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Nov 13, 2013 | 08:35 PM

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Talldog

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Originally Posted by acchd

It's nice feature to mount on bars and monitor channels of your choice. When I bought mine they threw in Tech Mount with visor. BTW to my pleasant surprise my Garmin Nuvi fits this mount too!

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Originally Posted by MontyCop05

All the Garmins and PV as well as may other GPS units all use the AMPS mount platform.

Yea, I'm using the same Ram mount that I'm using for my phone. I ordered the square AMPS Ball adapter from Amazon to attach to the PV/Visor.

Only bad thing is, if I decide to remove the PV for awhile, just gotta leave the wire connector to the PV just hanging there. I called FM to see if there was some sort of "dummy plug" that I could plug the connector in to keep dirt/grit out of it when I had it unhooked, but no such animal exists.

Nov 13, 2013 | 08:37 PM

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Talldog

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Originally Posted by Drilln'Boss

That's how I did it, no problems at all.

Hopefully I won't either

Nov 13, 2013 | 08:57 PM

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Jersey_Marine

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Originally Posted by Talldog

I've had a Power Vision tuner from FM for a couple years, but up til now, it's just been sitting on a shelf since flashing the tune. Decided to Mount it on the bars and play with it a little. I want to try the Auto-Tune feature to see if I can "tweak" my tune just a little, and I want to be able to monitor Head Temps to see how my FCS fans are working. Ran the wire from the data connector, under the tank, and up the bars on the right side. Got the Ram Mount and Sun Shade on order. Just downloaded all the updates, now just gotta wait for the mount.

If you can part with that bag not being there the Iron Aces Mount for the Street Glide may fit your application as well and look very nicely. I love where mine is mounted. Ran the wire between the windscreen and fairing right behind the PowerVision module. I just used a round pencil type file to make a notch in the plastic to prevent the wire from chaffing with the vibration. Ill post 3 pics below for you..

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Nov 13, 2013 | 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MontyCop05

All the Garmins and PV as well as may other GPS units all use the AMPS mount platform.

I had to slightly modified bottom of my Nuvi to be one slot like top vs fork slot on bottom to fit tighter. Little Dremal action all set.

Nov 13, 2013 | 09:27 PM

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Talldog

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Originally Posted by Jersey_Marine

That looks great, but, I've got the T-Bags 3-pocket windshield bags and I already had to lose the left bag for the GPS mount.

I thought about buying the Kuryakyn Fuel Door mount...still might, not sure.

Nov 13, 2013 | 11:04 PM

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hd_rolling

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Originally Posted by Talldog

Gipper, why do you switch back and forth between tunes? I just want to "dial in" the tune as good as it can be, and then just leave it alone.

The two tunes is if you want one for performance and one for mileage. I did this with my PC5 w/AT for a couple years and it worked great having the power when around town but the better gas mileage when on a long trip.

When I later changed to a PV I had it mounted to the bars with the ram mount and cover that I got from Fuel Moto. I ran the wire under the fuel tank and had no issues.

Changed again to SERT because of the new engine and the Harley dealer only know how to dyno a SERT.

Now that I'm in NC if I can find someone who can dyno a PV I would love to put it back on just to keep the display mounted, guess I could now if I wanted to just monitor everything?

Nov 13, 2013 | 11:45 PM

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ke5rbd

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Originally Posted by hd_rolling

If you are happy with your SERT tune, which you said you were. Just hook up the PV and copy the current tune and start using PV. You won't loose a thing on the Dynotune. Just plug it in and start monitoring. That can be done on any bike that it will plug into.

Side note I want a 120R too.

Nov 14, 2013 | 06:41 AM

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murph

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Originally Posted by paulhog

Be careful where you run that wire under the tank. Mine was picking up interference from the ignition cables and the tuner would lock up after a few minutes.

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Originally Posted by Talldog

Now you've got me worried, ran the wire directly from the Data Link and then thru the plastic wire channel under the tank.

Not really sure how else I could've have done it though, the wire was just barely long enough as it was.

I needed a longer wire because i wanted to wire mine internally through my apes. I mounted mine on the right side of the handle bars with a custom mount I made. I did not want a big bulky thing so I used 4" aluminum bar stock cut at 4". I drilled two holes, used 3/4 spacers and longer bolts to mount it where the two bolts hold on the outer switch housing clamps. Now my power vision is mount inline with my bars and does not stick out like a sore thumb. I did not 665 the same way on the left side.

As for the wire, i used shielded and ran it from the connections under the tank into the fairing. This way no interference. Hope this helps. If you need anything, just send me a PM.

Murph