They had a twenty buck sale on, so bought one for my L4, and spent the weekend just gone installing. Before I started, I made sure I thoroughly read the minimal) instructions, forum posts and Youtube videos. Still was a steep learning journey, and didn't quite get there. Couldn't get the initialisation flashing to work when piggybacking power from the USB power outlet wire, had to wire it back to my relay array by the batter, and ground to the frame, then got the flashing to confirm there was power and half the wiring in place (from the unit to the indicators). After much frigging around, wired up the connectors to take power from the indicator switch on the handlebars to the unit. Then was time to take the indicator switch apart and insert the little rubber pads to make the indicator lever auto return (and so not have to be pushed in to release). First time had gone in there, and sadly little bits went everywhere. Did my best to find them, but wasn't sure what was looking for (d'oh!!), so inserted the rubber pads underneath the little black block that the lever sits in and put it back togethere. Could see something was missing as the lever moved around a lot. Had no idea what to do, but five minutes later, spotted by chance the tiny missing part on the workshop floor (!!). Put it in and back on the bars, on with ignition and.....nothing. Rattled wires around a bit but still nothing. Backtracked to check all the wiring, and all as should be as far as I could see, and still nothing.
Was getting too stressed by then and needed a going bike, so made the executive decision to remove it and go back to standard. Frig around, frig around, frig around, and finally out of the workshop mid-afternoon Sunday - most of one weekend I'll never get back.....
I left the rubber pads in for the moment, which means have to keep thumb pressing the lever left or right to keep indicators on, but figure might be ok - will certainly make sure don't forget to leave them on. And the effort needed to push the lever to turn off the right hand indicator was a PITA so glad to be shot of that too.
I still have the unit, and maybe will try again another time, but only once some other kind and more successful L4 soul posts detailed instal instructions.
I did learn a lot about my wiring and switch operation, so sort of glad of that. But was still a major P-I-T-A. Others??
Was getting too stressed by then and needed a going bike, so made the executive decision to remove it and go back to standard. Frig around, frig around, frig around, and finally out of the workshop mid-afternoon Sunday - most of one weekend I'll never get back.....
I left the rubber pads in for the moment, which means have to keep thumb pressing the lever left or right to keep indicators on, but figure might be ok - will certainly make sure don't forget to leave them on. And the effort needed to push the lever to turn off the right hand indicator was a PITA so glad to be shot of that too.
I still have the unit, and maybe will try again another time, but only once some other kind and more successful L4 soul posts detailed instal instructions.
I did learn a lot about my wiring and switch operation, so sort of glad of that. But was still a major P-I-T-A. Others??
