Pictures or you're just making this up to bring tears to our eyes...
And just so you know, I nearly came home from the post office with a dog. Yep, a long haired German Shepherd named Zeus was in the back of an SUV but looking for a new home as his human is moving from a house to an apartment. I said hello to the dog and his human let him out of the vehicle and Zeus curled up between my knees and leaned up against me (I was kneeling to say hello). It took everything I had to refuse the dog but really only after I was convinced that his human would not put him down nor take him to a shelter that euthanizes dogs. A beautiful, intelligent, healthy dog about seven years old.... it took all my willpower to let him go. So you almost cost me unknown years of happy dog ownership :-) Not quite ready after losing my last pup last spring but if ever I was tempted, that dog was it.... Sorry, waxing philosophical but it really was a special dog I think.
Brian
You should have taken the dog, you know you should. Did you get the guys number???
I fitted the gismo in 30 seconds flat, just waiting for the fuel to run out now.
Well now............ I put Constance in the garage with the range on 12 miles. I rolled it out two days later and it appears the angels have had their share and it had gone down to nine. Even at nine miles it should've been enough to get me to the start of todays run or at least to a filling station. Doh!! I started out and the range went up to fifteen and then quickly down to seven miles. I had actually done about four miles in total.
Then Constance started coughing and spluttering, I managed to nurse it a further mile and the range then showed five miles and the motor cut out..... Luckily this was only 50 yards or so from the filling station (not the one I intended mind you) and I was able to coast into the pump.
I managed to squeeze in 22.33 litres or 5.898 US Gal or 4.911 Imp Gal. This is probably about right since the capacity is 22 litres. I will try again to get it to zero or better but I think in normal times I will make ten miles my absolute minimum
Verdict....... Great job
Finally got around to getting my inspection and plates back up to spec, so I was able to test out the eliminator I got and installed a while back. Got to where low-fuel light should have come on, and it just kept trucking. It got down to 17 miles left, and given the traffic situation I pulled in and put... 5.02 gallons in. Definitely something wonky with the calculations since I had been dealing with stop and go traffic for a good chunk of the morning. I'll keep an eye on it as I plow through this tank, and see where it ends up next go round. I might even fill up one of the MSR fuel bottles I brought along on my Iron Butt ride just to see how far she'll go.
I ordered one of these up today. Thanks Brian.
Did you ever finish the cruise control project?
Well now............ I put Constance in the garage with the range on 12 miles. I rolled it out two days later and it appears the angels have had their share and it had gone down to nine. Even at nine miles it should've been enough to get me to the start of todays run or at least to a filling station. Doh!! I started out and the range went up to fifteen and then quickly down to seven miles. I had actually done about four miles in total.
Then Constance started coughing and spluttering, I managed to nurse it a further mile and the range then showed five miles and the motor cut out..... Luckily this was only 50 yards or so from the filling station (not the one I intended mind you) and I was able to coast into the pump.
I managed to squeeze in 22.33 litres or 5.898 US Gal or 4.911 Imp Gal. This is probably about right since the capacity is 22 litres. I will try again to get it to zero or better but I think in normal times I will make ten miles my absolute minimum
Verdict....... Great job
FYI mine ran out and was sitting ~20 miles on the DTE display.
FYI mine ran out and was sitting ~20 miles on the DTE display.
I'm sure Brian has a disclaimer in one or two of these pages.
On another topic, I would like to do something about the lack of self- cancelling turn signals though. Same problem of price but not as bad of course. And it would fit a lot more bikes without a re- design for each one. But it would not be true self- cancelling turn signals for a number of reasons but a warning that the directionals had been on too long for the conditions rather than just time (like it would know you were sitting at a stop light, had not yet made a turn, etc.).
Brian
I was originally planning on using a separate, remote warning in the form of a simple red LED that affixed somewhere on the dash. That way the bike would ignore the warning but the discreet LED would light when the 'low fuel' level was reached. The two basic problems with that method were cost and the fact that the remote LED would need to be wired onto the bike and a lot of people either cannot or do not want to do any dissemble, wire routing, possible drilling of holes, etc. This is the truly 'plug 'n play' version that can be added to the bike easily.
Hi Brian,
Is it possible to tap into your device for a signal that could then be used to power a led from a separate source? I don't mind some drilling and running wires.
Thanks
Ah, is that to do with the CANBUS?
I guess I don't need a light to tell me I'm running low ...