Wiring for a helmet face shield.

[UPsledder]

For those of you who have wired for a helmet face shield, did any of you wire directly to the battery,and if so did you put in an inline fuse? Also what size fuse did you use? I appreciate any information you can give me. Thanks.

 

[hypertxer]

i have mine through the dc outlet

 

[sinjin]

Wired my Attak, Vector, and Phazer right to the battery with no fuse. 6300 miles on the Attak with no problems. HJC specifies in their wiring instructions for hook up to wire right to battery.

 

[MXD]

I wired to the battery and I'm not 100% sure but I think it was a 15

 

[Blue Dave]

You should use a fuse whenever you wire anything directly to the battery. I would think that a 10A fuse should be plenty.

I have a adapter that plugs right into the accessory outlet and it has a short "pigtail" that the electric shield cord RCA jack plugs into. No splicing required, just "plug & play".

I have never blown the accessory fuse except for when I unplugged the connected cord from my face shield and then accidentaly let the center pin of the RCA jack touch metal on the sled with the engine running.

 

[Budweiser]

I wired mine to battery and put a inline fuse in. 5A. The 3A on my Vector never blew so I figure the 5 should be fine.

 

[THKSNOW]

I tapped into the (+) jumper lead with a 5A inline fuse

 

[UPsledder]

Thanks for all the help.

 

[Ported Hornet]

I tapped into the (+) jumper lead with a 5A inline fuse

This is what i did as well

 

[LJ 452]

If you run it to the battery use a fuse, put the fuse in a place that you can acces. Depending on your brand of shield your conector may be one with the male end exposed, My TXi is that way and last year a couple of us were blowing fuses if we left the long lead pluged in and it hit the tunnel. The obvious solution is to not do that, but when you stop and take a break it's easy to forget. Oh yeah, 5 amp fuse should be fine.

 

[Grimm]

If your sled doesn't have the DC outlet installed, it will have the pre-wiring connector under the hood, possibly close to the steering gate (don't know on the Apexes). You can get your power from here by cutting the wires and splicing into it. No running wires to the battery and tywrapping it all around under the hood needed. It's already a fused line with I believe a 3 amp fuse in the fuse box.

It's only powered when the ignition is on, not powered on all the time like if you hooked it directly to the battery, which I think is better.

 

[Blue Dave]

The new Yamaha heated shield has a cord with male RCA plugs at both ends. Therefore if you unplug the cord from the helmet and leave the other end connected it can short out if the center pin touches any metal part on the sled.

If you wire it so that it is only hot with the engine running this will reduce the chance of this happening when you stop for a break. However it still has happened to me when I have left the cord connected while my sled is warming up in the morning and it accidentaly touched metal.

 

[apexgt4life]

better put a fuse, for some protection or you could fry some things, and why not just use the dc outlet, i imagine you could tap of those wires to0 and thats already fused

 

[Blue Dave]

The DC outlet is fused and is only hot with the engine running. It is the best place to connect a heated shield IMO.

 

[UPsledder]

I will be using the DC outlet for my TomTom.