autocom power

[rodooo]

hi guys thinking of getting a autocom unit as i like the thought of it being bike powered and no charging. i will most likely have the bluetooth unit for it too. the question i have is my garmin is powered off the can bus plug under the dummy tank so its being used. do i just power straight from battery and if i disconnect battery does it muck up my service light etc. THANKS

 

[wheelnut]

Can you take a feed from the aux power socket?

 

[rodooo]

i was wondering about taking a live feed from the socket beside the ignition key. break into the loom in the underside?

 

[Big Bird]

You need to hard wire into the canbus cable so that you can run your nav and autocom, that's how Bahnstormer did mine

 

[rodooo]

cheers thanks for that. ill just break into the loom near the can bus plug on the nav side and solder into the wires? have you the autocom unit mounted below seat big bird?

 

[Big Bird]

It's pushed back in the tail area

 

[Big Bird]

I've got a picture of the set up somewhere, I'll take a look and post it, probably tomorrow now though

 

[Dave Ett]

Whatever you do, make sure you can turn it off - ie disconnect it from the battery.

Despite what Autocom claim, the unit DOES deplete the battery even when a headset isn't plugged in. Has happened to me and a couple of other people I know, and since I fitted a switch to the unit it's never happened again...

 

[StumpyFingers]

I fitted mine to the aux plug. I use a waterproof plug spliced into the sat nav feed. I have my unit in the tank bag.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

 

[rodooo]

cheers guys for the replies. ill splice it into the can bus plug along with the nav lead that way it goes dead after a few minutes of turning off the ignition.

 

[v8legend]

Whatever you do, make sure you can turn it off - ie disconnect it from the battery...

If he takes the power from the aux plug, then this turns off after a few minutes.

 

[Malcolm Leick]

If you also power the sat nav and any other devices such as a phone/mp3 player from the bike, and feed the audio from those devices through the Autocom, you make get some interference / whistling / squealing. It took me a while to work out the problem, but when I re-read the autocom instructions I discovered I needed another small unit to plug the audio devices into, before they joined the Autocom. The sound is completely clean now. There is more info on the Autocom web site. It's about £25 for each channel.

My unit is also in the tail area, underneath the saddle. I have fitted an auxiliary power box under the saddle from which you can take around 6 feeds for different devices. You can choose whether to set these to turn off when the ignition goes off, or stay on. I also have an isolation switch in the system which will turn everything off, even if the ignition is on.

 

[rodooo]

has the can bus plug got enough power/amps to run the nav and autocom out of that one plug......

 

[StumpyFingers]

has the can bus plug got enough power/amps to run the nav and autocom out of that one plug......

The two units combined only need a 5 amp fuse at most, so it is nowhere near to straining the Canbus.