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18-08-08, 06:35 PM | #1 |
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Electrical mods - ideas wanted
I'm in the process of changing the electrical system on my curvy. Instead of the traditional harness, I'm going to replace most of the wiring with a couple of microcontrollers and a databus. There will be one microcontroller in the front of the bike, this will read the status of the handlebar switches and control a small LCD display as well as the idiot lights. There will also be one microcontroller in the rear (possible in the tail light) which will control all lights on the bike. These microcontrollers will communicate using a simple serial protocol. By doing this I'll loose a lot of wiring and be able to do all sorts of fancy stuff with the lights, LCD, idiot lights etc. For now I won't do anything with the ignition and starter circuits, but that might change.
I'm also going to replace all lights except the headlight with LEDs (bought 200 ultrabright white LEDs a while ago, have to use them for something!) as these respond a lot quicker than bulbs. By using a microcontroller to control the lights, I can do all sorts of tricks. I can modulate all lights except the headlight, switch/fade/modulate each light individually, adjust the intensity of the lights automatically depending on how dark it is etc. There is also the LCD which will be mounted next to the gauges, this can be used for all sorts of things. Due to illness (hurt my back a while ago, and recently had some spinal surgery done) I can't work on my bike for quite a while. So I have this laptop, a couple of Arduinos, breadboards and various electronic components next to my bed and want to make something useful. I've made a mock-up of the final system using LEDs to represent the various lights, and I'm now working on the software. So far I'm aiming to implement the following features:
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18-08-08, 06:42 PM | #2 |
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Re: Electrical mods - ideas wanted
have a rear fog light option....REALLY bright for those foggy days!
could also do some sort of pattern with the LED's int he rear light with the touch of a switch. |
18-08-08, 06:46 PM | #3 |
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18-08-08, 07:00 PM | #4 |
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8 gang surge strip for those demanding camping days
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18-08-08, 07:03 PM | #5 |
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Don't think you can legally have the indicators fading in and out, they have to flash.
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18-08-08, 07:24 PM | #6 | |
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I'm afraid that the microcontroller I'm using is not able to do something like this. There's a lot of dirt-cheap LED-displays on eBay though. A friend of mine put one of those on the back of his plate, and whenever he used the pass-switch the plate would flip 180 degrees and show the LED-display. |
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18-08-08, 07:26 PM | #7 |
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Re: Electrical mods - ideas wanted
[quote=skumlerud;1598754]Good idea! I'm not sure how to switch on the fog-light though, I was hoping to use only the stock handlebar switches to keep a "factory" look.
could use some sort of thermal/enviromental switch which know when its foggy, set in the seat unit somewhere, if it exists that is. |
18-08-08, 07:26 PM | #8 |
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18-08-08, 07:30 PM | #9 |
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I'll look into this. I plan to automatically adjust the brightness of the lights depending on light-conditions anyway, this will be a variant of this. A fog-light is a good idea.
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18-08-08, 09:53 PM | #10 |
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