Wiring a heated Corbin Seat?

MidLife

MidLife

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Anybody running a heated Corbin Seat?

Corbin sells a wiring harness for it that ties back into the fuse box, as per their attached instructions.

The seat draws about 4 amps.

Is there a reason it couldn't be fed directly from a Fuse Box switched outlet, instead of this Corbin dedicated harness?

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No reason at all except to make more money for Corbin, as long wire/fuse capacities are not exceeded.
 
I have the Corbin heated seat and use their harness. Never had an issue with it. Works a treat still after many many years.
 
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I have the Corbin heated seat and use their harness. Never had an issue with it. Works a treat still after many many years.
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I am sure their harness works, But I don't see the need for it if you can go straight into a fused switched outlet on a Fuse Box?
 
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MidLife said:
I am sure their harness work, But I don't see the need for it if you can go straight into a fused switched outlet on a Fuse Box?
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That's a fair comment. However when I bought it way back when I didn’t have the service manual so I just did what they said. It’s fused and works fine. Never an issue.

FYI, I also installed a 12v cigar lighter socket in the left glove box at the same time. Works a treat. Also added powerlet sockets on the left too for heated vests etc. Use that for my trickle charge too! These are direct to the battery (via fuses). I wanted this so that I could charge stuff when the bike was stopped/parked. My cigar socket lives inside the glove box so I can stash whichever device I want to be charged in there and lock it away.
 
I had one for many years (actually, I still have it, but its a bit naked). I never got the instructions with it, I wired it to a 5 amp fuse in a separate wiring harness that I made for all my accessories. The fuse blew twice in all of the time that I had it. I later catered for a 7.5 Amp fuse. Always have it turning on/off with ignition and through a relay (but all of my acccessories are powered through one of two relays - one on with ignition, one on with accessories and ignition.

This diagram - post #24 - may help you to work out where the spare capacity is in the fuse box. Bear in mind this is a UK model - there will be differences.

Article [13] - ST1300 - Quartet Harness Farkle Wiring Guide | ST1300 Articles

Excellent article. This is exactly the information I was looking for to power my GPS.
www.st-owners.com www.st-owners.com
 
jfheath said:
I had one for many years (actually, I still have it, but its a bit naked). I never got the instructions with it, I wired it to a 5 amp fuse in a separate wiring harness that I made for all my accessories. The fuse blew twice in all of the time that I had it. I later catered for a 7.5 Amp fuse. Always have it turning on/off with ignition and through a relay (but all of my acccessories are powered through one of two relays - one on with ignition, one on with accessories and ignition.

This diagram - post #24 - may help you to work out where the spare capacity is in the fuse box. Bear in mind this is a UK model - there will be differences.

Article [13] - ST1300 - Quartet Harness Farkle Wiring Guide | ST1300 Articles

Excellent article. This is exactly the information I was looking for to power my GPS.
www.st-owners.com www.st-owners.com
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Good to hear it can work fine without the Corbin dedicated harness, also about the 7.5 A fuse. Thank you.

The seat I am looking at is for single rider, was yours dual?

Planning to connect into a Fuse Box (relayed switched) pigtailed to the battery.
 
Just in case you are wondering about the Corbin seat. I have the Corbin smuggler too. Love this set up for 1-up riding since I get a little back rest.

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MidLife said:
The seat I am looking at is for single rider, was yours dual?

Planning to connect into a Fuse Box (relayed switched) pigtailed to the battery.
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Ah - yes it was - so a 5A fuse will be plenty big enough. The installed wiring controls the heat electronically, and it has a sensor in the wiring which knocks the power off if the seat gets too hot.
My black box packed in after about 120,000 miles of use, so I just joined the front and rear loops and attached it to a relay to the switch on the side of the seat. That worked just as well - but it would have been far too hot if I had connected the two loops in parallel.
 
jfheath said:
Ah - yes it was - so a 5A fuse will be plenty big enough. The installed wiring controls the heat electronically, and it has a sensor in the wiring which knocks the power off if the seat gets too hot.
My black box packed in after about 120,000 miles of use, so I just joined the front and rear loops and attached it to a relay to the switch on the side of the seat. That worked just as well - but it would have been far too hot if I had connected the two loops in parallel.
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The little black box is probably easy to make. I assume there’s a thermistor in the seat to measure temperature. A regulator and a comparator (temp on one terminal and potential divider on other terminal with a FET on the output to switch the seat on/off would do it). If you have a picture of the inside of the black box I might be able to reverse engineer it if need be.
 
jfheath said:
........The installed wiring controls the heat electronically, and it has a sensor in the wiring which knocks the power off if the seat gets too hot.....
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Was wondering about how they were controlling the heat. Thanks.

I have another heated seat with a controller built into the harness, but didn't see such thing on the Corbin seat pigtail, hence my wondering if I absolutely had to have the ($50 + shipping) Corbin Harness for control. Good to know I don't!
 
MidLife said:
Was wondering about how they were controlling the heat. Thanks.

I have another heated seat with a controller built into the harness, but didn't see such thing on the Corbin seat pigtail, hence my wondering if I absolutely had to have the ($50 + shipping) Corbin Harness for control. Good to know I don't!
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Good to know.
 
@MidLife many thanks for manual shared. I've powered my used Corbin under it and things working just fine. Tested while today ride +8°C and 140km/h top speed.
Passenger seat was re-cased to fit style.
 

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Although I do have a Heated Corbin, I've never used it. It came on one of the bikes I bought.

However, I do have a heated RDL and I hooked it through a "Heated Gear" thermostat controller, so I can control how much heat gets to it. The Controller is a dial type, like you would hook up to a heated vest or gloves. And that hooks up to your battery or like in my case, my fuseblock.

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The single operates the saddle heat and the double operates my gloves and liner.

And BTW, I remove them when the weather doesn't require heated gear.
 
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