BATTERY STATUS MONITOR

The Battery Status Monitor (BSM) is a LED voltmeter designed to monitor the Voltage across a 6 or 12V battery. The BSM is protected against reverse connection and unlike an ordinary Ammeter is immune to vibration. The BSM incorporates an ambient light sensor that dims the LED for night time. Intended for mounting in the headlamp shell or in or below the dashboard on cars.

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http://www.norbsa02.freeuk.com/goffyelectrex.htm

I'm going to feel stupid if this is the same norbsa that's on this forum. I was just farting around on the internet (no, really :mrgreen: ) and ran across this page.

That is pretty cool.

"I'm going to feel stupid if this is the same norbsa that's on this forum. "

You know better than to give the rest of us on the forum a straight line like that. We'll deal with the fart part of your thread later.

NORBSA48503 says he's from Flint, Michigan. But then, you know how we all lie.

Pretty sure these are from AO Services or a clone

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The link is to Paul Goff's website. He is based near High Wycombe (UK), and can often be seen with his trade stand at classic bike shows.

Alan W said:

The link is to Paul Goff's website. He is based near High Wycombe (UK), and can often be seen with his trade stand at classic bike shows.

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Is this stuff any good. It certainly looks interesting.

i have this one on my Commando, its great, easy to install (I manage to put it on one of the wire of the dead assimilatot and ground) but the fifferent colors are a pain to see and remember what is what.
I installed these ones on other bikes and they are grat too:
http://www.cyclegadgets.com/Products/pr ... tem=BOVOLT

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the last one is, in my opinion the best!
Philippe

prmurat said:

i have this one on my Commando, its great, easy to install (I manage to put it on one of the wire of the dead assimilatot and ground) but the fifferent colors are a pain to see and remember what is what.
I installed these ones on other bikes and they are grat too:
http://www.cyclegadgets.com/Products/pr ... tem=BOVOLT

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the last one is, in my opinion the best!
Philippe

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£3.91/$5.39

Wonder if it would work? I posted something similar in another thread but this is cooler. Might have to make it waterproof. There are a bunch like this in the car audio world.

swooshdave said:

Alan W said:

The link is to Paul Goff's website. He is based near High Wycombe (UK), and can often be seen with his trade stand at classic bike shows.

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Is this stuff any good. It certainly looks interesting.

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A friend of mine replaced the ignition light with one of these in the headlamp shell. He had to enlarge the hole slightly as I remember to fit it, but it works very well changing colour as the voltage varies.

Alan

Hello All,
I'm new to this forum.
I also have been bitten by the disease and am the owner of a few old british bikes one
of which is an 850 mk 2 Commando. I have made little changes from the origional
with the exception of a smaller bore master cylinder, an oil pressure gauge and a battery monitor.
I also have fitted a GPS and use the trip log to give me an indication when I need to fuel up, and a
speed indication for those nasty speed traps.

The battery monitor is described below and fits neatly inside the headlight shell it is about an inch square circuit board
and the led goes where the useless asimilator lamp was.

If I can figure how to attach photos I will do so else I can PM them

Came across a neat little circuit that uses a bi coloured LED and very
few components. It has an adjustment to set a trigger point. I set the
point to be just above 12.5 Volts and the led glows (red) below this
level , above this level it glows (green).

It fits where the asimilator lamp is and gives me an indication of
ignition on (red) and when the engine is started it glows (green) if
the charging circuit is working or stays (red) if you have a problem.
You could set the trigger point lower if you wish but I wanted the led
to be (red) when the engine was not running even on a good state of
charge battery, the charging circuit will alway bump the battery up a
bit. I actually started the engine and set it to just be green at idle.

The circuit can be used to monitor voltages anywhere between 9 and 30
volts.

If anyone is interested I can post the circuit.

Regards
Peter R

I use this single LED color change meter to keep ahead of the Bright lights
when creeping in deep dark driveway or stop go traffic.
Requires no mental number processing. You light weight small battery
seekers need one yesterday. Can be seen in full sunlight fine.

hobot