The Ebay'ed $35 H.I.D. Conversion kit came in from Hong Kong over the weekend, and its now part of the Tronbike 1.0.3 "light me up" release.
The ballast and controller were surprisingly big, but they worked under a quick "bench test" and were pretty straight forward to install. The "hi-beam" function in the bulb mechanical, but like the H4 bulb before it, is disabled so I only have lo-beam.
I yanked out 3 burned-out instrument lights that backlight the tach, temperature meter and speedometer - I'm only using the speedo and a tiny bit of its 220 MPH range. I'm pondering gutting it, replacing it all with the IPAQ, a bicycle computer and maybe a BBQ thermometer. The signal indicators and the green neutral light are the other used bits but any light/led might do if that part goes. Putting all the above under the stock instrument lenses might be cool, - time to look for a scrapped ZX-11 cluster!
At lunch I ran into Todd Kollin of Electric Motorsport. He vaguely remembered me and reminded me to install fuses and to keep the lighting legal. I promisedto stop by after the rains. Like the whole EV community, he was really only truly interested in the gauge software I am working on. There is something
there.
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