Fitting heated grips

[Cambo]

About to fit some accessories using bigpies wonderful aux fuse box...reading enclosed instructions for Oxford heated grips they say you can connect straight to the battery as they will switch off automatically when the bike is switched off...something to do with detecting movement and vibration...so my question is should I wire straight to the battery or through the aux fuse box...any views or opinions gratefully received

[Fat Rat]

If you have the aux supply wired in then I would use that. There is always the risk that if the grips are connected to the battery and they develop a fault that you could end up with a flat battery.

[mrp192]

My Oxford Premium grips are wired into one of BigPie's aux fuseboxes and work fine.

[boomer]

Hi, I have my Oxford grips wired direct to the battery, also works fine.  I think it's a matter of personal preference, and how many spare ways you have on the relay.
Boomer

[UK_Vstrom650]

The first bike I had heated grips on had them wired directly to the battery. All was OK until some bugger turned them on when it was parked up at work... will always recommend wiring them via a switched power source.

[boomer]

The latest Oxford grips look for noise in the charging system, if none is present ( engine not running ) then they cut the power to the heaters.
Boomer

[Cambo]

Thanks for the advice blokes.....

[Cambo]

Autocorrect....I typed blokes and it changed it to blokes 

[Cambo]

Give up...doesn't like the word I'm trying to write

[greywolf]

Not autocorrect but the Americanism filter.

[In me shed]

My last one was wired off the battery until it went faulty and I ended up getting a jump start. My new one should be on a relay if the dealer fitted it properly.

[superteso]

and connect them to the appropriate socket where you can also link the original?