Ah, you don’t escape that easily.
Don’t worry (though I’m sure you are not) about SAE. Good joke by the way. It is just the name of a very simple plug and socket, that looks like this:
It really is the child’s Lego building brick of plugs and sockets.
I have just bought another C type and conventional USB converter thing.
As you can see, the converter ends in an SAE connection, which will very simply plug into the SAE connector at one end of the bundled up wire. Assuming you can join one Lego brick to another, Bingo! Job done, one end - the power coming out end - is complete. Now all we need to do is think about the power coming in end.
The red and black cable is colour coded. Red is live and black is neutral. Easy.
Now the next easy bit. The other end has to connect to power. The easiest power is the battery. You should never connect something directly to a battery in a vehicle without the lead having a fuse. The lead I bought isn’t fitted with one but I don’t care just yet.
Let’s make it easy for you.
To the bike’s battery, connect a short fused SAE lead, just like this. Red to the red + terminal of the battery, black to the - negative terminal.
Into SAE socket, plug the other end of the lead you started with at the top of this post.
Bingo! You now have power going from the battery, along the cable to the USB converter.
No need to tidy anything yet.
Now the really exciting bit…..
Plug the charging lead of your phone into the USB converter. Then plug the charging lead into your phone…..
Bingo! A ‘ping’ or whatever your phone does, to tell you it’s charging.
That’s it. Just do that much and stand back, basking in your un-chimp like glory. Now unplug the phone…. We can deal with the next stage when you have got this far. It won’t be much harder, I promise.
