[multistrada 1200 Enduro] Battery Charger

Why do you want to use the port under the seat? That means you need to remove your seat to charge?

I have a Noco Genius 5 which is blooming great, and have a permanently connected flylead to the battery that's routed to the passenger footrest hanger, where it's secured. Does the job perfectly and can be connected without any fuss, keeping the battery topped up and conditioned. Works on 6v or 12v and on a variety of battery types. Great bit of kit.



You perhaps have a very specific requirement, in which case my solution won't help one bit.

 

Optimate 3 on mine, direct to battery. Also interested in why you want to go via the diagnostic port?

 

The Optimate option is a lead that plugs into the port under the seat and stays there. Like yours the tail end of the lead can go where ever you want it to plug into the lead from the charger.

In response to the OP. I use an Optimate 4, or rather used to, plugged in via the Ducati specific lead. Having moved last year to a place with a garage, albeit one without power, I now use a 20w Optimate Solar Charger plugged into the same lead. Both set-ups do as they claim and keep my battery topped up despite tracker and alarm. I have the Optimate 4.5m extension lead between the solar panel and the lead on the bike.

The lead could be a touch longer is really mu only criticism.

 

IIRC in normal mode. As stated, due to no mains in my garage, I'm no longer using the Optimate 4. The solar charger doesn't have any fancy options, just a self regulating controller. This works well but took a couple of weeks to bring a battery, that had my tracker pinging me messages that the battery was getting depleted, back to full charge. Bike had sat for a couple of months without a charger as I had other things going on that prevented me sorting out the solar option.

 

I reckon that the Optimate 2 would do a decent job. Though reading their blurb I think the Optimate 4 might do a better job of recovering a battery in poor condition. Not sure about the Canbus option, Optimate call it the BMW CAN-BUS program so might only be applicable to BMWs anyway?

Pretty sure that the Ducati adapter is just a route into a continently permanently live connection to the battery. Neater than multiple connections onto the battery terminals.

 

Chaps, new to me 1200DVT, it has the optimate lead connected to the diagnostic port, but when I connect my optimate it appears to charge when the ignition is on (and for a short time when it is turned off) but not when the ignition is off, any ideas?
Thanks
G

 

Hmm, strange, first two times it stopped shortly after ignition was turned off and now appears to be operating correctly! Most peculiar, just off to watch a documentary on the Bermuda Triangle