ST1300 - Gear Position Indicator (Do It Yourself)

[Trosty]

On a similar vein, is there room under that right side blank sheet to put a voltage monitor LED so that it seems part of OEM installation. I mean by drilling a small hole and poking it through?

I was particularly thinking for this voltage regulator:

1050 Voltage Monitor.jpg

http://signaldynamics.com/index.php/...id=44&vmcchk=1

[BradnChristine]

On a similar vein, is there room under that right side blank sheet to put a voltage monitor LED so that it seems part of OEM installation. I mean by drilling a small hole and poking it through?

I was particularly thinking for this voltage regulator:

1050 Voltage Monitor.jpg

http://signaldynamics.com/index.php/...id=44&vmcchk=1

That looks like a great idea. I am sure you could easily find a place to mount that in the black ST1300 plate. Maybe my next project. Looks like the same size LED and mounting as in the ACL head's up turn signal indicators. At $30, it is cheaper and much, much smaller than the Kuryakyn voltage thing that I have on the Magna. I think I "NEED" it...LOL.

[BradnChristine]

If you look at my pictures in post #260 of this thread, you can see that I mounted the .39" LED essentially where the ABS light would be, if I had ABS. If you look at the white piece in conjunction with the black plate, you can see that you could mount this LED above the ST1300 OR in the middle of the cluster of the existing "idiot lights", or probably in a couple other places. The nice thing is that even tho you are altering that white plastic piece, which is part of the circuit board part and costs over $60, the black plate will cover it all up. The replacement black plates are less than $4. So if I ever sold the bike (to get a newer one, of course), I could remove the GPI and this voltage indicator and turn it back to a completely stock appearance for $4. You can't see the changes to the white plastic piece with the cover in place.

[BradnChristine]

Here's another choice... http://www.ebay.com/itm/12v-LED-Batt...308f39a72#shId

[BradnChristine]

Here's another choice... http://www.ebay.com/itm/12v-LED-Batt...308f39a72#shId

I went this route after he emailed me a picture of the 5mm unit. The standard is 10mm (that has the electronics right behind the LED, making it need a hole about 30mm deep) and would be too big for me. The 5mm version has the electronics far enough away that the 8mm hole for the 5mm LED could be anywhere.

I so love tearing the dash clear apart...so I'll put it into the instrument light cluster. Same price, which is a total of $21.99 USD according to today's Paypal conversion rate. Here is the picture he sent: