 19 Oct 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fisty wrote:

Do i go wrist deep or elbow deep?


You should be able to lose your watch... not your belt.
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