Eliminating speedo and tach

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Are there any recommendations for plugging the drives when eliminating the cable driven gauges? I was thinking that I would find some old cables and reuse their caps with a slug inserted to plug the holes. No sense in driving those extra gears though.....
 
You're on the money - I just made a small alu plug that went into a tach cable hex nut with a dab of silicone for the SF tacho drive output. I could cut the entire work drive end of the 5C cam and fit a RH cam end to the LH end - but that would be irreversible wilful destruction!
 
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we have CNC machined blanking covers in stock to close off the tacho drive on both the 750 and triple engines
 
What are you using to eliminate the cable drives - do you have a link?
I have been vaguely thinking about this - should be possible with a stepper motor/arduino but is there a commercially available option?
Thnx
 
Speedhut.com

Design your own gauge, can have a single say 4" gauge with GPS Speedo and the Tacho face embedded inside the same face
Can add various light functions like left/right indicator lights, high beam etc
Trick kit

Speedhut gauge 2
 
If you want to retain your rivets 'budget' GPS speedos could easily used via a cut-and-shut into an ND body for anyone willing to put in the hours. My rivets have all been recycled into beer bottle tops - I used the GPS unit as it came, which cost about AUD$100 - only goes up to 200kph, so a little underpowered for the SFQ ;) - but I can live with that.

Analogue face electronic tacho from a suitable Jap bike can receive the same treatment. Mine is from an '89-91 ZXR250RR Kwaka - also bought cheap. You need something like an Ignitech ignition system to feed the signal. The TCIP4 has a 'number or pulses' setting plus a correction factor menu. It works a treat.

The hardest part would probably be adapting the ND Laverda face to the top of the units, but where there's a will, there's usually a way.
 
I think the odometer would be the challenge! There should be plenty of room inside the units for a stepper motor and simple electronics. I have form - years ago I bult a speedometer/tachometer displaying on my mobile phone for my SF1. Used the output from the Saches ignition and a simple hall effect/magnet for the speed. The killer for that was developing in Java for the android - I am much better at C for arduinos.

Found some really bad video of the project.

 
Lots of phone options with this ignition and data logging system as adapting a dash display is probably easy. Based in Sydney as well. One day some bright computer person might develop a site that doesn't involve that cunt of a place, FACEBOOK I MEAN. Nothing ever links, posting involves displays through a tiny slot for one line of writing at a time, you see something you like and 5 minutes later it disappears, you constantly get sent unrelated crap on every involvement, its about as user-unfriendly as you can get. In case you haven't noticed I fucken hate any interacting WITH FACEBOOK but it always seems to occur. It's just complete crap.

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years ago we converted a ND Speedo to a stepper motor control, worked out very well
not heard from the owner for 4 years or so but last time I spoke with him he said it was still going well
 
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