Vapour trail tech power?

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Wilksiee

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just bought a vapour trail tech stealth i think...i was just wondering what can i take power from to the speedo?

i was thinking use the horns wires but then the speedo would only work when you push the horn right? ive got a 2004 gas gas ec 250

some pointers in the right direction would really be appreciated!
thanks
 
Me

I was gonna hook mine up as well to a power source but never bothered. It's been on my bike for 9 months or so and the internal batteries are still going strong.

BTW, in case you were unaware the hour meter works off of wheel movement time, not a engine created charge
 
I tapped my Vector into the headlight power (before the switch). This is definitely worth doing.
 
husley said:
I was gonna hook mine up as well to a power source but never bothered. It's been on my bike for 9 months or so and the internal batteries are still going strong.

BTW, in case you were unaware the hour meter works off of wheel movement time, not a engine created charge
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I run mine off the battery too! I think I changed it once early in the piece and that was that.

Not sure I agree entirely with your hour meter findings. There are two clocks. One that starts with wheel movement, another that reads ART (Acummulated Run Time). I had to run the wires from the unit to the spark plug cable to enable the tacho, which is when the ART then started increased. First 25 engine hours (estimated) it did not increase at all.
 
Hmmm

Jakobi said:
I run mine off the battery too! I think I changed it once early in the piece and that was that.

Not sure I agree entirely with your hour meter findings. There are two clocks. One that starts with wheel movement, another that reads ART (Acummulated Run Time). I had to run the wires from the unit to the spark plug cable to enable the tacho, which is when the ART then started increased. First 25 engine hours (estimated) it did not increase at all.
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Weird, both my clocks are recording cumulative time but the unit is only hooked up to the speedo pick up. I have a Vector, maybe it is differnt
 
Sp33d0

just gunna run it off the battery for now i think...

although, coming form my stator up to my headlight is 2 wires, a yellow and a white wire...

could i connect the red(possitive) wire from the speedo to the yellow wire and the black wire from the speedo to the white wire from the stator?

Also setting up the wheel size, i think i set mine to 8415 or something, i know everyones is different but out of curiosity, what did you set your wheel size too?

Thanks:eek:
 
What bike are you running it off? Mine has the 'power cable' wired, but being a kick only it only runs off power when the bike is running. I can take some photos if you like. Can't remember what I set the wheel at. I did measure it when I started and have run the same wheels since.
 
My headlight wires on my bike are purple so I'm not sure that our wiring is the same.

Wheel size is a function of the tire that you run. You should measure it yourself. I don't recall what I am using sitting here at work.
 
TO FIND YOUR WHEEL DIAMETER MARK THE TYRE AND THEN THE FLOOR WITH CHALK ,PUSH THE BIKE ALONG SO THE WHEEL DOES ONE REVOLUTION AND MARK THE FLOOR AGAIN .MEASURE BETWEEN THE TWO CHALK MARKS ON THE FLOOR IN mm.THAT WILL BE THE NUMBER YOU PUT INTO YOUR STEALTH UNIT.iTS ABOUT 2015 from memory.
As far as connecting the power use the yellow wire from the headlight and the black (Earth).Its the regulated 12v from the stator.I soldered a Diode in series on the yellow as a simple half wave rectifier to supply a DC supply.Prior to that the random AC would cause the thing to reset all the time.The back light will also work as well as the Accumulated ride time (ART).The little 3v internal battery is still imperative for proper operation. By the way ,Im talking about a stealth speedo on a 09 ec 300.

sorry about the upper case...fucking caps lock lol
 
Hi gents just fitted my vapor to day on my ec300 03 every thing is working but the rev counter is going mental, ive run the red to the yellow live for the lights before the switches and the earth black to the black earth for the lights, for the moment i have unplugged it and its working as it should.
i also would like to no some info on my bike
rev limit
running temp
boil over point and any thing else i need as i just put random numbers in for now.
soz i did put this in a thread but done it from my phone in a rush, oh and one final thing what hose did you cut for the temp gauge

thanks grant
 
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