rocketcarwash
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Thinking of an rt.does any one know how many extra watts are available for power.i use heated gear,with liner and pants 130 watts max total my wife also has a set.any ideas.thanks joe
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Rt exrta watts
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Can not tell a number but can tell you my wife has the Gerbing pants,gloves ,socks ,and jacket liner, I wondered this same thing coming from her 1800 Wing Trike, I immediatley installed a Kuryakin LED voltage meter even in 20deg. weather she has never seen less than 1 green light which is 13volts verified with multimeter , she has 25,000mi. now with no issues,and the Gerbing will get used again in a month we leave Southeast Texas for Alaska, if anyone sees a black RTS and a black Venture pulling a Bunkhouse on the Alcan please stop and say hello.
Can not tell a number but can tell you my wife has the Gerbing pants,gloves ,socks ,and jacket liner, I wondered this same thing coming from her 1800 Wing Trike, I immediatley installed a Kuryakin LED voltage meter even in 20deg. weather she has never seen less than 1 green light which is 13volts verified with multimeter , she has 25,000mi. now with no issues,and the Gerbing will get used again in a month we leave Southeast Texas for Alaska, if anyone sees a black RTS and a black Venture pulling a Bunkhouse on the Alcan please stop and say hello.
Phil
Mod Monster
A little electrical 101....
Roger and Lamonster are correct (duhhhh) from measurments and calcs I've looked at. Available power (we'll say watts) is directly related to the watts currently being drawn. The bike can kick out 650 nominally. You CAN draw above that till you start popping fuses. BTW, at 12volts, 650 watts is about 54 amps and that's a lot of current. IF you do go above 650 and don't blow a fuse, you'll simply draw the battery down since the alternator won't keep up with the draw.
Think of it like this: the battery is a bucket that is full. If we put a valve in the bottom and start draining the water from the bucket, we're fine as long as we have a hose that's refilling the bucket at the rate we're flowing out of the valve at the bottom.
Anyway... if you turn off the fogs and wait until the battery is fully recharged after a start (which DOES get power temporarily allocated to that job), there's a high probability that you're fine.
Roger and Lamonster are correct (duhhhh) from measurments and calcs I've looked at. Available power (we'll say watts) is directly related to the watts currently being drawn. The bike can kick out 650 nominally. You CAN draw above that till you start popping fuses. BTW, at 12volts, 650 watts is about 54 amps and that's a lot of current. IF you do go above 650 and don't blow a fuse, you'll simply draw the battery down since the alternator won't keep up with the draw.
Think of it like this: the battery is a bucket that is full. If we put a valve in the bottom and start draining the water from the bucket, we're fine as long as we have a hose that's refilling the bucket at the rate we're flowing out of the valve at the bottom.
Anyway... if you turn off the fogs and wait until the battery is fully recharged after a start (which DOES get power temporarily allocated to that job), there's a high probability that you're fine.
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
:agree: I also recommend turning off the heated gear and heated grips during extended stop-and-go traffic.
ThreeWheels
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While I generally trust everyone's opinion her, I would still feel more comfortable with hard numbers.
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Lamonster
SpyderLovers Founder
I can tell you that when I watch my volt gauge and I turn on the foglights my volts will drop 1/2 to a full volt while running at rpm. When I turn on the driver grip it may drop .2 volts at first but will come back pretty quick.
When I run the twisties I can really see the draw on the battery from the dps.
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
VSS is the Vehicle Stability System. The VCM is the Vehicle Control Module. The VCM pump provides pressure to the brakes to control the steering line as part of the Vehicle Control System through the VCM valves, which also draw juice on a 25 A fuse. The Transmission Control Module also has solenoid valves, for the SE5.
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
650 is not a lot, but my BMW R1100RTP is only 700, and that has a high output alternator, compared to the street version. The RTP had two batteries, though. The newest RT only has 720 watts and the LT is 840 watts, so the Spyder is not so far behind the rest of the touring machines. The Goldwing may well be overkill. Still, two full sets of heated gear, foglights, plus a DPS and the VCM, makes for a lot of electrical load. A couple hundred more watts would let us worry less.
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
I'm sure you are right. The DPS load is not present on the others.
The VSS pump rarely draws any current because it only runs if you're going into a spin, or if there's an impending wheel lockup when applying the brakes.....much like the ABS and stability systems on todays cars.
The DPS doesn't draw any current either, as long as the handlebars are in the straight ahead position.
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