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Teflon-Mike tl;dr
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Posted: 16:21 - 27 Mar 2020 Post subject: |
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You've got a Guzzi... and you thought it a good idea to add an accessory electric bit, to make the already idiosyncratic wop electrons even MORE confuzed?!?!?!?
I had no idea what an M tech unit was or might be good for.... so I googled it... it's so that you can rewire your bike, add and alarm, hazard warning lamps and talk to it via a smurf-fone!?!?!??!?!? My eyebrows are doing a wonderful job of keeping my bald-spot warm.......
Oh-Kay...
The suggested specs propose that the starter might be 'fused' via the wonder-wodget, up to 30A. If you have utilised this function me-thinks here may lay the problem.
A typical starter motorbike starter motor might just suck a couple of amps less than that, B~U~T the Guzzi isn't a motorbike... its a gun tractor! Or at least thats where its engine and transmission came from! And it utilised the car type 'Bendix' starter from a FIAT car, I think. Certainly the lead acid battery to power it!
OTMH the starter should be on an unfused hard wire straight from the battery, and so I SUSPECT there lies the error. Its sucking more amps through your widget than the widget's creators ever envissaged, and its having a brain fart trip out, and not tripping out instantly like a fuse or circuit breaker would, hence you get a few seconds of starter wirr.
Personally, with my experience of Italian elecrickery and Guzzi randomness in general.... I'd say just get rid! Rewire for simplicity and reliability on the KISS principle... its bad enough the tell-tale lamps telling tales depending on whatever was on TV last night, and your lucky enough to get indicators flashing, let alone when you want them to, let more alone one side together, so if you can get the basics to work, mostly when you want them to.. I'd call it a win and not push my luck! But, if gutisti... your probably mad enough to persevere, deturmined to have your gizmo..... but.... I'd lay odds on the fuseable rating being the niggle. ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Posted: 17:28 - 27 Mar 2020 Post subject: Re: Motogadget M Unit |
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M units
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