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PBKrarup
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Welcome Jim!
PASQ indeed does have a brilliantly engineered fold down shelf. Got mine mounted yesterdayI'm going for a little ride this weekend I'll let you know how it goes. I have to find a cooler or a way to secure a couple bear cannisters, just had to wait for the shelf to arrive...
What kind of bear would fit into a canister? Willingly, anyway.
PBKrarup
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Hi, Rod!
In addition to the tail lights, I'd like to get the Clearwater Lights Billie Jr installed at the back of the ADV1. I'll buy it & send it to you when needed. It hooks into most/all of the CANBUS doodads and (hopefully) picks up the programming of my bike-mounted Billie Jr.
There's a "mini-Billie" that doesn't have the license-plate screw-holes but it attaches via double-sided tape and I'd rather avoid that potential failure point.
The unit is approximately 2" high, if that helps.
The online manual for the Billie is here - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0...-ee06-4558-bf0e-a0cbf4b2171a.pdf?v=1635289164
In addition to the tail lights, I'd like to get the Clearwater Lights Billie Jr installed at the back of the ADV1. I'll buy it & send it to you when needed. It hooks into most/all of the CANBUS doodads and (hopefully) picks up the programming of my bike-mounted Billie Jr.
There's a "mini-Billie" that doesn't have the license-plate screw-holes but it attaches via double-sided tape and I'd rather avoid that potential failure point.
The unit is approximately 2" high, if that helps.
The online manual for the Billie is here - https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0...-ee06-4558-bf0e-a0cbf4b2171a.pdf?v=1635289164
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It seems like this connects to a CANopener. There's not a CAN system on the trailer (it connects to the bikes CANsmart) so most likely, another set of wires would need to be run to the front of the trailer to a CAN system. The other option would be to wire everything individually into the existing wires at the back. This is probably the better option but will be fairly involved.
PBKrarup
Member
Pics & writeup, stat!! ;-)
FWIW, my birthday is 1 August so if a large package shows up on my doorstep close to that date, I'll be very happy.
PBKrarup
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Indeed, the Billie does connect to the Clearwater Lights' CANopener and per Billy at Clearwater, "The wire can be as long as 120 inches and you still be fine for the Billie brake light."
Therefore I assume that the wire from the Billie can run from the light all the way through the ADV1 wiring harness to the CANopener on the bike.
Hopefully, that will also allow my ham radio's power lines, CAT5 signal lines, and antenna cable to also share that wiring access, however that ends up. I'll try to avoid a rat's nest of spaghetti wiring!!
EDIT: Oh, and I'd probably see if I could upgrade the USB to handle charging a phone, a tablet, my helmet's Sena, and my Spot devices. Ray Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric" comes to mind once again!!
Adventures in configurations!!
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PBKrarup
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Grommets on the foldable solar panel = laying it over the top luggage & charging as you ride, yay!
Tony D.
Beta Tester
I'm of two minds:
Mount the LiFePO4 Deep Cycle Battery(ies) linked to a foldable solar array on the ADV1 powering a StarLink antenna (lord knows we have the room for such insanity) and work lit-er-all-ly from anywhere on the big blue marble
or
Keep my SPOT close and get the hell away from all humanity until further notice
Not sure which would be more fun...
Mount the LiFePO4 Deep Cycle Battery(ies) linked to a foldable solar array on the ADV1 powering a StarLink antenna (lord knows we have the room for such insanity) and work lit-er-all-ly from anywhere on the big blue marble
or
Keep my SPOT close and get the hell away from all humanity until further notice
Not sure which would be more fun...
Already worried about competition from Bezos's outfit, whatever it's called?
PBKrarup
Member
I'm going to stick with available (Verizon) coverage for my phone & my SpotX GPS beacon.
I'm not that worried about trying to keep up with the Kardashians or Bachelor or Tigerman, whatever.
My wife was on Jeopardy and we DVR that & the various Nature/NOVA stuff, I'll catch up when I get home.
Just a thought for the day/week - These last few generations live better than the old kings & queens of Europe and we don't recognize it. I visited the Railroad Museum in York, England and saw Queen Victoria's private train & the compartment where she relieved herself. Just an upholstered chair with a hole in the bottom where her poop & pee just dumped onto the railroad ties. Yay, sanitation...
PBKrarup
Member
I'm going to experiment with that, whether it floats negligibly better if the two magazines are loaded. Oh, and I picked up 500 rounds of .22LR, so I'm not loaded for bear... Definitely loaded for empty beer cans, tho....
