Forza 300 battery tender lead access

[JohnVTR]

I have a 2019 Forza and want to attach my Optimate fused eyelet lead so I can trickle charge. To avoid removing the whole battery cover (the one with three screws) each time it would be good to use the existing removable hatch (marked Lid Battery Cable 81264-K0B-T00) so the Optimate connector could be easily accessed. Unfortunately the only good way to remove hatch is from the inside - think if you try from outside you will damage it. I suspect Honda intended for hatch to serve this purpose but can find no info at all – does Honda have a charger / wiring with a different hatch?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[JohnVTR]

Just to clear up possible confusion - not all recent style Forza's have this "Lid Battery Cable" approx 50mm x 30mm hatch for example my friends bit older Forza 125 does not have it

[ghmpm]

I have a 2015 and mine has the hatch. I use it for that purpose (maintainer). I use only one screw for the battery cover because it is such a pain to access.

[JohnVTR]

Glenn yes the three screws are a pain. I was hoping that someone had a trick way of removing the hatch from the storage side of cover and not the battery side or that Honda made a special hatch that had the ability of removal from storage side.....

John

[MBMyer]

I took out that battery cover, cut a notch in it, and bolted the standard battery tender two-wire connector onto the top of the battery, then ran the wire out of the notch I had cut. I added about a 6' extension and leave the charger in my house with just its tail sticking out under a locked window next to where I park the bike (outside; no garage). When I want trickle charge the batter, I open the Forza’s seat, unroll the extension, and plug it in.

A few pix available upon request.

[Old Scoot]

.......A few pix available upon request.

Why on request? Why not post them?

[MBMyer]

Laziness. Too many other projects. Why take the effort to shoot pix & post if no one cares?

[Old Scoot]

Laziness. Too many other projects. Why take the effort to shoot pix & post if no one cares?

If you say so, but maybe I cared but then again why post your reply in the first place if you already know that no one care's, kind of strange to me

[MBMyer]

Posting a few words takes a minute. Going out, taking pictures, resizing them to fit the restrictions on this forum, and getting them posted.... That takes a while longer. If people want me to do that, I will. Otherwise, my lunch break is about over and I have to get back to work.

[you you]

Posting a few words takes a minute. Going out, taking pictures, resizing them to fit the restrictions on this forum, and getting them posted.... That takes a while longer. If people want me to do that, I will. Otherwise, my lunch break is about over and I have to get back to work.

I’d love some pictures please.

[MBMyer]

OK, here are some pictures that I hope will illuminate what I did.

First, here are the leads (with fuse) attached to the battery:

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Now, here you can see where I cut a notch in the flip-up portion of the batter cover, and you can see the sort of connectors that came with my battery tender and with the extension I acquired.

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When I set the battery cover down and take out the slack on the wire, it looks like this:

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This is the lead that is connected to the battery plugged into the extension, which is tossed out of the under-seat storage area and ready to be plugged in.

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Here is the wire coming out from under the seat. There is a Thermoscud cover on the bike right now, but you can see daylight peeking at you from the other side of the Thermoscud.

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This is the lead from the charger that I leave sticking out from under the window. Yes, I know about all of the maintenance that needs to be done on the house here. Did I not mention all of the projects I am in the middle of? And this is the north side of the house, so just wait until you see all of the green growing onto the bricks that needs to be killed off. The window itself is a double-pane argon-filled thingy. This means that the wire has several permanent crimps in it, but it continues to work well after six years.

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Here is what the wire looks like when the battery is charging and the bike is under its cover (a Cycle Shell). This is why I needed a long extension for my application. And, again, comments about all of the maintenance I need to do around the house will be ignored. I am well aware and have way too many tasks but far too little time on my hands.

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When I’m not charging the poor beast and just riding around, I simply cap that long wire and toss it under the seat (along with all of the shopping bags and sunglasses):

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I did a similar thing way back in the 80s, but back then I had to cobble together my own wires and connectors. Radio Shacks were common in those days, so I used RCA connectors and lamp cord. This time around, I was able to find factory-made components instead of soldering and heat-shrinking my own.

I hope this helps someone.

Pax et bonum,
Michael

[you you]

Excellent. Neat job.

[Old Scoot]

Thank you for sharing

[you you]

Thank you for sharing

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