• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

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I've heard of a few people tieing in behind the headlight. Just make sure that its not a constant power wire you tie into and that it turns off with the key. Let us know how you make out as I have a set here waiting to go on.
 
I would: Mount a relay next to the headlight, trigger it off of the light,
and run a line off of the battery through the relay to the grips.
 
Nesbocaj;16526 said:
I would: Mount a relay next to the headlight, trigger it off of the light,
and run a line off of the battery through the relay to the grips.
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+1. Wire that high of a load directly to the battery.
 
jwfoulk;16520 said:
I've heard of a few people tieing in behind the headlight. Just make sure that its not a constant power wire you tie into and that it turns off with the key. Let us know how you make out as I have a set here waiting to go on.
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For power I tied in to the brown wire off the ignition switch. It powers the taillight and is only on when the bike is running. I grounded them to the ground wire (blue) fron one of the turn signals. I am using the Moose ATV grip heaters at 36watts they are not a very big load. I did put a 5amp ATM fuse in line from the power. If something shorts the grips that fuse will blow and save the brown wire circut.
 
Pretty similar wiring set-up which I did for my KTM.

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