• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Alternator output

mike54

Husqvarna
A Class
I need to upgrade the lights for night rallying - I know the output of the alt at different revs but that's in watts. just wondering what kind of draw LEDs I can safely run? I'm looking at a 70 watt vision x light which i think would be about 6 amps (70/12volts). would the alternator be up to it? if so would it need a relay? I'm an electrical dunce and could use some help.
 

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I've run the Signal Dynamics voltage monitor on a few bikes, they're simple yet sophisticated, and give you all the info you need at a glance. Little green light off to the left, mount it out of your line of sight so it's not distracting at night.
Goes thru a self check at startup - flashes red 3x, yellow 3x, green 3x, and settles into the current voltagle condition. Self dims after 8 seconds.
I run my accessory pigtails (GPS, grip heater, etc) thru a Fuzeblock FZ-1 w/ it's relay tapped into the 5w running light, and my Gerbing coax direct to battery.

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