Has anyone ever fitted a Centech near the beak ?

[tonkatoy]

I want to add a few power feeds up near the beak so it seems sensible to me to put a nice fat wire (ignition switched via a relay) from the battery up to a Centech box somewhere up near the instruments / beak. Then I have only relatively short runs of wire each with their own fuse to the various accessories. But I'd prefer the Centech box (well at least the fuses) to be reasonably accessible and, although it may be a bit of a lost cause, out of the worst of the weather.

Has anyone ever done this on a 1200 ? and if yes then where did you mount the Centech ? and any observations, pros and cons.

Thanks in advance

Cheers

Dave

 

[Wapping]

i can't see the great advantage but, you could try the hole reserved for the carbon canister.

Bluesea make a waterproof fuse board, if that is any help.

 

[Andy Davies]

Not near the beak but accessible none the less:

Andy

 

[Shep]

There is plenty of room to run wires down the rh tank side under the panels, so the fuse panel and relay sit under the seat easily.

Up at the beak area i'd worry about unwanted fingers fiddling with the unit. Any where near the back of the instruments would make the already tedious job of bulb changing even harder and IME the bulbs fail far more often than fuses.

Good Luck

Shep

Picture of where mine was fitted

 

[tonkatoy]

i can't see the great advantage but, you could try the hole reserved for the carbon canister.

Bluesea make a waterproof fuse board, if that is any help.

Thanks Wapping

Unfortunately I discovered the Bluesea about 24 hours after my Centech arrived from NN. That would have done nicely.

I'll have a look at the cannister slot. Only issue I can see there is that if I need to take the tank off the Centech would have to be removed first (but not too big a deal I suppose given the no of times I haven't had the tank off).

Thanks for the pics Andy and Shep. Particularly like where you've put yours Shep. That's wasted space on my bike at the moment. Yours looks very neat Andy but unfortunately I've got an intercom and bike to bike radio there.

Any other offers ?

Cheers

Dave

 

[Wapping]

Bluesea are good and very helpful on the phone.

If anyone is following this thread, here is the website: http://bluesea.com/ I first tripped over them thro' a similar thread on Adrider, when looking to do something similar on a Blackbird.

Just another thought. Depending on what flavour of 1200 you have, there is - I think - a useful gap under the tank, where the ABS module would go on non-ABS equipped bikes.

Of course, you do not need to use a Centech at all, any very basic distribution board or strip will do. Just run the individual fuses in line. As fuses do not blow that often (less often than you take the tank off, perhaps) you would probably get the whole lot under the tank cover, quite neatly. When I did the 'Switched power the easy way' sticky I took parts from a great US website www.gunsmoke.com/motorcycling/r1200gs/electrical/ , where a bod had just used the vanilla distribution strips. It works. I did one for someone using them and simply encased them in Araldite. It cost pennies and, as far as I know, is still working fine.

 

[Beemerman59]

If you do put a fusepanel near the beak, ensure the inline fuse is as close to the positive terminal of the battery as it can be. You don't want the cable to fray under the tank with no fuse between a short and the battery.