Rev 2 Underway

The parts have come in, family illness has prevented much progress.

• Rear-stand from "discountramps.com" came in, just barely fits to lift the rear of the bike by the swingarms. This will allow me to adjust the rear wheel, and or rev the bike now that I have taken off of the center stand.
• The 550 Lumen CREE X3 light has come in. It is truly awesome as far as brightness. Its designed for paintball and military applications (its a flashlight), I am ordering appropriate mounting rails and inticipating removing the current light. It should weigh much less. I want to also look at sharing the light with my bicycle.
• And batteries. I got 2 more batteries and installed them last night, including the wiring. However, attempts to use the DC-DC converter have failed thus far - I see voltage but I need to iron out what is ground for the converter and the bike at large, because using a single battery I was a able to cheat before. Its all fitting so far, I need to try placement/install of the new chargers once the DC-DC issues are ironed out.
  
• I burned a large part of today's possible progress time trying to get serial connectivity confirmed on the iPAQ, between my laptops and the iPAQ to test the controller-reader software. I am using a nasty USB to Serial converter that I don't trust, so will try to take it out of the equation. I tested on my linux Thinkpad and then old iBook with similar failed results, just no comm between the 2 parts with or without null modem. I have a bad feeling the guage will be a project in and of itself.