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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
In the headlight cowl, the accessory plug there is 5V.Has anyone found a 5VDC power supply to power up GPS or phones or whatever yet? I've seen talk about one but does it exist?
http://www.opussolutions.com/product/170/DCL_11__15W_.html#specifications
$40, and a bit of overkill for running an iphone, but I'm a big fan, especially if you are going to run more than one device.. I've used them to run 5V single board computers on a couple of bikes without issue. They work great for USB. Another option a lot of folks take is to buy a $20 lighter plug and tear it apart.
Maybe I'm missing something but is this 5V supply in the cowl usable? Why are guys using 12v to 5V convertors if there's already a 5V source on the bike?
Has anyone found a 5VDC power supply to power up GPS or phones or whatever yet? I've seen talk about one but does it exist?
Updating this thread, I now use a Nexus 7 in a RAM cradle made specifically for it (not a universal job) for offline gps navigation.
The Blue Sea USB charger WON'T put out enough power to keep the N7 from discharging its battery!
Some have been successful at getting higher amp outputs by taking the USB unit apart & jumper the two center data pins (there are four pins total). But I don't know offhand if this will be enough power to keep the big N7 from using up its battery.
So if anyone plans on installing one of these - make sure your USB adapter will fill your needs BEFORE you drill like I did!
I'll come up with a fix but it's not a high priority right now.
Updating this thread, I now use a Nexus 7 (an android tablet with a 7" screen) in a RAM cradle made specifically for it (not a universal job) for offline gps navigation.
The Blue Sea USB charger WON'T put out enough power to keep the N7 from discharging its battery!
Some have been successful at getting higher amp outputs by taking the USB unit apart & jumper the two center data pins (there are four pins total). But I don't know offhand if this will be enough power to keep the big N7 from using up its battery.
So if anyone plans on installing one of these - make sure your USB adapter will fill your needs BEFORE you drill like I did!
I'll come up with a fix but it's not a high priority right now.
I used the 5w running light in the headlight on my TE610 and TE630 to trigger the relay in a Fuzeblock FZ1
so, how do I attach a pdf file?