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  1. dingy
    I will defer to your medical condition on this one. I devised a simple, but very unscientific experiment to see what my own reaction was to oncoming daytime bright lights. I have projector bulbs on the bike that are somewhat more powerful than the standard bulb. I turned the bike on and with the high beams on, I knelt down to be on the same plane as the bike and looked directly into the beam from a distance of about 15 feet for about 1 second. I then looked at a distant object (across street), and I was immediately able to focus on the object. I repeated above, looking into the beam for about 5 seconds. When I looked away again, I had no problem focusing on objects. I did however, from second try, when I closed my eyes, have a light image sensation for about 30 seconds. From my own experience, I feel comfortable operating my bike with the high beams on during the daytime. Is it distracting ( To cause to turn away from the original focus of attention or interest; divert.), I certainly hope so. I want to distract someone from that cell phone, I want to distract someone from getting that sandwich out of the fast food bag. I want to distract someone from lighting that cigarette. I do not however, as been referenced in previous posts, want to blind someone. This can be done by improper use of high beams at night. The original intent of this thread was in reference to modulators. As previously posted, modulators are only legally permitted to dim the head light, not intensify it. Its intent seems to have one purpose. That is to draw other motorists attention to the head light. If they do this then the device has succeeded at its purpose. I have a gut feeling that more bikers are saved by drawing other motorist attention to the bike, than are those injured by the situation that Bongobobby referred to in his post about a biker being hit because a motorist mistook his modulator for a turn signal, if that was indeed the case. As I stated in the second post, modulators could be annoying to uneducated motorists. Maybe those of us that believe in the effectiveness of this device, should come up with a way to help educate them, as well as our own members. This is a tool that can save lives, if it is understood and properly used. Gary
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    The implication from your first line as it relates to the legal use of headlight modulators is ridiculous & not very well thought out. Statement in your third paragraph is interesting. What is obvious? Irrational, yup, I agree with you there. The headlight modulator does not increase the brilliance of the high beam head light at all. It dims it. A large number of motorcyclist run in the daytime with the high beam illuminated, for the reason that it is much more noticeable than a low beam. Agreeably, the high beam, by its very nature, is brighter than the low beam, but in the day time, it does not cause blindness, or cause the pupil in the eye to contract to the point of not being able to have functioning sight. This does occur at night time with the improper use of high beams. But the statement that headlight modulators blind the sight of oncoming drivers in the daytime is unsubstantiated. The fact that federal law permits them within specific operating ranges, and only on motorcycles, would seem to suggest that there is some data that points to there effectiveness. As I stated in the second post of this thread, the use of modulators can be misinterpreted by an uneducated motorist. I do not know of any emergency vehicles that only use flashing headlights as their warning system. Gary
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    It is a 5.3 gallon tank on 1st gens. Gauge reading is not linear. It takes a while to drop the first bar, and the last bar goes fairly quick. Through the mid range of gauge, there is more mileage between bars. Dingy
  4. dingy
    Below is a link to a web page citing the legality of these in all 50 states. http://www.webbikeworld.com/Motorcycle-technical-articles/Modulator-regs.htm The purpose of the modulator is to attract other drivers attention. Your point is well taken about it possibly been annoying though to uneducated motorists. Gary
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    The extended use of brakes will help draw down the voltage on the battery on MKII bikes. This is due to the electric anti dive units. They draw quite a bit of current. The anti dive valves are actuated whenever the front or rear brake is engaged. This would happen when sitting in traffic for periods of time. When I rebuilt my bike this winter, I made a modification to the wiring harness to disable the anti dive units when the rear brake is used. I have de-linked brakes now, so the rear brake does not need to engage anti dives. When I am stopped in traffic, I can use just the rear brake to maintain bike at stopped position. Not an easy modification though, it required opening up the wiring harness casing to insert a diode at the required point. Gary
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    I saw the same voltage swing as you did with the stock sensor, only about 1/2 volt. How much of a voltage swing are you getting with the GM map sensor? The Map unit would be just as good to use, only minor advantage to stock sensor is it has a mount already on bike. What Map sensor are you using? P/N ? Car application info? The TPS is what ingitech shows in their info, but a TPS does not take into account the loading on the engine like the Map sensor would. Gary
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    I made this map trying to follow the Vmax curve. I have the initial timing set at 5@ and advancing to 43@. Tried to follow RPM curve in Vmax manual. I have a Throttle Position Sensor that I was going to adapt to this unit, but may not. I did some testing with the stock pressure boost on the Venture. It is outputting 12v when disconnected from the wiring harness. I did not check output when hooked up. I suspect it will be in the 2-4vdc range when attached to a load. I am uncomfortable about hooking stock boost unit to the Ingitech module due to this higher unloaded voltage reading. I did not get any extra wiring harness connectors for the ingitech module like you did. Crimson Knight said he did not receive any. I have been unable to locate any connectors that size around here. Ingitech has them for sale on their site, so I will get some from them. I need the extra connectors in order to connect a TPS or a auto type BAR sensor. Until I get some, I will be using the 2d curve. Gary
