‘Don’t fry your electrics…’
An easy way to avoid busting your electrical system is by not overloading it in the first place. These days there are all kinds of gadgets and gizmos to attach to your bike, but their current soon adds up. Sure, fitting a handlebar-mounted sat-nav cradle and USB charge port shouldn’t affect things, but if you’re also running a full set of heated kit then you’ll start to draw some serious energy. Keep a check on accessory power consumption by working out the total extra wattage they use. It’s fairly simple to do, just look at your accessories’ spec to see their current drain (amps) then add them all up and multiply by voltage to get Watts. Then take a look at the electrical spec page in your machine’s workshop manual for the output wattage of the stator/alternator and also how much the bike needs in order to run. Subtract the running wattage from the stator output wattage to see how much you have to play with.