1200 GS Optimate Question

[Bendy toy]

Sure, if you want to fit your two pound extras to your 12 grand bike.

Really? That's a daft thing to say. What about the £2 parts BMW fit as standard?

The Optimate charger is industry standard and the original float charge and battery recovery device. The correct tool for the job IS the Optimate. But its your money.

 

[Jon P]

What can go wrong connecting the existing optimate up to the battery with a £5 lead??

Possibly lots of things.......

 

[Jon P]

For the life of me I can't see why you would blow £80 (to add more Canbus complexity to a very simple task).

Because it's the correct part. Do you use army surplus bags as panniers?

 

[Jon P]

The Optimate charger is industry standard and the original float charge and battery recovery device. The correct tool for the job IS the Optimate. But its your money.

Industry standard you say...? Are you sure? Says who.....lots of people?

 

[seadog]

Possibly lots of things.......

Like what?,

 

[Norfolk Tiger]

A hard wired socket direct to the battery will also allow you to use things that draw more than the 5 amp limit of the canbus controlled socket ie tyre pump etc.

 

[GerJ]

A hard wired socket direct to the battery will also allow you to use things that draw more than the 5 amp limit of the canbus controlled socket ie tyre pump etc.

With a fuse in the + lead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Delboy777]

Because it's the correct part. Do you use army surplus bags as panniers?

Yup, then you can say, look at my £80 part it cost 40 times more than yours so must be better.................pfftttt. Feckin bling more like. But hey ho it aint my dosh lol.
PS.......i need my dosh for better bits of bling

 

[Beemerman59]

IMO the BMW charger is unnecessarily complicated (and therefore expensive) simply because of the complexity of it having to operate in a canbus environment. The solution of connecting a charger, or indeed any other accessories directly to the battery (and there are a number of ways in which that can be done), removes that inherent complexity. It therefore becomes a simpler solution - one that also permits other accessories to be connected, again, in isolation to the canbus system. I have this opinion based on my own experience of circumnavigating around canbus complexities with regards to fitting other electrical items to my canbus bike. So, in my opinion, the £5 lead for an Optimate is a far better solution that buying the BMW charger for £80 even forgetting the price differential.

 

[HPNer]

My BMW charger was pants. It packed up after about three years use. The little electrical leads coming out of the back of the grey box split and proved a pain to fix. Now use the old Optimate I used on my lads racing kart years ago.