ACE instrument cluster

[keithcross]

Took a picture of my ACE instruement cluster today. My album also shows pictures of my baggi that I took today

http://www.mzriders.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=193

The Trailtech unit will be removed shortly.

And this is the LED rear light I have fitted. No picture of it on the bike though.

http://www.mzriders.com/album_thumbnail.php?pic_id=196

Keith

[cat]

oh boy, that's good!
It's even got all the lights.
Where'd you get it? How much? Is it lighter, d'you think? - At least you lost the heavy speedo cable.

And the magnet? I was looking at the magnets on a site where I was ordering other stuff, but they didn't have one that was 7mm diameter and I know they're hard to grind. I've been meaning to look at the trailtech magnets. But you've got an R1 disk.

One thing I've wondered about though is what happens when the battery is finished - do you lose the total mileage?

And I see you've got lights. I've thought of getting something small to add to the headlight. (The nickname cat is from years ago when I had good night vision.) So that's one good thing about the "bullbar" - you don't have to organise light mounts.

[keithcross]

[cat]

Are they both "driving" lights - spots - with maybe one angled lower, or fog lamp more spread beam?

I was thinking getting one of the little Hella FF lights and angling it down - it's more low beam light I need.

Did you use a relay? Where's the switch?

Water temp? Oil temp would be more interesting.

[keithcross]

Hi Cat

I actually find dip beam adequate with a PIA bulb fitted. But during my commute, down single track lanes, a better high beam was required for picking out detail further out. I like to be able to see things in the road like stones and deer as soon as possable. Plus the roads dont have much in the way of traffic on them and due to the width of the road any passing is normally quite a slow affair.
I did use a relay as I do with most accessories that take more than a few milliamps to protect the bikes wiring. The relay is switched when main beam is selected.
My heated handlebar grips are also supplied via a relay switched bt the tail light circuit so I dont leave them on when I turn the bike off.
Both circuits have of course got a fuse fitted to the relay supply.
Before anyone asks I do not suffer from a lack of power at any time, the bikes generator seems to cope with the additional load, but I dont spend much time in built up areas or speeds below 45-50 mph.

Keith

[cat]

Thanks, I'll know who to ask when I add lights, if I need help with the relay and so on.

My application is probably quite different; a lot of urban or semi-urban freeways without much traffic, where I use high beam - because I need it at 120kmh - but I sometimes need to switch to low beam because the barrier or hedge or whatever is not enough to stop it bothering people on the other side or it's too much for the cars I approach from behind.

In the city, I keep noticing that the sportbikes - and the modern scooters that look like sportbikes from the front, the better ones, I suppose - have really bright, big visible headlights.

A while ago, when I was buying stuff for my R100GS project, I read all these reports/tests that said that the Osram Silverstar and the Phillips VisionPlus were the best, and I got one of the Phillips VisionPlus bulbs.
Then when I got the Baghira, I thought the headlight seemed quite good, but I thought I'd put in the VisionPlus and see how much better it was. Well, it turned out that that was what the Baghira came with! Another good quality part on it.

There's no deer problem here, just non-reflective people that sometimes walk into the road - we have a very high pedestrian death rate here. But we certainly have the possibility of stones and potholes on the secondary roads.

[Bagwan]

What about the mini spotlights they put on the big Beemer trailies? You carn't miss them in the daytime and they seem to have a pretty good spread at night. Hard to tell what the beam would be like as i've only ever seen them mounted on engine bars

[Fil]

Glad you managed to find the ACE unit mate!

I'm well chuffed with mine, but I kind of wish I got the one with the idiot lights like yours - I've still got to tidy mine up...

I'm supprised more people haven't gone for these speedos!!

[keithcross]

I am suprised you dont see more of these units as well. Its a lot of extra £££ to have th eidiot lights, but it does make the whole set up tidier.
Lots of motard riders cant fit them though, no battery to run it

Keith

[cat]

[Fil]

How/ where did you mount the magnet & sensor Keith?

[keithcross]

I already had a magnet fitted to teh front disc for the Endurance unit and works teh ACE unit OK. The magnet was glued on to the disc rotor with areldite about 2 years ago and is holding fine.

Keith