Coil mod

[IanDMacDonald]

Don't get me wrong James, Gabe's attitude is amazing with his engineer mind. I know there are some really brilliant minds on this site that can do extraordinary things with their hands, ] I also believe based on the lack of certain mods mentioned on this site (such as coil relay mod), that a good majority of owners already knew of the mod based-off experience in the past, or whatever. One thing I've noticed on this site over the GS site is that the XS owners seem to already have a wide berth of knowledge in the electro-mechanical area prior to these bikes. The alternative idea is that they've either owned these bikes for quite awhile, or had other bikes prior to their XS to accumulate the knowledge they have. Kudos to Gabe and other engineers on here for applying their in-depth understanding of electrical formulas that I have long-forgotten about, nor will probably ever use again. I can guarantee my knowledge of sizing an industrial transformer will never come in handy on this site, lol. Another thing, tgus site is not an avenue to be a show-off or smarty pants. We all know what we know in life, let's be humble about the knowledge and find the most direct way of sharing the info.

Again, for the sake of this thread, I'll post two links. One is the main page of useful info sharing similar stuff as our bikes, the second link pertains to a coil relay mod on GS bikes.

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/bikecliff/
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...relay_mod.html
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/...l_RelayMod.pdf

[b.walker5]

we've had morons killed trying to steal copper out of live installations.

Yep, have had that here too Steve. A few months ago I installed a 120m run of 95mm2 (4/0 AWG) 3 phase underground mains to a new installation. Got it run, and terminated into the building, and into, but not terminated, in the street toby. Ran out of time to get the trench filled in before dark, so fenced it off and left site. Next day I returned and the cable was gone. Hacksawed off at the building, and pulled out of the toby.

Another time I ran a kilometre of 35mm2 single stand overhead lines to a rural property. Got it connected and livened, but next day it was gone. The police found a hacksaw, and a pair of pliers with a great chunk blown out of them, about 100m up the road. Funny thing was that the pole fuse wasnt blown....

Copper prices arent really that expensive here, I can buy 2.5mm2 twin and earth (most common size for house wiring) for $1.26 a metre, but theres a fair market for scrap. I took my scrap bins to a dealer just a couple of days ago. Most of it was cleaned, as in insulation stripped, and there was around 50kg. Got me close to 300 bux to add too the Christmas entertainment fund..