• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Trail Tech Endurance II

John R Percoski

John R Percoski

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm installing one on my 2012 TE 250. Is there any reason why I can't splice in to the speedo pickup instead of mounting a new magnet and cable?

Also my wiring diagram shows a violet wire for a GPS, I can't seem to find it anywhere. I was going to use this for power.
 
You mean like this? I have started doing in install for a trail tech voyager and figured I might as well go ahead and keep the stock unit on the bike as back up. I created a two headed cable to do it.

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I used a terminal that is basically heat shrink with solder already in it. You strip back the wires twist them together then slip the connector over. Using a heat gun you simply heat it up which forms a water resistant seal and a nice clean soldered joint. No need to tin and solder the wires a few companies make them but here is the basic idea.

http://www.calcentron.com/Pages/fusion_solder_heat_shrink/fusion_solder_heat_shrink.html

After that I slipped some heat shrink over it and made a nice clean finished looking cable. Good luck. I'll let you know how my finished install works out.
 
Is there any way you could post some pictures of the setup on the bike? i would like to see how you went about mounting it.
 
Sure thing. It's still a work in process. I am having a buddy machine my highway dirt bikes top clamp with isolators top and bottom so I can mount directly to it and still view both. I should be getting it back this week so look for pics by next weekend.
 
I 'm going to need a Plan B. I got the cable made up and found that only the stock speedo would register. I unplugged that one and then the Trail Tech would work. I did try both ends on both speedos to make sure my wiring was OK. They both work on either speedo. It seems like only one can be used at a time and the default is the stock one.
Any ideas?????

Also the mount that came with the Trail Tech is great. It mounts the unit right over the bar clamps and both speedos can be seen easily.
 
KXcam22 said:
Those magnet pickups generate a very small millivolt AC waveform signal. It is likely that it is not strong enough to be detected by both units at the same time, since the impedance of each unit will reduce the signal. Do you have them wired so the speedos are in series or parallel? It is possible it could work in parallel since it splits the current but keeps the voltage to each unit the same. You could also experiment with different magnets. A stronger super magnet will give a stronger signal (to a point). Hope this helps. Cam.
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I have them in parallel. I can try the magnet that came with the Trail Tech, if that doesn't work I have super magnet at work. Thanks
 
My dealer, George@Uptite made a sensor holder that he attached to the brake unit...very clean..no pics..used some square channel alumininum I believe as the raw stock. Both units work although the Voyager is about 1 mph lower than the stick speedo. Voyager Tach works fine too. This is on a Beta but nothing would be much different if he put it on my 2012 TE310
 
I installed a super magnet (probably many times the strength of the original), only one unit will work and the stock speedo was giving wrong speeds. Unless I really was going 253 MPH LOL.
I'm going to make a new bracket as glangston suggested and use two pickups from the same magnet.
 
The two headed cable idea didn't work. I ended up getting a universal pickup for inverted forks. All I had to do then was mount the sensor. Both units work fine from the same magnet.


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Motosportz said:
Careful with that location that is does not get smashed on full compression of the fork.
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It's hard to see from that picture but the forks would have to travel within a quarter inch of the casting to hit the sensor. If I hit anything that hard I would have more serious problems :)
 
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