My Rostra cruise control stopped working three weeks ago after Jim Moore and I had ridden the Black Hills together. When we split at Custer so could go back to Whitney and I could get back to Newcastle, I turned it on and the light flickered when I pushed "Set" and the cruise never kicked in.
I used my Throttlemiester on the way home from Newcastle and then during the Rally and the trip up and back. It works reasonably well, but it's easy to get going way too fast downhill and needs a good bit of attention.
Tonight, my old COG buddy, Mike Reid and I were able to coordinate our schedule and get together. On my way over, I saw Jeff Smith, a member of the Forum, on his slow red 2010 heading east for home in Greeley.
Mike and I got the left fairing pocket off the bike and he started checking each wire from the CC unit. We had a good ground, but the power line only showed 8.6-8.9V, while my Kisan Chargeguard was showing 12.9V. We putzed around and encountered some bafflement because most of the time, we were getting power to the control panel, but occasionally, we weren't. We traced the power line back to my Fuzeblock and it turned out that the Fuzeblock circuit I had the CC wired to only had 8.3-8.6V. I still had an open circuit in the Fuzeblock, so we moved the CC power to that circuit. Then Mike found a loose connection up in the wires going to the CC master unit. He redid that connection and the CC worked just like it has ever since he installed it.
I'm glad to have it back because Mike, a friend of his, and I are riding to Montrose this weekend and then we're going to play in the western mountains.
I used my Throttlemiester on the way home from Newcastle and then during the Rally and the trip up and back. It works reasonably well, but it's easy to get going way too fast downhill and needs a good bit of attention.
Tonight, my old COG buddy, Mike Reid and I were able to coordinate our schedule and get together. On my way over, I saw Jeff Smith, a member of the Forum, on his slow red 2010 heading east for home in Greeley.
Mike and I got the left fairing pocket off the bike and he started checking each wire from the CC unit. We had a good ground, but the power line only showed 8.6-8.9V, while my Kisan Chargeguard was showing 12.9V. We putzed around and encountered some bafflement because most of the time, we were getting power to the control panel, but occasionally, we weren't. We traced the power line back to my Fuzeblock and it turned out that the Fuzeblock circuit I had the CC wired to only had 8.3-8.6V. I still had an open circuit in the Fuzeblock, so we moved the CC power to that circuit. Then Mike found a loose connection up in the wires going to the CC master unit. He redid that connection and the CC worked just like it has ever since he installed it.
I'm glad to have it back because Mike, a friend of his, and I are riding to Montrose this weekend and then we're going to play in the western mountains.
