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This is a good thing. Mine get the fix Saturday morning.
Word of advice: if you put them in the pocket, mount them down low or they'll interfere with getting the pocket in and out.
Word of advice if you are mounting the Powerlet in a front pocket - mount it at least one inch off the bottom on the front side of the pocket. I mounted the Honda power jack in the right pocket, glad I put it and inch and a half up. After ridding 2 hours in a really heavy rain on a trip last summer, I had water in the bottom of both pockets. More than the drain hole could keep up with (hole may have even been the source), there was a couple of drops in both of the side Panniers as well. My tool bag under the seat on the lock area was soaked. The tool bag is now in a water proof bag.
But if it's just surface water, a few drops, and there are drain holes, water will find its way out again.
On the V-Strom I installed a complete exposed bus-bar type thing for power, velcroed to the inside of the fairing where I could see it from the rider's seat. I had a fuse upstream between it and the battery, and smaller fuses downstream between it and my devices. I never blew a fuse on either side, and the devices attached to it never gave me a lick of trouble. All the care I took was to make sure there was no place for the water to pool, that it couldn't touch anything that would be a short, and I sprayed it with De-Oxit every time I had it out, to keep it from corroding. After five years it was still good as new. I suspect it would corrode over ten or twenty years if not maintained, but with maintenance it was fine.
And look at the wiring harness in a stock bike. Water can get into most of the connectors. But the problem isn't the water - it's the corrosion.