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Ola
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This is what I have today:
The familiar Big Box o'Gauges. The speedo is quite inaccurate and the rev counter is acting sloppy as well. I'm thinking about swapping it for some sleek, high tech German stuff from http://www.motogadget.com/
Looks cool no? Accurate speedo, accurate and beautiful rev counter, looks old school but contains cool stuff like ambient temp, oil temp, auto-measured 0-100 kph times and so on. It's not a non-functional to functional kind of swap, it's for looks, nerd functions and general coolness.
It has a gear indicator, but it's one of those where it calculates the gear from speed/rev math. But my current gear indicators works really really well, it won't light up the lamp if I get a false neutral for instance. So I want to keep that. There is also no provision for fuel gauge on the motogadget thing, so I need to roll my own or source a suitably round-housed replacement.
Some bikes came with round fuel gauges, I figure I can just pick one up on ebay given that the ohm values match. If I find a bike with different ohm range, can I tweak it with resistors?
Also, weren't there some bikes that had gear position displayed as an LCD style number in a single box? Mine has individual lamps that light up, but a single box would allow me to put it in the same type of housing as the fuel gauge, thereby completely the symmetry.
Sort of like this oOo with the Motogadget in the middle and gas/gear indicator on either side.
Like it? The wiring will take a while, fabricating the bracket will also be new ground for me, but all in all a fun little project. Ideas? Inputs? Tips I'd really like is which bikes to source gear position / fuel gauge from, also alternative solutions of course.
The familiar Big Box o'Gauges. The speedo is quite inaccurate and the rev counter is acting sloppy as well. I'm thinking about swapping it for some sleek, high tech German stuff from http://www.motogadget.com/
Looks cool no? Accurate speedo, accurate and beautiful rev counter, looks old school but contains cool stuff like ambient temp, oil temp, auto-measured 0-100 kph times and so on. It's not a non-functional to functional kind of swap, it's for looks, nerd functions and general coolness.
It has a gear indicator, but it's one of those where it calculates the gear from speed/rev math. But my current gear indicators works really really well, it won't light up the lamp if I get a false neutral for instance. So I want to keep that. There is also no provision for fuel gauge on the motogadget thing, so I need to roll my own or source a suitably round-housed replacement.
Some bikes came with round fuel gauges, I figure I can just pick one up on ebay given that the ohm values match. If I find a bike with different ohm range, can I tweak it with resistors?
Also, weren't there some bikes that had gear position displayed as an LCD style number in a single box? Mine has individual lamps that light up, but a single box would allow me to put it in the same type of housing as the fuel gauge, thereby completely the symmetry.
Sort of like this oOo with the Motogadget in the middle and gas/gear indicator on either side.
Like it? The wiring will take a while, fabricating the bracket will also be new ground for me, but all in all a fun little project. Ideas? Inputs? Tips I'd really like is which bikes to source gear position / fuel gauge from, also alternative solutions of course.
