question about DC adapter

EricV

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Welcome to the forum. Please take a minute to add your location to your profile. It gives context to your posts and allows others to give you better answers. Bikes are different in the US than in the EU and Canada in some cases.

That item description says "Total 60W QC3.0 5A" That's a rating of 60 watts and 5 amps draw. The factory power port is only rated for 3 amps. You may have blown the fuse, (or it may have already been blown). It should have worked fine as long as the draw didn't exceed 3 amps. It's pretty common for people to plug in an air pump and blow the fuse.

It's important that you understand that the power port is not a DC adapter, per se. The entire bike is 12V DC power in terms of function. You are adapting from 12V to ~5V with the item you purchased to charge your phone.

Check for power at the power port on the bike with some other low draw 12V item if you have one. Otherwise check/replace the 3amp fuse and your adapter should work. Just remember the 3 amp rating for that circuit. The wiring is very small gauge and you shouldn't install a higher rated fuse, (some people do), as it can eventually melt the wiring with too high a draw.

If you don't have the owner's manual, here is a link to one you can download for free - LINK Page 6-28 shows the fuse box under cowling A, which is the right side lower cowling with the four quick release fasteners requiring a 4mm allen wrench. There should be an allen wrench clipped to the bottom of the rider seat on the bike as well.

Hope that helps.
 

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The adapter is rated to handle a 5 amp load without the internal fuse blowing, much the same way that the 12 volt outlet on your bike is rated to handle a 3 amp load. The actual question here is what load are the devices you plug in actually placing on the circuit. The 5 volt USB adapter does draw some current when it's plugged into the 12 volt outlet, but it's actually in the milliamp range. In and of itself it's not creating a 5 amp load in the circuit; that amp rating is the load that the adapter is capable of handling before its own fuse would blow. A cell phone when it's charging pulls about 1 to 2 amps. The fuse in the 12 volt outlet circuit on the bike will blow if you exceed 3 amps, regardless of the amp rating on the USB adapter. As long as the load on the circuit itself doesn't exceed what the circuit is rated for, you're fine. If you stuck that adapter into a 12 volt circuit that was designed to handle 15 amps, and you plugged something that drew 6 amps into that USB adapter, then the adapter's fuse would blow long before the fuse in the 12 volt, 15 amp circuit.
 

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as RCinNC says, you shouldn't have a problem with “that” charger and the motorcycle's fuse. Perhaps, the 5 amps are in the two outputs used simultaneously (2.5 + 2.5) or (3 + 2). Remember that not all cell phone batteries support a fast charge. It is common to see inflated batteries, due to incorrect 12v chargers
In the pic....3 amp for android, 2.5 for iphone
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