Power socket cutting off electrical accessory!

[bmwbikeruk]

Hi folks!

I have 2 power sockets on my R1200GSA, one at front by screen and the other under seat. Both connected to the bike's main electrical system as fitted by BMW.

I have several electrical accessories to be powered such as mobile charger, portable hand held lamp (5w bulb - handy for inside tent!), etc. With my bike's engine off, I switched on the charger but it shut down after a min or two. Again, it happened with my 5w lamp. Both have never occured with my old R1150GSA. I had to switch ignition off then on but it keeps shutting down after 1 or 2 mins. How can I get around this problem? Wire directly to battery terminals?

It may not happen with the engine running if the voltage stays above 12v????

Has anybody experienced a similar problem?

Mike

 

[TheWarlock]

This is simply the CanBus design. It automatically shuts down the accessory sockets after a set period of time.

I think the comment goes something like "They all do that Sir".

You could connect one of the sockets directly to the battery and bypass the CanBus I suppose but there is the risk of running down your battery. From reading other threads on this site, the batteries don't appear to have a huge reserve over that required. Up to yourself I suppose.

 

[John Armstrong]

Has anybody experienced a similar problem?

No.

The underseat socket stays live to accept a charger all the time on my bike

Sounds like you need to connect a centech, or TT equivalent, and power your bits and pieces off them. Or even cheaper, get one of the NN sockets that connects across the battery.

 

[terayon]

Ok, first the canbus socket is designed to stay live if something is drawing the power from it or adding power(battery charger).

But if you have something other than a bmw product wired into the back of the socket, say an autocom hardwired in. This plays havok with the canbus signal and shuts it down as intended after 1-2 mins

So do you have anything hardwired into the sockets?

 

[ExpatinIstanbul]

For my tyre inflator I bought one of these:

http://www.nippynormans.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BAS-ZA01&variation=&aitem=10&mitem=11

Which comes with everything you need. It connects directly to the battery, so avoids the CanBus.

Be careful not to drain the battery though.