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25-08-20, 07:45 PM | #51 |
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Re: Gen1 battery woes again!
I'm going down the 'voltage gauge' route too, have you seen the 12v volt gauges that have an 'on-off' switch on ebay? About £6.00 . So you can have the gauge wired direct to the battery and choose either on or off while you ride.
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25-08-20, 08:15 PM | #52 | |
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Re: Gen1 battery woes again!
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Just had a thought - I have a direct to battery charging lead with SAE plug on it, may use another spare SAE lead to connect voltmeter into same plug - as I will never want voltmeter and charger plugged in at the same time, the charging lead is fused as well right next to battery + so it would be a win-win.... update - after connecting the voltmeter direct to battery by re-purposing an old SAE plug and cable it reads maximum 0.1volts low now, so all the inaccuracy I was seeing was the volts drops in bikes cable loom and plugs -( every day is a school day ) - loom was dropping up to 0.3 volts with LED headlight and sidelight ( The LED headlight draws 1.5 amps, a normal 55/60watt filament draws about 5 amps and LED sidelight draws a few milli-amps compared to 0.5 amp for a filament one ). When I turned on LED spots drawing about 0.7 amps each the volt drop hit 0.6volts. Downside is I have to plug voltmeter in if I want to use it ( I unplug when parked for battery drain ).
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