Battery Tender Time

[JCWeatherman]

Once again, I want to thank everyone for their replies and thoughts. I was really fishing for a few good ideas, and you came through for me. My STL is now safely tucked away for the winter (although I did ride to church on Christmas eve, rode on Christmas day, and was out again on January 10 ). I installed some kit-supplied quick connectors for a battery tender. All is good!

 

[loisk]

Another idea

We hooked the heated vest cables to the terminals near the trunk lid, fed it through to the top centre part near the brake and other switches, put a weatherproof 12v plug (fit nicely between the switches in the centre), then put a matching 12v thing on the connector for the tender. I love it , use it all day for the vest and when I am home can see at a glance whether the tender is connected and hook it up without unlocking anything! Simples..

 

[Deanna777]

This is how installed mine. The pigtail came with the battery tender. Not in the trunk. That just adds another step to removing the trunk when needed and another hole for water to get in. This is my prefered spot see pic. Always easy to get to, no matter how full the trunk is.

Installed an overhead cord reel in my garage. No cords on the floor to trip over.

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Before I picked my 2014 RTS-SE6 @ the dealership I had the pig tail installed, so I could have my battery tender put on when it was time to have my spyder put in to hibernation. Deanna

 

[Bob Denman]

I just unhooked mine from it's Tender... (The lawn tractor deserves a bit of electrical love too! )
It was "On the juice" for almost a Month. I'll let the tractor take a turn through most of February, and then switch back over for a quick refreshing of the battery just before the start of the Season. :thumbup:
(Too cheap, and not enough outlets, for multiple tenders...)

 

[oldguyinTX]

Does your 2013 STL have a 12V outlet in your frunk? That's where I plug mine into on my 2014 STL.

:agree: This is the easiest way to do it. You do have to buy the 12 v adapter for the battery tender, and you have to switch a fuse in the RIGHT fuse box. The fuse boxes are labeled in the as frunk Left & Right. Move the fuse in position 6 to position 7. This will make the 12 V outlet in the rear cargo always hot. In other words, the key does not have to be on for it to be hot. Using this method, it sends the battery tender current straight to the battery as long as it is plugged in. Hope this helps, & good luck.

 

[Motogordo]

I have a 2013 STL that I purchased used last summer. Now that winter is approaching, I want to hook up a battery tender, but I need some good advice. I see that there are battery terminals inside the frunk, under a removable panel on the left (driver's) side. The positive (red) terminal has a slide-off plastic cap, and the negative (black) terminal is exposed. It looks like both of these terminals have interior threads, but I haven't checked the size.

I want to use a tender, but I don't like using the typical clips that come with chargers and tenders. Has anybody rigged up an adapter cable that "permanently" connects to the Sypder terminals? It wouldn't be too much trouble to change the tender clips to some type of quick connector so the tender can be easily connected and disconnected.

If anyone has done something like this, I would appreciate some advice and pictures.

I just purchased the battery tender junior from Harley Davidson for $39.95. It comes with the battery clips and the ring terminal clips. They both have the plug in connector to connect direct to the batter in the Frunk.