What ever happened to a decent pair of winter gloves

Unfortunately not.

You need to splice into an orange and white wire. This is part of the lighting loom (I think) but is only on when the ignition is switched on.

I ran a couple of wires from the battery all the way to the relay at front of the bike - just follow the loom and cable tie it to them. You may need to remove the headlights to get the wires through. I mounted the relay behind the flyscreen.

I didn't wire the grips directly to the relay but bought the housing and pins (from dealer) and wired in an accessory socket like the 08> bikes have. A little more work but easier to disconnect grips if something goes wrong...

So, in the absence of another female power connector (to the left in your photo) my method is to trace this back as far as possible into the heated grip loom, whilst unwrapping the loom tape) and cut it off (with lots of wire to the connector). Cut the wires at different points so you can wrap them back up with the loom tape. You could always cover the ends with heatshrink too.

Then, with this connector and wire, put some spade terminals on and connect it up to the relay in the diagram.

Alternatively you can look for another connector, so as you don't need to modify your loom, but saying that, what else would you want to connect? The connector is a Sumitomo 2 pin, Buell part numbers Y0226.1AK (housing) Y0228.1AK (terminal)

Should you wish to connect something else into the loom, the male is Y0170.5A8, but the terminals are not listed in the parts book. You would have to find some that fitted, either by PMing plumpton or looking here...



You don't need to use the charging connector, but it saves having to hack into your main loom for a 12V source.

_________________
08 Specialized Langster

Thank you YGH and Pash. Quality answers.
That will fix me up.
Cheers

I didn't bother with the charging connector and attached my new wiring to the battery with a couple of crimped on ring connectors that I put round the terminal screws.