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HankPfister
12-14-2007, 07:53 AM
OK, thanks to a #X**!!^& cat, I ended up with a spare heated passenger seat from the R1200RT I sold. The seat had lots of little holes from that danged Cat's claws. I replaced the RT with a GS. Now as winter sets in I'm missing the heated seats of the RT. So I"ve pealed back the cover on the RT passenger seat and removed the heat grid. Then I pealed back the cover on my GS seat and placed the heat grid under the cover and glued it in place with some spray glue, then replaced the cover. My question is about wiring the seat to my GS, as I don't have a factory plug to simply plug in the existing plug that is on the heat grid. I've got two wires hanging under my GS seat now, one for the switch with 3 wires, white with yellow stripe, white with blue stripe, and brown. Then the plug wire has 4 wires, white with blue strip, white with yellow stripe, white with green stripe, and brown. My assumption is that two of these wires are for communicating with the RT's computer, and for dashboard info. And two are for powering the seat. My hope is to cut off the existing plug, wire in a two prong trailer style plug, put a similar plug from my Centrek fuse box, and start warming my buns. Would I be correct to wire my hot lead to the white/green and ground lead to brown, and tape up the white/blue and white/yellow wires? If I use a continuity tester across the brown wire and the white/green wire it shows continuity. I'm pretty much an electrical idiot. Thanks for any help.

HankPfister
12-27-2007, 10:08 AM
That worked, sort of. Wiring my switched hot lead to the white/green wire, and the brown wire to ground got the seat fired up and heating, BUT did not allow the switch to control the heat. It is on high all the time. Experimenting with other wiring combos did nothing. So what I've come up with is a simple on-off switch that controls the heat, and not use the original low-off-high switch. So now I am asuming that the low-off-high switch actually communitcated with the R1200RT's computer, and the computer actually controlled the heat level. Anyway, I did have nice toasty buns on my ride into work this am. :clap