Installing the ezCAN Scandes for Husqvarna motorcycles

This is a step-by-step guide to installing the HEX ezCAN Scandes for Husqvarna.

The following Husqvarna motorcycles are supported:

  • Norden 901 (2022+)
  • Norden 901 Explorer (2023+)
  • 1x ezCAN device (Black body)
  • 1x JWPF-to-male-Euro 5/female-Euro 5 splitter cable with integrated horn (green) and high beam (red) trigger outputs
  • 1x MicroUSB-to-USB C cable, with included USB C-to-USB A adaptor
  • 4x rubber blanking seals
  • 3x power-circuit blanking plugs
  • 20x cable ties
  • 4x two-wire stub connectors (Black/Orange wiring)
  • 4x terminal wires (Orange)
  • 1x male+female spade terminal

The Norden 901 is based on the KTM 890 electronic platform, and is subject to the same ezCAN functionality limitations:

  • Auxiliary brake lights activate on front brake usage only.
  • Front auxiliary lights cannot be toggled on and off using the bike’s handlebar-mounted controls. For workarounds and auxiliary light hardware control options, refer to the Operating auxiliary front lights section of the ezCAN User Manual. Download the manual from this page.
  • ezCAN functionality that depends on turn signals is not available.
  • ezCAN functionality that switches off or flashes auxiliary front lights on turn signal activation is not available.
  • Support for Run/Brake/Turn signal functionality is not available.
  • ezCAN functionality that depends on day/night brightness differentiation (such as front auxiliary light modulation) is not available.

HEX ezCAN Scandes for Husqvarna packaging:

SCHRITT 1:

HERUNTERLADEN, INSTALLIEREN UND KONFIGURIEREN DER SOFTWARE

This is a good time to:

  • Unbox the ezCAN.
  • Decide what and how many accessories you will be installing, and their requirements. Must some accessories be connected in a specific manner and/or to specific power circuits? As an example, low-powered ‘smart’ accessories must typically be installed on the ezBUS (White) power circuit.
  • Read the Installing for Life section of the ezCAN User Manual (downloadable from here), and evaluate your planned installation according to the guidelines in that section.
  • Register your ezCAN (All you need to do to register the ezCAN is connect it to your computer using the supplied USB cable, meaning you can do it at the comfort of your desk.)

SCHRITT 2:

LOCATE THE DIAGNOSTIC CONNECTOR AND BATTERY

To access the diagnostic connector and battery:

  1. Remove the seat. The battery cover will be exposed (green arrow, below).

2. Remove the battery cover by pulling the cover away from the fuel tank (below).

The Euro 5-type diagnostic connector used on Husqvarna Norden 901 models looks like this:

SCHRITT 3:

Stecken Sie den ezCAN in den CAN-BUS

IMPORTANT: Do not connect the ezCAN’s CAN-bus connector to any part of the motorcycle other than the diagnostic connector. If you do, the ezCAN will not function.

  1. Install the main body of the ezCAN in the vicinity of the bike’s diagnostic connector. In the example below, the main body has been installed over the battery, underneath the battery cover.

2. Remove the protective cap from the bike’s diagnostic connector (green arrow, above).
3. A JWPF-to-Euro 5 diagnostic splitter cable is included in the ezCAN Scandes installation kit. Plug the female JWPF (white) connector on the splitter cable into the ezCAN’s male JWPF connector.
4. Connect the splitter cable’s male Euro 5 plug to the motorcycle’s diagnostic connector.
5. Press the protective cap that was removed from the bike’s diagnostic connector onto the splitter cable’s female Euro 5 plug.

The splitter cable’s female Euro 5 plug ensures that a diagnostic connector is available to be used for diagnostic fault-finding without having to unplug the ezCAN from the motorcycle.

SCHRITT 4:

CONNECT THE ezCAN TO THE BIKE'S BATTERY

ezCAN cable routing may depend on a number of factors, including your personal preference.

