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[DonTom]

My son-in-law's favorite motorcycle is a 1985 Kawasaki GPz550. (Don't ask me why.    ) It had an LCD display on top of the fuel tank that kept track of several systems on the bike. One of the things that I recall is that it had a sensor in its battery that would alert the rider to low battery acid level without the rider needing to pull the battery and check it manually. I thought that was pretty neat. Of course now that maintenance-free batteries are all the rage, that device in no longer needed and I bet you can't find a battery that has such a sensor built-in anymore. There were a number of advanced features on Japanese motorcycles during the early 1980's which went by the wayside during the great Japanese motorcycle depression of the mid-1980's. Never to return, likely due to cost considerations and lack of demand by motorcycle customers.

My 1984 Venture also checks the battery acid level. It works by a sensor in the battery looking for around six volts. When they went to maintenance free batteries, I added a 22K-ohm resistor in series with the 12 volts  + to feed the wire with 6 VDC that no longer has a sensor. That keeps the low level alarm off with a modern battery that has no such sensor.


-Don-  Reno, NV

[scottwstevenson]

I put in the STS Turn signal cancelling module a week or so ago.  Works pretty well and also retains the ability to self-cancel (but to do so you need to press the turn signal again in the same direction, rather than cancel with a center press as was originally the case with my 2020 Zero DSR).

Write up here:

https://www.electricmotorcycleforum.com/boards/index.php?topic=10147.msg104294#msg104294

(Continues to work pretty well. No to much with lane changes,  unless I over exaggerate leaning into the "turn" but decently on most turns of 90? or more...)

-Scott

[2020_SRS_Commuter]

I tested the auto cancel on my 2020 SRS on the way home from work last week. As soon as the odometer rolled to a new mile I turned the right blinker on. I was on a rural road at night. The signal turned off within... I'd estimate, 200 yards or less.

[Crissa]

I tested the auto cancel on my 2020 SRS on the way home from work last week. As soon as the odometer rolled to a new mile I turned the right blinker on. I was on a rural road at night. The signal turned off within... I'd estimate, 200 yards or less.

What speed were you traveling?

-Crissa

[2020_SRS_Commuter]

Did the same test last night with the left blinker, you know, for science. Starting from the same stoplight to the exact same point in the road where it turned off last time.
This time I was going 50, last time about 60. So I assume it is by distance and not time. Between 100 and 200 yards distance.