Suzuki C50 cigarette lighter outlet

This is how I fitted a cigarette lighter outlet to my Suzuki Boulevard C50 Motorcycle.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Suzuki
• C50
• Motorcycle
• cigarette
• lighter
• outlet
• bikerbits

[r3trosp3ctiv3]

Being that its hooked straight to the battery its always on, will that cause the battery to die if nothings plugged in?

[bendigowebcentral]

Hi r3trosp3ctiv3, No it does not drain or damage the battery. I have had the setup for over a year now and have never had any battery problems.

[markennvibryan]

so all that you need to do is atatch it to the battery ? it wont blow a fuse or anything ?

thanks mark

[bendigowebcentral]

Hi markennvibryan, Yes that is all you need to do. When ever messing around with electrical stuff, make sure the ignition key is in the off postion. When taking off the battery leads, take the black (negative) one off first. Then take off the red (positive) one last. When putting them back on, the red (positive) one goes on first and then the black (negative) one last. That's all you need to worry about.

[bendigowebcentral]

Hi gregoriussss, It's just a 3 amp fuse. Just completed a trip across and back along the Nullarbor 5300kms, the Tom Tom and cigarette lighter setup worked like a dream. No problems what so ever. Happy riding, Mark

[robguitar983]

nice work... where did you put that on the bike?

[bendigowebcentral]

Hi robguitar983, I have not fixed it to the bike. The 1 metre cord runs under the passenger seat, out the back and then just sits in the right-hand saddle bag. I have done it this way to give myself flexability with it. I also means that it is totaly hidden, oh except for when I don't have the saddle bags on, but that's not very often.

[SwishaHouse7777]

best way is to put in a dc relay and connect the relay to a wire thats hot only when the bike is on so that the relay will only feed the charger when it gets a "green light" or just ad a toggle switch to manually let the power through, no matter how the bike gets used everyday or every month its still going to drain the battery if not regulated but still the more often driven it won't matter if the bike has either cause it will charge it back up but thats still bad for the battery

[itscloudyagain]

this is awesome i love your accent and you have a awesome phone <3

[r3trosp3ctiv3]

@bendigowebcentral well its all hooked up on mine too so far so good... waiting for a phone mount that imma customize to mount on the handlebars.

[markennvibryan]

@bendigowebcentral thanks for the reply ordered a waterproof 12v socket just waiting for it to arrive will let you no how it goes . ive been told to add an extra fuse but fuzes are cheap so ill just take some spares along with me :)

[gregoriussss]

hi...what fuse did You use?

cheers,Greg