Really not sure yet - still developing and looking at options. My target is to have a better product than the American version for a similar price, say around £80. The USA version is £80 + shipping and tax so just over £120 landed, so a much better price really but I don't know if this is achievable yet. Full kit is Earth, live to starter solenoid and live to starter motor - 3 leads. I am looking at rail technology standard sealed cables for longevity. I may know more in a week.
I have the American kit. It consists of battery negative to earth, battery positive to solenoid, solenoid to starter motor. So 3 leads in all. I have teamed this up with a new Yuasa battery and Iridium NGK spark plugs. The bike now starts reliably every time. If it has not started for a few days, it might take half a second to a second to fire and may then need a second prod to get it to idle. If it has been started recently, it takes perhaps a tenth of a second to burst into life. I was very happy to pay £120.00 to get this reliability. I'd be even happier to pay £80.00 though
I have found a really good specialist cable system which is designed for high vibration and adverse element conditions used primarily in the rail industry - I am currently costing up a 999/749 system. Just have to wait and see if it comes in on my target price or somewhere near. Also there is the factor of if they will make up the small volume requirements that I will inevitably have to order! So, fingers crossed on this one.
I will be looking at all the popular models but need to get over the first hurdle with the 999 (as I have one to play with) 998 will be next (as I have one to play with) then I will be looking at others fairly quickly after that but if they come back too expensive I will hide :Bag: The cable quality / system does seem more advanced than the USA kits. Not sure why they spec 25mm sq cable though, I am looking at 16mm sq but a better system which seems more than adequate if the quality doesn't diminish in time. Maybe someone with electrickery experience can answer why they a use such thick cable when it's not necessary - maybe just a sales pitch. Perhaps @AirConTechnical might have an opinion :Wideyed::Nailbiting::Bag:
I've got one of these secondary earth leads from Exige for my 999S in place and after a week, I've decided I like it. The bike turns over quickern, with greater alacrity, compared to how it was with my existing secondary earth and is much, much better than with no secondary earth. The lead itself looks nice and business-like, and blingy in a low-key kind of way. The only issue I had was @Exige bullied me into fitting it exactly the way his instructions said to do it, instead of allowing me to be creative and do it my way. I suggest that you get one of these leads for your 999 but then block Exige so he can't nag you. TL/DR: Nice piece of kit, now where's my two live secondary leads, hmmm?
I think your creativity was good in a way, only your fairing wouldn't have fit back on if I hadn't have bullied you - but thanks for the positive feedback I will have my first production batch ready hopefully from the weekend. I have a listing on Ebay with big words saying out of stock (as I sold a couple of prototypes on there and had a few watchers) - but people keep knocking the listing off buy hitting buy it now :Rage: I have some positive news from the cable supplier for the posh 3 lead kit, no prices yet but they wish to work with me on this somewhat niche product for them - which is great news as they are usually into far larger contracts! They will develop for my exact requirement and make sure we have a world class product - even if in reality it is just some bits of wire, so, the quality will be there, fingers crossed still on the price point and initial turnaround!
Clearly the 25mm cross section has a lower resistance than 16mm. However the lengths are very small. I'd suggest most of the resistances in the path are introduced by the various junctions and connectors. If you mqnke an analogy to water with electrics you get.. Volts is the pressure of the water. Current is the volume of the water per second. Resistance is the restriction of the water flow, diameter or length of the hose. Watts is the gallons of water. This isn't perfect as the water can travel at different speeds, where electric can't (Don't get me started on skin effect).
I guess enough reduction in resistance is enough and considerably more than that has diminishing returns. No doubt overkill makes for effective marketing though. I know I'd want at least some extra cross section or less resistant material or less resistant joints than oem to make me feel good about my purchase. A big downside of the HiCap cables is their sheer bulk. Even though they are commendably flexible, the bulk does make them tricky to fit. If Exige can demonstrate at least similar resistance and flexibility to HiCap but without the bulk, IMHO that would make his a superior product.
here you go an easy way to remember watts and ohms law Wot Are Virgins Virgins Are Rare. in york.:smile:
The other brilliant feature of your triangles is of course that not only do they tell you that the number at each side of the base of the triangle is equal to the number at the top divided by the number at the other side of the base, it also tells you that the number at the top is equal to the two numbers at the base multiplied together. So if you have 6 at the top and 3 and 2 at the base, 2=6 over 2 , 3=6 over 2 and 6= 3x2 6 2 3 Therefore, if I equals V over R and R equals V over I, V must equal I times R and vice versa. Such a useful little tool and they never did teach us that at school - why ever not??
cant see the teacher parent association being to chuffed about the little rhyme to remember it with tho.
The PTA would love the colour code mnemonic for remembering the order of increasing resistance for wires: Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly. Always remember my Dad telling me that one when I was a nipperette.
As a life long Electronics engineer I can assure you this was not the original. Replace 0 with Black and..."virgins" and "goes without" and your are there. Back in the good old days when analogue was king we used to have to take great care on the tolerance and temperature coefficient bands... Then you've supper high values like 4000 G Ohms....try measuring that on a multimeter.
