Speedo Conversion?
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Speedo Conversion?
Hi I have a 1993 xlh1200 with the old cable driven speedometer. I want to find a cheap way to convert to an electronic speedometer and was wondering if anyone on here has done this?
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I don't think anyone makes such an animal, at least I've never heard of one. You'd need an elect pickup of some sort on the wheel or a spark sensor and a trans sensors to tell what gear you were in. Sporty elec speedos have a pickup in the trans so a OEM upgrade is pretty much out of the question...
This is the only one I've seen...I'm not sure if this would work with any gauge other than what they sell though.
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd242.htm
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd242.htm
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This is the only one I've seen...I'm not sure if this would work with any gauge other than what they sell though.
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd242.htm
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd242.htm
This may work for what I want to do. It looks like its a pretty big sensor tho and I dont want something that sticks out when you look at my bike.
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A buddy of mine uses a bicycle speedo. It has a pickup that goes on the front wheel. I guess its one of the ones that has a high speed limit, but there is no odometer. It works well and is super low profile, not to mention cheap. I think he has a mid nineties 883.
Good luck
Good luck
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A buddy of mine uses a bicycle speedo. It has a pickup that goes on the front wheel. I guess its one of the ones that has a high speed limit, but there is no odometer. It works well and is super low profile, not to mention cheap. I think he has a mid nineties 883.
Good luck
Good luck
I would be curious how it would work with different size wheels? Also how it does at high speeds or wet conditions?
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I made up my own with a cheap electronic speedo made by Cyberdyne, i got off ebay for $60. It's actually made for cars and comes in a cheap plastic housing, so I took the metal shell housing off the old bike speedo and made it into a new housing for the electronic speedo and also waterproofed the enclosure with RTV. It's got speed, tach, odometer, and a bunch of other little features. The speed sensor is a generic magnetic sensor made by cherry electronics...about $30 retail, wired her up and all was good. The sensor I made up reads off the rear pully bolts and is waterproof, I also put heat shrink on the wires to clean up the look. Although this speedo calibrates to just about any speed sensor signal, so you can use it wether the output is sqaure or sinewaves, and calibration is done by simply running the bike at 40mph and pushing the set button, so I just had the wife pace me out with her car while I calibrated.
Otherwise cheapest option are bicycle speed sensors, but the problem with those is that they often don't have a lit display, so night riding could be a problem. But they do work just fine in the day.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...2/IMG_0135.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...2/IMG_0139.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...2/IMG_0138.jpg
Otherwise cheapest option are bicycle speed sensors, but the problem with those is that they often don't have a lit display, so night riding could be a problem. But they do work just fine in the day.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...2/IMG_0135.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...2/IMG_0139.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...2/IMG_0138.jpg
Last edited by drum412; Aug 19, 2010 at 12:33 AM.
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