Fitting an Acumen DG8 gear indicator

[Stoand]

Well, I finally got it up and running, my wiring looks like a rats been through it but at least no one else's will!
It's pretty easy once you know which wires to connect to, which are:

DG8 colour ------------------R3T colour

Black----------------------------------any -ve
Red------------------------------------any +12v switched thru ignition
Green---------------------------------Black/White (pin A31 on ecu)
Orange--------------------------------Pink/Yellow (pin A34 on ecu)
Brown---------------------------------Blue/Purple (pin A01 on ecu)

***Different on the R3C - see post below by OzDave***

Here's a pic of the ECU, pin A1 is the top row, extreme bottom and it goes A2, A3, etc upwards

Once its connected and mounted you have to get it to learn the gears, quite easy, all in the instructions, easier if you have a lifter that will hold the bike at 4000 rpm! I used a freeway
The only hitch at the moment is it dithers a bit when you pull the clutch in but I reckon I need to get it to learn the gears on a nice quiet long straight road.
And before any one says "whataya need that for? you should know what gear you're in"...I like gadgets, get over it
Here's the mounted unit

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[owl]

That's a very timely post, Dave - just bought one, and although I will not attempt to fit it myself, will print this out for the bloke that will.

 

[NativeOne]

Nice post Dave. It's very similar to the Gi Pro, but is connected vastly differently. The Gi Pro connects through the plastic side panel where you connect the accessory plug in.

Native One

 

[Bishop]

I don't get the Accumen.

GiPRO will have a non-ATRE mini-version that will give you the gear position wihtout it having to learn beacuse the bike already has a gear position sensor.

Why buy something that you have to teach when you can get something that's plug and play?

I like your installation, just not the product you selected for the job.

 

[Stoand]

I was thinking the DS too but I already have a PLX gauge plugged in there which gives me a lot more info than gears so , for me, the acumen was the solution

 

[redrocket]

Why Accumen? With all the praise on here about the GIPro you had to be different didn't you. I had one on my Hayabusa and hated it which is why I chose the GIPro. The Accumen is too slow to show the next gear you're in when shifting and when you are sitting there with the clutch in you don't really know what gear you're in. I have enough frustrations in my life, I can't be angered waiting a second or two for a gear indicator to let me know what gear I'm in. I can shift quicker than that thing can tell me what gear I'm in.


Very Nice Install, poor product choice.

 

[owl]

I like the idea of a plug n play Gipro DS - but look at it - it's an ugly great lump of plastic. Yuk.

http://londonbikers.com/news/tags/gipro_ds

 

[Stoand]

i'm hoping its adequate for what I want it for, will know a bit further down the track, seems ok and for the extra $'s of the gipro, I don't need instant notification of gears, a second is quick enough for me

 

[redrocket]

That's one less second your eyes will have on the road, I just found it annoying waiting for that confounding number to come up.

 

[owl]

I just want the thing to tell me when I'm in 5th.