A real good friend recently bought a 2016 Road Glide Ultra. It didn't come with an owners manual and I couldn't find one online to download. You had to have the VIN. I can get that if necessary. Anyway, he has heated gear and plugs it into the cigarette lighter. He wants to make sure the fuse is sufficient to carry the current but can't find the location of the fuse. Can someone steer me in the right direction? I connect mine to the battery tender lead and have an extra connector but his bike doesn't have a tender lead. I thought that was kind of weird too. Thanks for your time
John
It's a 20amp P&A fuse
Thanks, a little more googling and I was able to download the owners manual. It showed where the tender cable is. I recommended to him to run it off the tender cable and change that fuse vice using the P&A fuse.
John
I run my gear off of my tender plug as well using an adaptor, switched the fuse to 20amp.
Quote from: thirdjld on January 02, 2022, 07:23:50 AMA real good friend recently bought a 2016 Road Glide Ultra. It didn't come with an owners manual and I couldn't find one online to download. You had to have the VIN. I can get that if necessary. Anyway, he has heated gear and plugs it into the cigarette lighter. He wants to make sure the fuse is sufficient to carry the current but can't find the location of the fuse. Can someone steer me in the right direction? I connect mine to the battery tender lead and have an extra connector but his bike doesn't have a tender lead. I thought that was kind of weird too. Thanks for your time
John
I suggest getting a Battery Tender Plug and hook it to the Battery and replace his Cigarette Plug on the Gear and use that connected directly to the Battery. I've replaced a lot of Stators because of this.
:agree: That's the way to go. The lead will exit under the seat by the rear crash guard on either side you choose and tuck away nicely when not in use. Just remember you are plugged in before you dismount because the cord is not in view.
The stator is not going to know the difference where you hook the heated gear load (current draw is current draw). Only thing using the P&A circuit will do is put a heavier load through the P&A relay which might shorten its life.
Having said that, I always hook them to the battery. If you need to have the power turn off when you shut down the bike, I use a 30amp solid state relay (controlled by the accy power). You will want to do this if you use a built in heat controller.
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