Speedo
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Hi, got my mini turbo MOTed now, cooling is being abit of a problem but i'll get a new rad and see how i go. any way. speedo, the cable is broken and its a center one, the cars on 13" wheels so even if i fixed it i wouldn't read right, i have seen some Kit cars that have used push bike computers for a speedo does this work?? and which ones read up to a decent speed??? thanks
Alex.

yeah quite a few people use them, mines fine and will read up to 185mph, just wish the car would do half that.

check the forsale section, I belive feebleuk is selling one

Team Racing

although ive never seen a wireless one with a range over a metre...... thats without any interference you'll get from the electrics of the car....

yea good point, and there are more battaries ect

Team Racing

How can a wireless one possibly transmit from the sensor {on the driveshaft etc} to the actual speedo which is in the car ?
Surely you need one which is connected by a wire ?
The speedo on my bike only has about a 1m range and is directly in line with the sensor, i don't think this signal would pass through the bulkhead.



The batteries seem to run out every few months in the transmitter/sensor as the distance from the bottom of the forks to the handlebars is quite far. I can't see this being able to work on a car ?
I await being proved wrong .... lol

Phil.

WWW.TURBO-MINI.COM

the wired ones are on sale in tesco at the moment for £8, bargain! for that money it's got to be worth taking it apart and trying to squeeze an LED in there to make it back lit

Team Racing

get there for less than that from ebay, and at halfords at one point

but you don't get club card points on ebay!

Team Racing

~I've seen it done on a westfield... but I didnt look at the type he was using!!

I now want to run one myself LOL

alex

AlexF

http://www.cateye.com/uk/products/viewProd...Id=6&subCatId=0

found this smart little gadget, it does everything and even HAS A BACKLIGHT!!

its cable aswell so no worries about distance signal can travel, not sure how long the cable is tho.

it tells u altitude/temp etc and can even be linked into a heart rate moniter if u wanna see how hard ur working!

not cheap tho, about £45 i think....

how do they work? I dont understand how they are calibrated / accurate!

/dunce

you measure the circumference of your wheel (via adding a chalk mark and rolling it till the chalk mark comes round again, then measure the distance on the ground its travelled.)

add that in the unit and it then knows how far it travels with each pass of the magnet and works it out from there.

get it?

Ah! that makes sense. cheers

i got a cheep one from halfords but the problem is u can't set the rolling D its all pre set, also it needs the magnet to be within 4mm of the sensore, and i couldn't work out how to mount it.

i'll try and get some pics of mine for you dude, its mounted it on the brake drum, and you can get it within 4mm easily.

might be better to take that one back and get one that you can manually enter the circumference into, usually the gap is 10mm aswell which makes life easier.

do u know the model number of the one you got? ooooooofff couse on the drum.... i was fixed in to the idea it needed to be on the wheel. a pic would help me out tons.

I found that if you ditch the magnet that comes with it and use a stronger one (I got one out of an old broken hard disc ) you can allow a bigger distance between the magnet and the sensor. Straight forward enough to rig up a LED to shine on it in the dark.

My model choice was any one that didn't say 'Cycle master' or something on the front :)