Ensure that the wiring is routed safely and securely, in a way that does not allow it to chafe or pinch. Where needed, secure all wiring to frame tubes or other components using the cable ties supplied with the ezCAN installation kit.

WARNING: For safety reasons, always disconnect the negative battery terminal first, and re-connect it last. 

  1. Start the installation by locating the main body of the ezCAN in a place that allows straightforward, logical wiring runs. We recommend installing the ezCAN main body under a seat, in the vicinity of the diagnostic connector, as this allows easier access for firmware updates and diagnostics.
  2. Disconnect the negative wiring harness terminal from the negative battery pole.
  3. Disconnect the positive wiring harness terminal from the positive battery pole.
  4. Route the ezCAN power supply cables to the battery.
  5. Connect the terminal on the orange ezCAN power cable, and the bike’s positive wiring harness terminal, to the positive battery pole.
  6. Connect the terminal on the brown ezCAN power cable, and the bike’s negative wiring harness terminal, to the negative battery pole.
  7. Tidy the CAN-bus and battery cable routing. Secure all loose cables using the cable ties included in the ezCAN installation kit, making sure you have easy access to the four power circuit plugs.


Note:
The HEX ezCAN’s status LED should be solid green for approximately a minute after connection to the battery. After this time, the ezCAN enters Sleep Mode, and there will be no LED activity until the bike’s ignition is switched ON.

SCHRITT 5:

DAS GRÜNE HUPENAUSLÖSEKABEL ANSCHLIESSEN (OPTIONAL)

The CAN-bus on Husqvarna Norden 901 models does not include a horn trigger signal. To be able to activate an accessory horn when the horn button is pressed, a separate horn trigger input to the ezCAN is provided (red wire with black female connector, below).

IMPORTANT: Even if you do not want to install an auxiliary horn on a Norden 901, the green horn trigger wire included in the ezCAN installation kit must be installed if you will be configuring front auxiliary lights to strobe on horn activation.

Enabling accessory horn triggering

  1. Remove the trim panels on the left and right sides of the fuel tank.
  2. Locate the factory horn on your bike.
  3. The factory horn has two male spade terminals, and the bike’s wiring harness connects to the horn through two separate female spade terminals. The colours of the factory horn wires are grey and yellow with blue tracer.
  4. Connect the male single-pin plug on the green ezCAN horn trigger lead to the single-pin female terminal with green wire leading from the main body of the ezCAN (below).
 
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5. Remove the spade terminal with the grey wire from the factory horn (below).

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6. Connect the ezCAN horn trigger lead’s male+female spade terminal to the exposed male terminal on the horn (below).

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7. Connect the factory female spade terminal with the grey wire to the exposed male terminal on the ezCAN horn trigger lead (right).

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Completing the horn trigger wire installation

  1. If you want to install an accessory horn, connect the accessory horn to a two-pin ezCAN stub connector (see Step 7). The stub connector will be plugged into an ezCAN power circuit of your choice.
  2. If the factory horn and/or accessory horn do not work when the bike’s horn button is pressed, see Testing the horn connection below.

Testing the horn connection

If the factory horn and/or the accessory horn do not work when the bike’s horn button is pressed, diagnose the horn circuit by doing the steps that follow:

  1. Connect the ezCAN to your computer.
  2. Launch the ezCAN configuration software.
  3. Switch the motorcycle’s ignition ON.
  4. Click the hamburger icon in the upper right corner of the HEX ezCAN Configuration Tool, then click Diagnostics (below, left).
    • The Diagnostics window will be shown (below, right).

5. Read the Horn Input Voltage value (below, right). If the ezCAN horn trigger circuit is working correctly, the value should be at or near 0V when the horn is inactive, and approximately 12V when the horn is active.

