fender5803 said:
Got a charge indicator LED from Clearwater and a CalSci short windscreen.
-DT
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Follow up on the "gifts" from "Santa"
Installed the Clearwater "voltmeter" very easily. Its harder to find the place for the indicator light IMO than the installation. I put the LED on top of the dash with the L bracket supplied. It could also be mounted in a 1/4" drilled hole anywhere. Nice clean installation. I just hooked it, plus and minus, to the battery and used the fuse supplied. I have to say at first I found the slow flashing green LED to be very annoying but after I got a nice response from Glen at Clearwater explaining why they do it that way and waiting a week as suggested I am finding it much less disconcerting. At first I kept thinking I had left a flasher on ... now I am used to it's incessant flashing that tells me everything is OK. I'm thinking as things go wrong, as they sometimes do, this will be a good $59 investment. Time will tell.
The short CalSci windshield is still getting judged. It seems better than the OEM screen but I added the side deflectors that Yamaha offers at the same time and have not gone back and tried with the original screen and the side deflectors or the short screen without the side deflectors. I do think the side deflectors lessen the buffeting effect but only that it makes it more even. Hard to explain. Less side to side motion which is less buffeting, which is good-!!
I like the look of the dark short screen for what that's worth but would have bought a clear one if offered I think ... I also bought the knobs from CalSci and it is really nice to not have to use a screwdriver to adjust up and down although I know once I find the sweet spot that won't matter much. I can say I see having a winter and a summer screen in my future but it's going to have to be a purchase of the taller CalSci to go with the short one from CalSci. Why CalSci-? ... why not, they work for me but YMMV of course. I hear great things about other screens. I am 6'3" 210 lbs and 34" to 35" inseam (with size 14 to 15 boots).
I'll post more if I ever get around to taping wind shields together to test the buffeting phenomena.
-DT
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In the pictures I tried to show the LED on top of the dash and in the other picture the small box just under the dash that has the descriptions of the lights on it. I don't think it is nessasary to see this box now that I have become used to the multi light function. Clearwater says it is good from -20 degrees F to 200 degrees F or something like that so it could go anywhere. I found it fit there perfectly with a couple tie-wraps. The LED I mounted with the supplied L bracket, a simple drilled hole and screw, stainless steel I used, but not provided.
