My Custom M900

[1KDS]

Bike looks great, nice work.  I'm in the market for a custom dash setup for my project bike, would you recommend that Acewell?

[Steve.In.Atlanta]

There also Moto Gadget. Super pricey but it's German made.

[ChrisK]

No baffles in the exhaust.

I like the Acewell, but I have three complaints. First, you really have to mount the speedo sensor super close to the magnet to get a good reading. Second, the magnet they give you isn't that great, I bought a flatter stronger one from the hardware store that works better. Third, the tach reading doesn't seem accurate, it's reading above 8 grand at cruising speeds for me, which can't be right.

Aside from that, I love the way it looks, two different trips are nice, the clock is great to have, and I like a digital speed readout.

[1KDS]

There also Moto Gadget. Super pricey but it's German made.

Sure, they are probably the best but I'm not sure it's in the budget

I like the Acewell, but I have three complaints. First, you really have to mount the speedo sensor super close to the magnet to get a good reading. Second, the magnet they give you isn't that great, I bought a flatter stronger one from the hardware store that works better. Third, the tach reading doesn't seem accurate, it's reading above 8 grand at cruising speeds for me, which can't be right.

Aside from that, I love the way it looks, two different trips are nice, the clock is great to have, and I like a digital speed readout.

Thanks for the FHE, not sure which direction I'll go at this point.

[duc996]

Love the looks of those pipes!

[ducpainter]

No baffles in the exhaust.

I like the Acewell, but I have three complaints. First, you really have to mount the speedo sensor super close to the magnet to get a good reading. Second, the magnet they give you isn't that great, I bought a flatter stronger one from the hardware store that works better. Third, the tach reading doesn't seem accurate, it's reading above 8 grand at cruising speeds for me, which can't be right.

Aside from that, I love the way it looks, two different trips are nice, the clock is great to have, and I like a digital speed readout.

Check to see if the tach can be adjusted for the number of firing pulses/stroke. Your 900 fires twice so the tach is reading double. You also could tell it you have a different # of cylinders.

[ChrisK]

AH, you're right, I do remember a mystery setting in the menu hierarchy that I've been skipping past in my quest to dial in the speedo, I'll mess with that today. Thanks Ducpainter.

[coduc]

No baffles in the exhaust.

I like the Acewell, but I have three complaints. First, you really have to mount the speedo sensor super close to the magnet to get a good reading. Second, the magnet they give you isn't that great, I bought a flatter stronger one from the hardware store that works better. Third, the tach reading doesn't seem accurate, it's reading above 8 grand at cruising speeds for me, which can't be right.

Aside from that, I love the way it looks, two different trips are nice, the clock is great to have, and I like a digital speed readout.

Not sure but with cars that have electronic tachs you have to clip wire loops or somehow set whether it is 4 cylinder, 6, 8 or whatever.  Perhaps there is some config to fix it?

[ChrisK]

Not sure but with cars that have electronic tachs you have to clip wire loops or somehow set whether it is 4 cylinder, 6, 8 or whatever.  Perhaps there is some config to fix it?

Did you see the comments above?

[Rudemouthsky]

All the people digging on that Acewell may wish to check this one out, it's what I went with. Chris, how was the installation of that thing? I haven't hooked mine up yet...

http://www.dan-moto.com/DM_INT/lcd-digital-speedometer-tachometer-product-137.html?zenid=kc3vc1cqekuev3f235dstpinm6



Really liking what you did with your bike also, Chris 

[ChrisK]

Install was pretty easy, but that said, I'm very comfortable with wiring diagrams and cutting/soldering wires... I know there are some people that aren't. The other thing is, I had to fabricate a small bracket to hold the magnetic speed sensor, there's no good place to mount it so that it's close enough to the magnet spinning around on your rotor. I can get a picture of that if someone is interested.

The Acewell wiring diagram was actually easier to follow than the Ducati one, so that was cool. What I really like about the Acewell wiring harness is that it comes with quick disconnects, so you don't have to completely hard wire it into the bike. I don't know why I would ever take it off, but I guess it's nice to know that I easily can.

[Rudemouthsky]

Did you cut the Ducati ponytail (that big screw in plug) or did you find some kind of bullet connecters to fit into the pins? I'd like more details on that install please...I may or may not do mine this fall/winter

[ChrisK]

I just cut it off.

The Acewell kit comes with basically 6 or 7 inch wire leads with connectors at the end of them. Then probably 2 ft wires going into the gauge itself with the opposite connectors. I just cut off the OEM Ducati plug and followed the two wiring diagrams to match the correct colors to each other. I messed up a couple because the font on the Ducati diagram is tiny and I misread a couple.

I'll try to remember to take a picture of the bracket I made for the speed sensor mount sometime today.

[ChrisK]

Here's a picture that shows how I mounted the sensor. Short piece of steel that I cut, drilled, and bent. Next to it you can see the magnet, it looks a little weird because some epoxy seeped out the sides. Yes, I epoxied a magnet to steel. The one they give you is very tiny and underpowered. It flew off immediately. I purchased one the size of a dime and it too flew off at highway speed. So I took the same one and epoxied it on. Couple hundred miles now and we're good. You really do want the sensor mounted as close to the magnet as possible, also changing the engine revolutions per signal setting corrected my tach reading.

[HotIce]

I liked it more in yellow