MotoGadget M-Unit Blue light config

[tiwang]

hi out there
The M-Unit has some usefully - but also annoying - ways of configuration the light - low beam - high beam - driving light etc
I am a bit in doubt about what fits best. I am using the original "suzuki" buttoms so this switch on and off of the light is a bit different of how it is intended - by MotoGadget. I think it is annoying that i cannot switch-off the light when i "switch it off" - or maybe is it just me being confused about that i cannot switch off the light.
Which options for the light has been used to get a satisfying result ?

 

[Dellortoman]

If you want to be able to switch the headlight off, you can get around the M-Unit's refusal to let you do that with some additional wiring and a couple of relays (or one DPDT relay). I designed a wiring diagram for another forum member a few years ago that solved the same issue on his 180° triple. I may have put it in the Library section. Yes, here it is: https://laverdaforum.com/resources/wiring-diagram-with-motogadget-m-unit.112/

 

[tiwang]

Hi again
Thanks for sharing - do you know which config he used for the M-Unit ? I have the version with BT so the configuration is a bit simpler but as far as i know the menu's are the same

 

[Dellortoman]

Hi tiwang. I only designed the wiring system. I didn't do the installation because the bike was on the other side of the world, about as far away from me as you can get without leaving the planet. So I didn't get into any of the M-Unit configuration stuff. I left that to the bike's owner. The documentation he sent me for the M-Unit was Version 1.8 if that's any help.

 

[tiwang]

Hi tiwang. I only designed the wiring system. I didn't do the installation because the bike was on the other side of the world, about as far away from me as you can get without leaving the planet. So I didn't get into any of the M-Unit configuration stuff. I left that to the bike's owner. The documentation he sent me for the M-Unit was Version 1.8 if that's any help.

ahhh it is Grant from Scotland? Grant Duguid if I spell the name correct?

 

[Laverda1000.de]

I am going to fit an M-Unit this winter. Right now I use a special headlight relay that has the option to leave the light off until you activate it it with a button push. But then you have to remember to turn the light on before you go off... They also have other trick stuff - somethimg similar to the M-Box that is split in to smaller boxes that are just connected with a tiny BUS wire. So you have a tiny box sitting in the front of the bike and a tiny one at the back, making for even more minimal wiring. I thinks Paul would be especially into this.

Headlight Relay Digital Harness

 

[breganzane]

There are other pdms than motogadget, some allow full configuration of all the io so you can make it do what you want. M-unit seems only to work well when used in the exact way mg intended (choppers with their push button switches).

 

[Dellortoman]

ahhh it is Grant from Scotland? Grant Duguid if I spell the name correct?

Yes. It's Grant's bike I did the M-Unit wiring diagram for. I'm not sure the wiring system that we ended up with made life any easier for him than it would have been without the M-Unit. But he seemed to have his heart set on using the unit. He wasn't confident with wiring so I think he was sold on the idea that the unit would make everything simple, and he'd already bought the unit before properly considering the pros and cons. So I got the feeling that was committed to using it. That's when he approached me for help. I did what was necessary to make it work the way he wanted.

There are other pdms than motogadget, some allow full configuration of all the io so you can make it do what you want. M-unit seems only to work well when used in the exact way mg intended (choppers with their push button switches).

I agree. I'm not convinced the M-Unit is the best way to go for the average classic bike that has a relatively simple electrical system with conventional handlebar switches. Especially if you end up having to add relays to get around the default settings of the M-Unit. You end up making the wiring more complicated to accommodate the M-Unit.