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[humanbeing]

Originally Posted by cheesy

Still need to figure out how to stop the fuel gauge from flashing...

Fed a Dummy load (Typical chinese 100Ω's valve: http://chinariders.net/showthread.php?t=17413) fools it...

[cheesy]

Originally Posted by humanbeing

Fed a Dummy load (Typical chinese 100Ω's valve: http://chinariders.net/showthread.php?t=17413) fools it...

Thanks, hb. I did try that on the bench using various resistors, both grounded and powered. Also tried pots to get spot on. No soap. Either nothing changed or the entire unit would flash with the low voltage indicator coming on. I am fast approaching judicial use of black tape to cover the fuel gauge.

Thought about opening the case to remove the button on the back and the just soldering leads to connect to the dash mounted button. That case ain't opening. It's really glued tight.

[BlackBike]

Originally Posted by cheesy

Thanks, hb. I did try that on the bench using various resistors, both grounded and powered. Also tried pots to get spot on. No soap. Either nothing changed or the entire unit would flash with the low voltage indicator coming on. I am fast approaching judicial use of black tape to cover the fuel gauge.

Thought about opening the case to remove the button on the back and the just soldering leads to connect to the dash mounted button. That case ain't opening. It's really glued tight.

Worse yet, that button is probably soldered to a board too

[cheesy]

Originally Posted by BlackBike

Worse yet, that button is probably soldered to a board too

That doesn't bother me much. If worse comes to worse, I can open up the hole on the back where the switch is and just solder leads to the board mounted switch and run them to the remote switch.

Stuff did happen today.


First headache was that the OD of new speedo is 88.5mm. The ID of the hole was 85.5mm. Started opening the hole with a Dremel and stone. After about ten minutes of this, and knocking off a whole .25mm, I glanced up and saw my air compressor. And then a light went on and I said to myself, "Self, are you an idiot, or what? There is a drawer in the big tool box with air tools. I bet if you look, there is a die grinder with a real stone in there. Jackass."

So, five minutes later, the speedo dropped in place. I also figured out that the big rubber ring on the Ural speedo wasn't for looks, but to lift the speedo high enough to clear a crossbar running through the nacelle. So, I needed to do some OE&F on that, too.


Then I called it a day. CX500 for the next week or so. Will see if I can still ride it.

[BlackBike]

That's where the dremmel will come in for the back of the case to extract the button. I used to scoff at the dremmel tool till my uncle raved so much about it that I broke down many years ago and got a set. I just used it to cut out a damaged bearing race on a rotary torso machine the other day, mighty handy indeed.

Looking good!