Speedo and electrical issues..

Dunno what the problem is, but AFAIK the engine hours are actually wheel turning hours, ie how often does the speedo turn o, so no connection to the ignition as such.

Steve

Mine also just comes on when wheel is turning or a button is pushed. Also with the ignition key off, but only with the "exotic" red background light when ignintion key is on.

Guess that's of no help to you......by the way

Anders, DK

And BTW,

I have another issue with mine.. The speedo will only show speeds of up to around 90 Km/h. If giong faster is just shows Zero, and shuts off again after its 20 sec dalay. So its not getting the pulses from pickup.

Bought a new pickup but still the same. Drilled my caliper a little with a 12 mm drill to get pickup closer to magnet... still leaving 5 threads or so, but the hex head of pickup is a little countersunk now. Distance from Pickup to magnet is 2-3 mm.

Still the same.

Has anyone had any luck in putting a new magnet ???? or what is my problem. Speedo is NEW.

Sorry to hijack,

Anders. DK

I have had some problems with mine since the force ride, I think due to whacking it on a tree or something. anyway my prob was the backlight not working / working intermittently, and the display was a little hazy. I tried pulling it apart once before but got stalled at getting the circuit board out.

I tried it again last week, got the board out and swapped it with another speedo board (same model) and it worked fine, so maybe there are some fragile components inside, which may also be the cause of the pickup woes, because mine was doing a similar thing with not recording the speed properly, and as a result my odometer jumped 1000km over 20 hours or so.

I did find one curious problem, when I re fitted the speedo face, I used some super glue to reinforce some cracks in the clear plastic behind the rubber face of the speedo, and apparently the vapours of the superglue (cyanoacrylate) must carry some of the acrylic based adhesive, and proceeded to not just fog up the LCD screen on the speedo, but also render the contacts on the 3 buttons useless! it took a good 15 - 20 minutes of cleaning with carby / throttle body cleaner and various rags / tissue paper to clean the screen, but it did eventually work, and a heap of time spraying into the buttons and working them round, then blowing out with compresed air before it seemed to clean up and work properly again.

Azza.

Hi,

My speedo is brand new, and it's the old type with blue/yellow stripes on it and buttons on a seperate "remote"

The on I just replaced was same model and intermittet as you describe and when taking it apart various componens came out that had fallen off the PCB.

So yes, they defenately are not the strongest build.

Anders, DK

I'm starting to have some issues with my computer. Had a decent impact, nothing major, but the bike hit the hard-packed ground with some force. After that it keeps losing the "temporary" settings, like trip meter, clock, avg speed, etc. Was hoping it was just a loose wire, this thread has me a little concerned.

Ok, found another thread that suggested replacing the battery in the computer to start, will do that first.