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Growl
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 11:51 am: |
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What with folks adding auxiliary lights I wonder how much electric load can the Uly handle without shortening the life of the alternator components and regulator? Anyone have much experience running loads similar to: low beam & high beam both on, 100 watts auxiliary lights plus two 40 watt electric vests? Too much? |
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Froggy
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 12:20 pm: |
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On my uly I had a pair of PIAA 510 lights, Buell Quest GPS, electric cooler, buell heated grips, harley heated jacket, and it handled all of it fine. You will notice the fan gets a little quieter as the bike won't be able to handle it all at idle as good, but I've never had an issue running all the above at the same time. |
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Adrian_8
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 12:47 pm: |
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I run the Gerbing electric jacket and G3 gloves which pull 99 amps....when I get home from a ride I can tell it takes longer to bring the battery all the way back up...but everything works fine... |
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Rwven
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 01:17 pm: |
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The alternator has a 405 watt rating. You add all the wattages up and hopefully you come in under 405 watts. If you figure about 200 watts (which is probably a little high?) for the stock lighting, ignition, and fan that gives you about another 200 watts to play with. |
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Treadmarks
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 02:05 pm: |
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I run the Gerbing electric jacket and G3 gloves which pull 99 amps 99 AMPS! Holy smokin vest, batman. I have had welders that used less power than that.![](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/bugout.gif) |
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Rubberdown
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 02:40 pm: |
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I don't think my house pulls 99 amps. WOW! |
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Jmhinkle
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 03:02 pm: |
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99 AMPS!!! Keeps you warm and keeps up your year round tan! Did you upgrade your Flux capacitor to handle that load?? Best laugh I've had all week. Thanks guys. |
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Ft_bstrd
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 04:08 pm: |
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99 Amps. Did you buy your Gerbing gear from this guy?
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Adrian_8
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 05:32 pm: |
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Could I have meant watts????? The jacket pulls 77 watts and the gloves pull 27 watts.... Seniorslipitis.... (Message edited by Adrian_8 on October 18, 2007) |
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Florida_lime
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 05:44 pm: |
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The jacket pulls 77 watts and the gloves pull 27 watts.... Seniorslipitis.... 77 + 27 = 104 ! Man, that seniorslipitis is some bad stuff. ![](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/biggrin.gif) |
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Tm74
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 06:01 pm: |
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Can you repeat that sonny? |
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Growl
| Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 10:22 pm: |
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Thanks for the feedback! |
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Paochow
| Posted on Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 06:00 pm: |
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Older Ulys (pre 08) had a ~493 watt alternator so you could probably run a bit more electric goodies. |
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Rwven
| Posted on Monday, October 22, 2007 - 07:16 am: |
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"Older Ulys (pre 08) had a ~493 watt alternator so you could probably run a bit more electric goodies." Was the change made on '08 due to reliability issues with the 3-phase 493W 38A units? (The '08s are single-phase 405W 30A) |
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Jmhinkle
| Posted on Monday, October 22, 2007 - 07:39 am: |
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No, it was due to the switch to the XBRR style engine. Bottom end is quite a bit different in design. |