SCHRITT 6:

CONNECT THE BLUE HIGH-BEAM TRIGGER WIRE (OPTIONAL)

The CAN-bus on Husqvarna Norden 901 models does not include a high-beam trigger signal. To be able to increase or decrease the brightness of auxiliary front lights when the high-beam switch is set to high beam or the flash-to-pass button is used, a separate high-beam trigger input to the ezCAN is provided (red wire with black female connector, right).

Installation of the high-beam trigger wire is only needed if you want to increase or decrease the brightness of auxiliary front lights when the high-beam switch is set to high beam.

Enabling high-beam triggering

  1. Remove the four screws securing the bike’s front windscreen, and remove the windscreen.
  2. Remove the three screws securing the bike’s headlight.
  3. Unplug the wiring harness headlight connector (green arrow, below).

4. Remove the headlight.
5. Remove the trim panel on the left side of the fuel tank.
6. Connect the ezCAN high-beam trigger wire’s male 3-pin MT connector to the bike’s female (wiring harness) headlight MT connector (upper green arrow, below).

7. Connect the ezCAN high-beam trigger wire’s female 3-pin MT connector to the male MT connector leading from the headlight (lower left green arrow, above).
8. Route the free end of the blue trigger wire with single-pin plug through the upper left hole on the headlight cowl (green arrow, below).

9. Route the blue trigger wire down from the hole in the headlight cowl, then route the wire backward along the bike’s wiring harness (below).

10. Route the blue trigger wire under the left side of the fuel tank, toward the top of the battery (below).

11. Connect the male single-pin plug on the blue trigger wire to the female single-pin plug with red wire leading from the main body of the ezCAN (below).

12. Take up all unneeded slack along the blue trigger wire, making sure the wire is safely tucked away and cannot be damaged or chafed.

SCHRITT 7:

CONNECT THE ACCESSORIES, USING COLOUR CODING

The ezCAN installation kit includes four two-wire stub connectors with male connection terminals, orange power wires and black ground wires.

The following parts are also included:

  • 4x pulse-width modulation (PWM) terminal wires (orange with white tracer)
  • 4x rubber blanking seals

If the accessory to be connected to a power circuit has three wires, convert a two-wire stub connector to a three-wire connector as shown in the Connecting 3-wire LED lights section of the HEX ezCAN User Manual (downloadable from here).

If the accessory to be connected to a power circuit has two wires, seal the stub connector’s empty terminal cavity as shown in the Connecting 2-wire accessories section of the HEX ezCAN User Manual.

If any of the ezCAN’s power circuits will not be used, we recommend that you connect a blanking plug to the output plug of each unused circuit.


2-wire applications: insert a blanking seal.
3-wire applications: insert a PWM terminal wire.

4x terminal wires and blanking seals
4x 2-wire stub connectors

Connect the male terminal of each stub connector to the relevant female ezCAN power circuit connector (below).

Connecting a 2-wire accessory to an ezCAN stub connector:

  1. Connect the accessory’s ground/Earth wire (this is usually, but not always black or brown) to the ground wire of an ezCAN stub connector.
  2. Connect the accessory’s power wire (this is usually, but not always red) to the 12V power wire of an ezCAN stub connector.


Connecting a 3-wire accessory to an ezCAN stub connector:

  1. Connect the accessory’s ground/Earth wire and power wire as described above.
  2. Connect the accessory’s PWM control wire to the dual-colour (solid colour+tracer) wire of an ezCAN stub connector.

Connecting low-power smart accessories to a power circuit:

If you are installing ‘smart’ accessories (that is, low-power accessories capable of intelligent input and control through the ezCAN’s LIN bus), note the following:

  1. Smart accessories (including the HEX ezSWITCH) must only be connected to the ezCAN’s ezBUS (white) power circuit. Smart accessories will not work if connected to the red, yellow or blue circuits.
  2. The ezBUS (white) power circuit can accommodate any odd or even number of individual accessories, to a maximum of fifteen.
  3. A selection of HEX ezBUS adaptors and connectors is available, allowing you to connect smart accessories quickly and easily. See the ezBUS Accessories section of the Hex Innovate online store for details.


