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Multifunctional Single Guage Cluster Pics

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pete said:
The big deal is convincing the Mrs it's required for an anniversary present in March... hahaha
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Here, let me help:
"baby it will be sooo much safer if I know my real speed"

"think of the money from speeding tickets it could save us"

Or the emotional blackmail route
".....if you really loved me....."

Hope this helps:)
 
Englishman said:
Here, let me help:
"baby it will be sooo much safer if I know my real speed"

"think of the money from speeding tickets it could save us"

Or the emotional blackmail route
".....if you really loved me....."

Hope this helps:)
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Hahahahaa I at least know this much... I'm sure both of those will have the same result... not convinced it's the desired result though :rolleyes:

My guess is it will depend on the Valentine's Day present... ;)
 
7th day said:
My Acewell on '81 GS750E

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On an unrelated-to-gauge-clusters note, what handlebars are those? I'm guessing the "European" style bars?
 
I think the bars were either Daytona or Superbike but I can't remember for sure.
 
This is what I ended up with and I love it:

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Not too expensive. I think Dime City Cycles have them in the US - I bought mine from Modern Motorcycles in Australia. The speedo has oil, indicator, neutral and hi-beam lights in it.

Also check out Motogadget

http://motogadget.com/?___store=en

Who have some VERY cool stuff.
 
Yeah that's why I didn't buy it! I got the two clocks for way less than one Motogadget cost. And in the end I like the look of the two clocks on my bike and my speedo has little pictographs for the idiot lights where the motogadget just has LEDs.
 
Ok, so I expect Paul's going to want this thread updated once my Acewell gets installed this Saturday, and I got one of these:

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7th Day... how did you connect the tacho on yours? The diagram shows coil + or the spark plug lead, but the GS ignition system uses coil - to turn the coil on and off and it would be much neater to drive it from there rather than wrap it around the plug lead.

Paul, thought I'd pop this in here to get the thread surfaced again so I can share how it goes on Saturday :)
 
I'm pretty sure I connected to the coil primary lead. Would go check for you but I don't have the bike anymore.
 
7th day said:
I'm pretty sure I connected to the coil primary lead. Would go check for you but I don't have the bike anymore.
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Cool, thanks for that, seems lots of people have different answers, time to just fiddle and see what works by the looks.
 
Ok Paul, there ya go:





I'll be making a better bracket to centre it, but it works like a charm and I'm real happy with it.

Tacho successfully runs off the negative side of the coil with the included 1M resistor.
 
Now I'm happy... got my gear position indicator back and added a voltage monitor to go with the Acewell:

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Damn Pete that looks good all kinds of futuristic... GS love...lol. I like it. I would never have thought to lay it out the way you did but it works really well. Good job my brother from down under.

Paul
 
Redneck said:
Damn Pete that looks good all kinds of futuristic... GS love...lol. I like it. I would never have thought to lay it out the way you did but it works really well. Good job my brother from down under.

Paul
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Cheers Paul! Not what I originally envisaged but once I laid it all out and worked out what clearance I had between the ignition switch and fly screen it sort of designed itself in the end, but I'm really happy with it now and that Acewell is just awesome.

I know it's not quite in line with the theme of the bike, but it's somewhat '80's science fiction style ;)
 
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