Tank Bag - Bags Connection City
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ST2013 said:
I have the SW-Motech/Bags Connection electrified-tank ring and "City" tank bag, and I simply ran the cable down in the front of the tank and then over to all the electrical gear under the right side panel, and then looped the excess cable around until I had the end length I wanted. Then I simply cable-tied the looped section down behind some other cabling. It was a easy.
Dallara
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Hungry Tiger
2012 Blue S10
If I were to hook the tank ring up to unswitched power, are there exposed contacts to worry about like when keys are flopping around like during fueling?
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I have mine hooked up through a switched source BUT, that is only a system of redundancy for me. The ring is relay controlled through the harness. When the bag is attached there is a magnet within the tank side of the ring that "engages" and allows the connection to be made and, in turn, energizes the ring. There will be no issue with the bag removed, as a result, as the ring will be de-energized in this setting.Hungry Tiger said:
I did pretty much what Dallara did and ran the cable along the front left of the tank and then down and around the steering head and over to the right side where the relay was mounted, excess cabling was looped, and the connection was made. Easy peasey.
Pull up my profile and topics section. I detail my install of the bag, fuse block, heated gear, GPS, intercom, and routing of wires, etc. along with all my other farkles in my threads.
The bag will not sustain a piece of heated gear. Just doesn't have the amperage capability on that wiring circuit and through the connection spades on the ring.
I'll be happy to help any way I can as many others will. No need to reinvent the wheel.
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The bag will not sustain a piece of heated gear. Just doesn't have the amperage capability on that wiring circuit and through the connection spades on the ring.
I'll be happy to help any way I can as many others will. No need to reinvent the wheel.
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Hungry Tiger
2012 Blue S10
FF911: If it was diesel in our tanks I'd let it go with the magnetic safety interlock. With gasoline, I'm using redundant remote switch. Thank you.
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I'm in agreement with what the others have said, but you also need to be aware that the tankbag ring will draw power, even with the bike off and run down the battery if you connect it as the instructions indicate, directly to the battery. You have to remove the tank bag to break the circuit. Even if your GPS is off, or completely unplugged from the tank bag power, just the bag on the ring will run the battery flat in a couple of days if it's sitting.
I killed a battery due to this. After that, I wired it to a switched power source via a PC-8 Aux fuse block.
When routing your cable, secure it in such a manner that you still have enough slack to raise the tank fully.
FYI - Many of these seem to get flaky over time and power becomes intermittent while riding. I found this very annoying with the GPS cutting out and having to re-start. Some dielectric grease helped at first, and ensuring that the magnetic plunger was correctly adjusted in as far as possible, but it just got looser over time. Twisted Throttle was outstanding and replaced my upper ring due to a broken pin, but the second one eventually did the same thing, but no broken pin. In the end I ran a dedicated power connection to the GPS and use an SAE plug to remove the bag when I need to. Still enough slack to take it off and place it on the bars for fueling though.
My last conversation with Twisted Throttle discussed the problem and they told me they were waiting to import the new style powered tank bag rings until they saw that they were performing better. Mine was the old style.
For heated gear, use the provided pigtail strait to the battery or to an Aux. fuse block.
I killed a battery due to this. After that, I wired it to a switched power source via a PC-8 Aux fuse block.
When routing your cable, secure it in such a manner that you still have enough slack to raise the tank fully.
FYI - Many of these seem to get flaky over time and power becomes intermittent while riding. I found this very annoying with the GPS cutting out and having to re-start. Some dielectric grease helped at first, and ensuring that the magnetic plunger was correctly adjusted in as far as possible, but it just got looser over time. Twisted Throttle was outstanding and replaced my upper ring due to a broken pin, but the second one eventually did the same thing, but no broken pin. In the end I ran a dedicated power connection to the GPS and use an SAE plug to remove the bag when I need to. Still enough slack to take it off and place it on the bars for fueling though.
My last conversation with Twisted Throttle discussed the problem and they told me they were waiting to import the new style powered tank bag rings until they saw that they were performing better. Mine was the old style.
For heated gear, use the provided pigtail strait to the battery or to an Aux. fuse block.