Read the Hex ezBUS and Configuring Hex ezBUS functionality sections of the ezCAN user manual (downloadable from here) for detailed information on how to use ezBUS functionality.

Note that if the white circuit is set to ezBUS mode, its fuse trip limit is set to 15 Amps by default. If needed, ezBUS PWR functionality can be used to increase the white circuit’s current capacity to a maximum of 30 Amps in ezBUS mode. See the relevant section of the ezCAN User Manual for details.

IMPORTANT: If the accessory stub connectors included in your ezCAN installation kit do not have orange power wires, but instead have colours that match the colouring of the ezCAN power circuits (as seen below), always connect like-to-like (red stub connector to red power circuit, blue stub connector to blue power circuit, and so on.)

EASIER INSTALLATION WITH THE ezCAN EXTENSION KIT

The HEX ezCAN Extension Kit contains everything you need to connect front auxiliary lights, rear accessory lights and a horn to the ezCAN. It also includes additional connectors that allow you to connect other accessories.

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  • 2x 1.5m 3-core extension cables (typically used for 2-wire or 3-wire front auxiliary lights)
  • 1x 0.5m 3-core extension cable (typically used for a rear running/brake light)
  • 1x 1.5m 2-core extension cable, with spade connectors (typically used to connect air horns or other 2-wire accessories)
  • 3x female MT-3 connectors, including terminal pins and terminal seals
  • 5x male MT-3 connector kit, including terminal pins and terminal seals
  • 5x rubber blanking seals (used in cases where only two terminals are used in a 3-wire MT-3 connector)
  • 6x 20mm sections of adhesive-lined heat-shrink tubing
  • 2x 6.3mm female spade connector terminals
  • 1m cable sheathing
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Horn-Verlängerung
Kleberbeschichtete Wärmeschrumpfung & 1m Ummantelung
Bremse/Zubehör-Erweiterung

SCHRITT 8:

DIE INSTALLATION TESTEN

WARNING: Test and check your installations and accessories in a safe, controlled environment before first use. Caution is advised at all times. Extra vigilance is needed when testing new features or accessories. You do so at your own risk.

DISCLAIMER: Hex Innovate is not liable for any injury or damage, howsoever caused, and all products and services are used at your own risk.

Before finalizing the ezCAN installation or re-installing any components you may have removed, it is important that you test all newly installed accessories for satisfactory fitment and correct operation.

Many ezCAN-powered accessories can be tested by switching the ignition ON and operating the relevant controls. Exceptions include:

  • Accessories for which you have enabled the Only on when engine running feature (examples may include Aux 1 lights, Aux 2 lights, MotoLights, and heated clothing). To test these functions, the bike’s engine must be running.
  • Some brake light functions require that the bike be moving at or above a certain speed. As examples, Flash on Emergency Stop and Flash on Rapid Engine Braking functions require deceleration of more than 21 Kilometres per hour per second.

SCHRITT 9:

DIE INSTALLATION ABSCHLIESSEN

Complete the ezCAN installation as follows:

  1. Make sure the main body of the ezCAN is well-secured in a place where it is protected from pressure, heat and impact.
  2. Make sure all factory, ezCAN and accessory cables and wiring harnesses are well clear of all moving parts, and securely fastened. Where needed, use the cable ties included in the ezCAN installation kit.
  3. Replace all motorcycle components and fasteners that may have been removed to facilitate the ezCAN installation.
  4. Inspect the complete installation for mistakes or problems, and fix all problems that you have noted.
  5. Test all new accessories for correct operation a second time.
  6. If you have not already done so, download the ezCAN user manual from this page.
  7. Keep the manual in a safe place on your computer, tablet or phone: it contains all the information you need to operate the ezCAN and adjust its functionality.

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