Later that evening…
Nine pm.. I made dinner (haddock/veggies/wine/butter/frzn veggy mx/spices in a foil pouch on the grill) . I came to a brilliant deduction by rereading what I rambled on about, and cleaning it up a bit. Seems to me this ought to have some sort of catchy title, but I’ll be damned if I can think of one, but then perhaps we’ll see what happens. Rambling is a good start as it applies to my writing style and the adventure. While not Bilbo, it is in that spirit that I set out.
The Farkle Mess
A few weeks ago my friend Jim and I farklized (suggested spellings welcome) the Blue Flame…. No, can’t call it that… I don’t tend to name my vehicles … I had to add power for 5 to 6 devices. Radar, Sat Radio, GPS, Cell Phone, ProOiler, Future Power pack for the AudioBoss. I bought a kit from
http://www.electricalconnection.com/. I suppose I could have gone to
http://www.allelectronics.com/ for all the parts but then I’m not an electrician either. The kit does a great job. We adapted it for my bike fairly easy, placing the terminal block inside the frame.
I used a coil wire chase to secure the new harness. The relay has a lead out to the rear tail-light as the signal wire, a lead to the Positive terminal, a feed to a battery charger sensor to shut off the farkle power when on a charger and lead to the terminal block. Most grounds were routed back to the main system ground on the engine casing. The valentine has a remote power cube attachment that then uses phone cables to route power and signal. That lives inside the left frame member opposite the power block that it is connected to. I do wish for an additional switched/hot connection to the battery to power “whatever” when the bike is off.
All in all the addition of the electronics went well. We even figured out a way to epoxy a std lighter socket to the right faring mounting bracket opposite the factory one. Wow, It’s late… 10 pm.. I’m trying to getup early and in bed before 10 to set my clock. G’night…
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[ This message was edited by: JasonS on 2005-07-02 13:09 ]