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    I did download your 'Venture 9' curve. Just looked at it again. But the curve that is running in my bike is really not even close to that one. If anything, it is closer to one Squeeze sent me. I will email it to you if you want to look at it. The first two screens match your, but I am not sure about a couple of settings there. When I gently roll the throttle up, all four cylinders do not advance at same point. Two of them lag a degree by some RPM's. I think this is due to the settings on the 'Bike' page,'Channel 1 - Channel 4' Gary
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    I had the bike dynoed today with the ignitech unit that I got from Crimson Knight, horsepower only unfortunately. Only cost $20 though. Did not have near the horsepower I was expecting from it. 96.12 with the stock TCI and 95.80 with the ignitech unit. But the results show that the stock TCI is very close in performance to the ignitech unit. Ignitech was run with a 2D curve. I do not have a boost sensor or TPS wired in yet. The two curves are shown on the first picture. The blue curve is the stock TCI, red curve is the ignitech unit. For some reason the stock TCI broke up a little at higher RPM's, something I have not noticed on the road. I may have not had the plugs in tight when I swapped modules. Stock TCI was 84-89 version. HP readings were taken in 4th gear. Very hot & humid day, which didn't help at all. Other four shots are screen shots of parameter settings in ignitech software. Gary http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/1300horsepower_ignitechstockTCI-s.jpg http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/screen1.jpg http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/screen2.jpg http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/screen3.jpg http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/screen3a.jpg
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    Also controls fuel pump If bike is running, #2 coil at least getting input signal Gary
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    It is on its way to you. USPS tracking # 9101785091401605745058 I also found the drive plate for the gear head. It goes behind the seal in the front wheel. Sent it in case yours got messed up. Gary
  12. dingy
    Fixed It. Gary
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    Standard plug is DPR8EA-9/NGK If you don't mind spending about $6.50 a plug, have them cross that number to an Iridium plug. Better quality in my opinion and will last much longer. Still an NGK plug. Gary
  14. dingy
    Which picture below does your dash look like. You said in first post you had a Royale, which I thought had the gear indicator. If it is like the first picture, it only has a neutral indicator. If it is like the second picture, the gear indicator should be in lower left corner of the cmu display. If does not have a gear indicator, starts in neutral, and takes off in second, it is unlikely that the problem is in neutral circuit. If it does have a gear indicator, possibly there is a problem with the gear indicator wiring. The symptoms you first described, does the bike lurch when you put it in 1st, or suddenly die? Reason for asking this is to determine if clutch dragging is killing engine, though I would think that would be more likely in second. Just trying to clarify symptoms. Gary
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    Don't take this as an insult to your mechanical abilities. Did you by any chance put a pad in backwards? Gary
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    Are you saying that it stalled when going into 1st, but not when going into 2nd? Reason I am asking is the neutral circuit should react the same when going into 1st or 2nd. Does the shift light properly indicate each gear as you shift through gears. Gary
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    Does anyone know the procedure to split upper & lower fork tubes on a 2008 XL 1200 Custom? My son has one and he wants to powder coat lower fork tubes. A clip from service manual would be very helpful. Gary http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/PICT2684s.jpg
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    George, Where is it that shows the 1 1/8 setting for the needle jets ? Most of what I recall seeing on here is 2 turns. Just asking, not arguing. Gary
  19. dingy
    Below is a link to a more complete manual than what is posted above. The manual above is missing about 10 pages at various points throughout it. Snaggletooth scanned the missing pages and I inserted them. This manual covers 1983-1985 bikes. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43688 Gary
  20. dingy
    Oh My God !! Chesty Puller (Lt. Gen. Marine Corps, Most decorated Marine in their history) is probably spinning in his grave. Hearing squids using the hallowed term Semper Fi. Have you no dignity. Political my rump, this is getting personal. Gary
  21. dingy
    Can I have your Venture, since you will probably be upgrading to a Gold Wing now? Gary
  22. dingy
    I got mine from an ebay seller located in Canada. He has a listing up now, he will do a 4 line set for about $85.00 including shipping. You have to know what you want in the way of lengths and end fittings. No one line over 71". He also has single, double & triple sets on sale. Ebay seller is linespro 4 line set listing # is 270597840446 I was happy with the quality of the set I got from him. Gary
  23. dingy
    I found it. Shipping would be $5.00 priority Gary
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    There is 3 1/2 pages of new members in the New Member forum. Gary
  25. dingy
    It's on its way. PM sent It is off of an 88 bike, wasn't from the 83 like I thought. Gary
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