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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Dropped Bikes
« on: October 08, 2017, 06:49:35 AM »
Once. I was rolling it backwards out of the shed and down the slight ramp. I forgot to put the kickstand up and as it went down the ramp, the kickstand caught and pushed the bike over away from me. Cracked the plastic right about where my knee goes, cracked the turn signal.

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Decoding range from the CANBUS using a Raspberry Pi (LONG!)
« on: April 28, 2017, 08:16:53 AM »
Quote from: CrashCash on April 11, 2017, 04:08:47 AM
* I'm not going to go into much detail on the Raspberry Pi stuff because there's tons of tutorials that explain things far better than I can.
Also, since my desktop environment is Debian Linux, I don't how you would do things like ssh or scp in Windows.
PuTTY is the industry standard for SSH on Windows. It includes an SCP client as well as a private/public key generation tool.

And nice job on decoding the CANbus! I'll have to give it a look after I finish my current... and next... project. :)

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: EV Plug / J1772 Adaptors
« on: January 03, 2017, 09:14:23 PM »
I have the single-plug Tucson EV adapter. It works just fine. I think I put a quick review of it up in the accessories section of this forum.

Now that I have a charge tank, I should probably put it up for sale.

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Air horn on the DSR 2016
« on: November 08, 2016, 01:39:09 AM »
Very clever! Looks good.

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Charge cord storage
« on: November 05, 2016, 02:27:10 AM »
I confess, I do regret the loss of the cup holder on my Vulcan.

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Pics and Vids / Sneaky sneaky
« on: November 01, 2016, 12:51:31 AM »
So on the way home this past weekend... . Funny, this never happened with my Vulcan. :D

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Pics and Vids / Re: Motome did a piece on foresters using Zero's on their grounds
« on: October 31, 2016, 08:04:08 AM »
Pretty cool video.

I was wondering how he wears a helmet with that man-bun. But it looks like he takes it down before he puts the helmet on. :)

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Electric Motorcycle News / Re: No IC vehicles in Germany after 2030
« on: October 31, 2016, 07:58:15 AM »
Quote from: Richard230 on October 30, 2016, 08:38:44 PM
It is kind of hard for me to imagine a Ducati or Moto Guzzi electric motorcycle, however. 
I hear ya. It took me quite a while to wrap my head around Project Livewire. An electric Harley-Davidson? Da fuq?

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Charge cord storage
« on: October 31, 2016, 07:48:44 AM »
I'll just chime in and say I lost my cable from the swingarm hole on the way back from work a couple weeks ago. It definitely does happen. I could not for the life of me get it to fit in the hole in the body. The swingarm seemed like a nice stable place... until it wasn't.

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: charge tank
« on: October 27, 2016, 10:47:14 PM »
A data point for those considering the Charge Tank. This was this past Saturday.

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General Discussion / Re: Charge Later
« on: October 26, 2016, 08:38:49 PM »
I did something similar. The local utility charges more between 1PM and 6 PM, so I use a timer to exclude those hours. I suppose to be nice I should expand that to 10PM or so.

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Has anyone replaced their horn with something people will actually hear?
« on: October 26, 2016, 03:18:31 AM »
The next time I'm fiddling with something, I'll take some pictures. But to be honest, working in there is a PITA and I'm not inclined to open it up without an immediate need.

Hopefully this will help: In order to tie into +12v and bypass the fuses, I did the following:
  • Remove the seat
  • The fuse box is held in place by two bolts. Remove the one on the left. This will allow the box to swing towards you and out from under the frame.
  • On top of the fuse box are a bunch of blue connectors. They're the female side of spade connectors, covered by a rubber boot. The male side comes out of the top of the fuse box. Pick a connector and pull the blue boot straight up and off.
  • Underneath, you'll see the male connector, with a small hole in the end. If you're daring, you can try to thread your connector wire through this hole. That wasn't working for me, so I stripped off 1.25" or so of the wire from the horn, made a loop, and draped it around the male connector.
  • Twist, wrap, tape or solder your loop once it's around the connector so it's reasonably tight.
  • Replace the female connector in the blue boot back onto the male connector. Push hard so it goes all the way down and presses the wire loop down against the top of the fuse box.
  • TEST YOUR HORN
  • Apply electrical tape as you see fit. Replace the bolt in the fuse box. Replace the seat.
  • TEST YOUR HORN

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Has anyone replaced their horn with something people will actually hear?
« on: October 16, 2016, 01:47:11 AM »
Success. The new horn is... a bit bigger than the old one.

The horn is hooked up and operating at OMG volumes. Like an idiot, I originally hooked it in the accessory circuit. A 25 amp horn isn't going to do much on a 10 amp circuit. I ended up tying into the top of the fuse box. Hopefully it will stay put. I'll check on it over the next week or so, just to make sure it doesn't vibrate loose or something.

Edit: Here is it in place.

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Has anyone replaced their horn with something people will actually hear?
« on: October 13, 2016, 11:45:02 PM »
Quote from: SoundMusic on July 30, 2016, 03:05:18 AM
Get this: https://screaming-banshee.com
Screaming Bansyshee LLC
bansheehorn@gmail.com
727-744-6808
I picked up the successor to the Screaming Banshee, the Shockwave. I'll try to put it on the bike this weekend.

Quote from: BrianTRice on July 30, 2016, 09:47:17 PM
(Taking this seriously, ) the DC converter's positive and negative terminals are on its left side as it's installed on the bike (mounted vertically under the seat, but also under some cable and wire runs). +12V is also available from the top of the fuse box, and ground return for all accessories is a cable crimp join mid-way down the "tank" area on the left side in the lowest wire run.
You wouldn't happen to have pictures of the terminals on the left side, would you?

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: charge tank
« on: September 20, 2016, 06:50:49 PM »
Quote from: JaimeC on September 19, 2016, 10:25:58 PM
Since they seem to have different part numbers for the different colors, I'm assuming that means the ENTIRE "tank" assembly is replaced and not just the inner storage compartment?  I ask because I have some stickers on the sides of the existing "tank" that I would not be able to easily move over.
This is correct. On the positive side, they give you the old upper assembly so you can keep it, experiment, sell it, whatever. On the negative side, you're going to have to replace those stickers.

IMHO, you're already spending $2K on an accessory. Another $12 for new stickers isn't that big of a deal.

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