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To power all of the various farkles I installed a 12 pole Blues Seas PDB in the tail section. To be honest if I had to do it again I would likely do it differently, but if you are the sort that likes to take things apart you can appreciate that I had fun doing it! The first part was to prepare the tail section for the Blue Seas. There are two humps there that serve no purpose, so those got cut off with a dremel with some resulting holes: Use some of the plastic you cut off, and the JB Weld, to put a patch over the hole  It doesn't really matter, because it will be covered by the PDB, but I couldn't stand the way the patches looked, so I glued on a plastic plate With some velcro, the Blue Seas sits nicely on its new perch This is where things get silly. The blue seas needs power, directly from the battery is best. First a relay is installed, I put mine in the front near the battery. The relay is powered by the wiring for the stock horns, which is a switched power source. My relay ended up in the left hand side of this pic: You may notice at this point I have the front cowling off, it gets worse! The battery is in the front, as are several of the farkles that will be wired to the PDB. The PDB is in the back, that means a lot of wires running from front to back, and vice versa. A better plan would be to a separate PDB up front, the trick there is finding room for it. Anyways, how to get all the wiring through the bike without creating a mess in the engine compartment? Well if you are a little bit stupid, incredibly patient, and have a long winter of no riding, you run them through the frame. The wires enter the frame under the gas tank That will get covered with heat shielding from Summit Racing and then that will be covered with the factory shielding. You cannot touch the factory shielding without tearing it, hence the Summit stuff. The wires come out of the frame behind the engine all the wires above will be shrink wrapped. The exit hole is used to reach the cam adjuster which can be seen in the last picture, make sure you can still get to it. You may have noticed that this requires removal of some parts, in particular the tank, the airbox, and the tool tray. You haven't seen anything yet, wait until you see the cruise control install. So how do you get the wires from the front hole to the back hole? There is a lot of  twisty frame in the way! There is a convenient intermediate hole One wire is run from the top, the other from the back, and they meet up here. The wire from the back gets started in the cam chain adjuster hole on the outside of the frame. When they both come out of the hole in the pic, tape them together and away you go. Now you use this wire to fish through the wire loom and the wire bundle. This also takes some pre-planning, because you are going to need to know how many wires you need! Well it was a pain in the posterior, but the finished product looks good! I wish I had larger pictures, but I am not taking it apart again to get them :) here you can see the wire loom running alonside the frame where it connects up to the PDB in the back. In the end I had to shrink wrap the wires from tranny back, there wasn't enough room for the asphalt loom. And here is the Blue Seas all wired up (before I had to remove the asphalt loom, arghhhh). All of the ends are soldered and shrink wrapped. If you look closely you will see a small black wire running above the asphalt loom towards the front of the pic, that is the wire for the Powerlet on the passenger rearset.

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