Sena 20S needs blanking plug for safe removal of the speakers
If only using the earbud option then the supplied speakers are unnecessary. Removing them leaves an un sealed hole into the electrics of the base unit.
A blanking plug needs to be supplied to prevent water entry.
As the earbud option is far better for listening to music and intercom I would think most people would want to remove the speakers.
Good point jeff.
not only a blanking plug is needed... the rest of the unit has to be made a little bit better water resistant. for example the USB rubber lip on the 20s opens downwards.... so if you ride in rain the top part can let water in more easily. it's like the designer did not think of rain falling down on the unit :X
I just put a piece of medical waterproof adhesive tape over the hole. Very easy to do and I think that will keep the water out.
@WMR: The 20S USB cover also folds the wrong way to work with the included right-angle USB cable. One has to bend the rubber flap app the way back to insert the plug. It would make more sense if the flap was hinged on the other side but that won't help those of us who have already purchased.
Dgreen, I agree it seems a little bass ackwards the way the USB plug goes in. I may just buy a couple of straight plug cables on Amazon. One other thing to be careful of is that if you yank on any of the rubber covers they come off and can be lost. I accidentally did that. They are not as secure as I think they should be.
Honestly, I think there are very few users in this situation. How many users buy a bluetooth speaker headset, but don't use the speakers? Don't get me wrong, I totally get your position and could understand where your coming from since the audio quality between plugs (I love the Sol Republic Relys for wearing under the helmet since there flat) and speakers is night and day, but I don't think there are enough users for this to be economically viable. Simply cover with some electrical tape, since after all it will be covered by the helmet padding. If anything, they could simply put covers on the cable ends for packaging and shipping purposes (like the little transparent caps on most HDMI cables) which are intended to be discarded with the packaging, but I still see this wasteful. In any case, in many (most?) state it's illegal to use earphones while riding, so I just don't see this appealing to almost anyone in particular.
Agree that a blanking plug is needed. While you're at it, a plug that uses the same bottom location as the speaker, but with a 3.5mm stereo plug-in that we could use for earbuds would be nice. Plugging earbuds into the front of the base unit works, but exposes the connection to wind driven rain.
You can purchase "weather resistant" blanking plugs on amazon, I did a year ago anyway. Still have a few, however, the waterproof tape sounds like a good idea. Maybe use both with the tape used as a "hinge" for the plug.
Most electronics are much more "weather resistant", or at least water tolerant than we give them credit for. I routinely use an older, repurposed cell phone as a Waze display and a Garmin 3590 (auto dashboard type unit) plus standard USB charging cables on my bike and have ridden in some heavy rain for hours and days at a time. NO issues.
I'm now using the blanking plug. Thanks. Haven't put it to the test yet. Still wish SENA would make their units fully waterproof.
