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OK, after listening to stories about boosting motorcycles from four-wheeled vehicles (and scoffing at those stories) I can validate that bad things can indeed happen!
Probably one of the ONLY things that DID work on the Wing salvaged from the dump were the gauges. After boosting the bike for a couple of weeks I noticed that my two 7 volt gauges were pegged off the scales. :shock:
So, I looked around only to discover that the little voltage reducer cost a mint- $87.00 Canadian. After looking around on internet I found the follwoing site:
http://members.cox.net/dfarrell4/7vreg.html
I bought the parts and my version looks like the attached image. One thing about the unit though is that it is really finiky to adjust- but it does work fine! Also, the heat sink I scavenged fron a computer power supply is over-kill (I think).
I still must seal the case (hot-glue-gun is all it gets) and mount it under the cluster.
OK, after listening to stories about boosting motorcycles from four-wheeled vehicles (and scoffing at those stories) I can validate that bad things can indeed happen!
Probably one of the ONLY things that DID work on the Wing salvaged from the dump were the gauges. After boosting the bike for a couple of weeks I noticed that my two 7 volt gauges were pegged off the scales. :shock:
So, I looked around only to discover that the little voltage reducer cost a mint- $87.00 Canadian. After looking around on internet I found the follwoing site:
http://members.cox.net/dfarrell4/7vreg.html
I bought the parts and my version looks like the attached image. One thing about the unit though is that it is really finiky to adjust- but it does work fine! Also, the heat sink I scavenged fron a computer power supply is over-kill (I think).
I still must seal the case (hot-glue-gun is all it gets) and mount it under the cluster.
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