Speedohealer

I installed a Healtech Speedohealer. Install took about 5 mins max( not counting calibration). No fuss no wire splicing or cutting. The leads are high quality and the instructions are adequate. I have borrowed a radar unit from work so on Friday I am going to do the calibrating. I will let you know what I find out tomorrow night. I have pics but they are really uninteresting.

Saikhan wrote:..... I have borrowed a radar unit from work so on Friday I am going to do the calibrating......

Now there is a whole other conversation...

However it would be good if you could also calibrate against a GPS, I'd be interested to know if there was any difference between the radar and GPS satellites,

Cheers,

Barry

Well, all done. It was out 10% (100 on clock indicated 90 on device) did a heap of passes and kept getting the same answer. I don't have a GPS yet, however I will check it out when I do get one. The unit I used was only calibrated a month ago, so all good. You got me interested in using the radar and a gps at the same time just to see if any anomalies show up. I clocked a tree at 5kph once, sort of explains how some of em jump out in front of people.

thats quite a lot of error - 10% i thought they were about 7% out

potatomasher wrote:thats quite a lot of error - 10% i thought they were about 7% out

Yep mine is a steady 7% optomistic against a Garmin 12XL GPS
Garmin suggest with 4 or more birds reading the error is +/- 1kp/h on flat ground. Close enough for me

I used a Magellen which I used to use a lot when I was in my 4WD years. It suggested the speedo was 6.1% optomistic at 110kmph so that is what I've dialled in as the correction factor. Healtech certainly makes it easy to install and calibrate. The downside is that I now get 6.1% worst fuel economy because the bike knows it has travelled less for the fuel used - something to be wary of when getting other people's fuel economy figures! However, my odo is exactly mirroring the distances given on road signs so I reckon it is about right. The other thing I found was a guy that posted some photos and instructions on the net which really made things easy because I had both the Healtech instructions and his complete with photos when I was doing my install. Can't find the site where I go them from now unfortunately.

Ewok1958 wrote:The downside is that I now get 6.1% worst fuel economy because the bike knows it has travelled less for the fuel used - something to be wary of when getting other people's fuel economy figures! However, my odo is exactly mirroring the distances given on road signs so I reckon it is about right.

For some reason the Odo is way more accurate than the speedo. About 1.2km per 100km from memory so economy figures will be pretty right