| Author | Message | ||
     Swordsman |
I dunno about you guys, but I'd love to have a digital temperature display rigged up on the gauges. Anyone have any ideas? ~SM | ||
| Srwitt |
Aviation gauges? (Message edited by SRWitt on June 04, 2009) | ||
| Swordsman |
Er... what? I mean an engine temp gauge, so i could see when the bike is warm and when it's hot. Just for curiosity's sake. I know there's a replacement oil dipstick with a temp gauge on it, but I'd like one on the dash. ~SM | ||
| Srwitt |
I'm just saying look at stuff used in Aviation, they have all sorts of different temp gauges and sensors. If you don't mind cheap, hobby shops have temp guages for Nitro Powered R/C cars, they have a wire loop that you loop around the engine head and a guage hanging off the end of it, digital readouts, max temp memory and all that. Probably wouldn't reach the instrument cluster though. (Message edited by SRWitt on June 04, 2009) | ||
| Herobluebuell |
Dark horse moto has a dipstick that replaces the stock and has a temp gauge on it. | ||
| Murderface |
I have this gauge on order. It reads water or oil temps. http://www.motosport.com/street/product/KOSO-LCD-T EMPERATURE-GAUGE/?catalogId=114530&src=usersearch& words=pvnsqk&categorybox= if that doesn't work search www.motosport.com and enter pvnsqk as the motocode. | ||
| Froggy |
Sword, I have been working on something similar. My plan is to use a meat thermometer similar to the Dark Horse Moto dipstick thermometer, but get one with a remote digital display and then mount that up on the dash. I just haven't found a unit yet I would consider suitable for our purpose. | ||
| Swordsman |
Murder, that says it's a water temp gauge. I dunno how it terminates... are you having to rig a sensor on the end? Srwitt, I found those RC temeperature gauges. That looks like the way to go, except they're not waterproof. If i can find a way to extend the wire and rig up some kind of water protection, it'd be hard to beat for $20. ~SM | ||
| Glitch |
There's already a sending unit on the rear head for the fan switch. Maybe y'all can wire into that? | ||
| Hogs |
I have a digtal temp gauge that is hard wired to a drain bolt that has a wire that goes to it and ya can mount it up by the gauges I wd. sell ya.. I bought it from another Badwebber here..need 125.00 for it though... MAde to replace the drain bolt for the xb`s btw.. (Message edited by hogs on June 04, 2009) | ||
| Swordsman |
Glitch, that would be cool, but no idea what kind of signal/voltage that unit would be sending, or how to get a 3rd party display to read it. This whole idea was just for kicks. I'm not willing to spend more than.... well, as little as possible.  ~SM | ||
| Froggy |
Sword we can get this and mount it to the dash, reads all the info right off the ECM       Its a little spendy, but thats the only thing holding me back  | ||
| Murderface |
just gonna plumb it into the oil line and read the temp of the oil coming from the motor. | ||
| Swordsman |
Froggy: 1.) WTF IS that thing?! 2.) How much? 3.) Is it weatherproof? 4.) If it has a MPH indicator, to hell with the stock gauges!  ~SM | ||
| Froggy |
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/show .cgi?32777/397655 I need to drop a guy a PM to see if he has them in production for the Buell, its not listed on his website. | ||
| Rhpaw |
wow.. lotta info there. I've always thought that the best thing would be to have two LED's triggered off an oil temp sensor. Blue LED would be on until the oil got near operating temp (195) -light would go out. Red LED would enable if temp got over threshold (240 or so) Super simple and small. During normal riding you would have two off LED's and fairly good notification on what your oil temp is. But we don't have an oil temp sensor, do we? You could do the same for HeadTemp, but it wouldn't be as useful for cold info.. |
