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Title: What are these wires for?
Post by: TreyRiser on November 18, 2009, 09:05:35 AM
I was removing the crank case breather  and noticed these wires running from my battery's + and - to nowhere...does anybody know what they were suppose to go to... i looked for a connection but found nothing...can i remove them? There is a 15v fuse on them too if that helps..
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/37405663@N04/4114878105/)
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: cduarte on November 18, 2009, 09:06:24 AM
sounds like it's for a battery tender... can't see your pic btw.
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: TreyRiser on November 18, 2009, 09:07:41 AM
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/4114878105_9fef01a150.jpg)

fixed it for you...

with flicker you have to go one level deeper to hot link it.
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: TreyRiser on November 18, 2009, 09:08:39 AM
pics not working... i put (http://then%20url%20then) right?
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: cduarte on November 18, 2009, 09:08:55 AM
still can't see your pic on the forum, pasted the link into a browser, it's definitely for a battery tender.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/4114878105_9fef01a150.jpg)
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: TreyRiser on November 18, 2009, 09:09:39 AM
[ i m g ] then url  [ / i m g ] right?
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: cduarte on November 18, 2009, 09:11:00 AM
Quote from: TreyRiser on November 18, 2009, 09:09:39 AM
[ i m g ] then url  [ / i m g ] right?

yes, but you can't use the url from your hosting site. What I did was right clicked on the pic from your link and got the direct link to the picture which is http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/4114878105_9fef01a150.jpg (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/4114878105_9fef01a150.jpg)

that will work with the [ img ] [ /img ] html
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: erkishhorde on November 18, 2009, 01:48:54 PM
That doesn't look as clean as the battery tender cable. I'm thinking home-made heated vest power cable? Looks like it's seen a short once too.
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: DuciD03 on November 18, 2009, 07:17:12 PM
... battery tender cable ... heated vest cable ... melting could be from resting on a hot engine part ... 15A fuse is a largish fuse for a bike ... auxillary some thing or another ... humph ... intresting, cant say for sure but my guess is it doesnt need to be plugged into anything on the bike.  Ha;- so - not helpful ... [cheeky]
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: erkishhorde on November 19, 2009, 03:03:36 PM
Oh yeah, the underlying question was whether or not it's necessary.

No, it isn't.
Title: Re: What are these wires for?
Post by: junior varsity on November 19, 2009, 04:15:09 PM
not necessary.

melted from being on something hot at plug.