Hello all,
As winter approaches in the True North Strong and Free, and riding to work at -6 starts to get less enjoyable, I broke out my Gerbings heated vest and plugged everything in, and headed off through the fog and mist.......
Then my Garmin 660 announced that it was ruunning on battery power, not off the cradle which is hard wired into the bikes harness.
next day same thing occurred, and on the third day, the Garmin battery was flat.........
As a test I disconnected my Gerbings and magically the Garmin battery started charging again from the cradle......So I did it again yesterday, same result with both options.
So what gives?
Is the BMW charging system not able to handle the heated vest and the GPS? The battery is one year old and appears to act normally in every other respect. The gps is hard wiried into what I believe is the GPS circuit which was a small two pin plug up behind the steering head. I used (shame) waterproof Japanese connectors....
Comments, opinion, advice please.....
Al in partially frozen Edmonton
As winter approaches in the True North Strong and Free, and riding to work at -6 starts to get less enjoyable, I broke out my Gerbings heated vest and plugged everything in, and headed off through the fog and mist.......
Then my Garmin 660 announced that it was ruunning on battery power, not off the cradle which is hard wired into the bikes harness.
next day same thing occurred, and on the third day, the Garmin battery was flat.........
As a test I disconnected my Gerbings and magically the Garmin battery started charging again from the cradle......So I did it again yesterday, same result with both options.
So what gives?
Is the BMW charging system not able to handle the heated vest and the GPS? The battery is one year old and appears to act normally in every other respect. The gps is hard wiried into what I believe is the GPS circuit which was a small two pin plug up behind the steering head. I used (shame) waterproof Japanese connectors....
Comments, opinion, advice please.....
Al in partially frozen Edmonton