Radio project

If anyone's interested, I've finished fitting one of those Supercheap
Auto marine radios in the pannier of the Deauville. The end result is
pretty neat, and the marine-rated remote control is ... well, usable but
limited in function. Total cost by the time I'd worked out the correct
mix of sizes for the glands was just shy of $300.
Pics of the project are at <http://tinyurl.com/8et23> if anyone feels
like hanging shit on my messy wiring.
- sanbar

 

Do the NTVs come with a radio as standard?

Are you pleased with the interface on the "dash"?

Cheers

Hammo

 

No, but the wiring harness for a radio was already inn place. The Honda
radio was almost twice the cost of this one and used external speakers.

Yer, sort of works for me. It's easy to use, but the buttons are a bit
too sensitive -- noticeable on bumpy roads. The only feature I would
have liked on the remote is the ability to adjust the brightness of the
back-lit screen.
- sanbar

 

Ah

Are you using the speaker/helmet system that you were building some time
ago?

Is the Honda one a rebadged Alpine or something?

Brightness, now, that's bound to get the nerds here talking....

Ta

Hammo

 

Yer, same system. When you're on a good thing ...

Don't know. All I really remember is the cost, which largely inspired
this project.

- sanbar

 

Ah, you don't happen to have the plans available do you?

Cheers

Hammo

 

What, you're buying a Deuville now?

Don't you have driving lights to install on a Volvo or something?

-----sharks [answer the goddamn phone]

 

Plans?!? For the radio or for the helmet?
It's pretty simple stuff - the hardest bit was trying to visualise
everything before I started. The DV already has the wiring in place for
the factory-fitted radio in a plastic boot underneath the left-hand
"dash". The radio needed three wires: live from the live wire on the
left-hand side of the dash, earth (I had enough wire so I returned the
earth to the dash), and the keep-alive wire straight to the battery that
keeps the radio's memory ticking over. The remote came with a 6m
nine-core cable that I just cut to length, and, for the speakers/mike in
the helmet and the PTT switch, ran a similar length from the pannier
back to a kit box mounted behind the LHS dash. The kit box just uses two
stereo jacks and a mono jack for the radio/UHF/mic.
The weather-shield cat5 uses a 5-core DIN plug assembly that plugs in
through the side of the dash (less chance of accidentally pulling the
plug out) to a similar assembly at the helmet end. The helmet was wired
using a $14 pair of multimedia PC headphones stripped back to the wiring
and the wafer speakers.
I can draw everything up if you like, but with only year 11 graphic
design skills it'll be a bit crude.
- sanbar

 

Well, I can also show you how I put the driving lights on the DV, if you
like ...

- sanbar (never one to pour more petrol on the fire)

 

I was gonna look at a beemer....

I just wanna be spoon fed (insert sad smiley here).

Hammo (Dwarf, er, yeah, maintaining enthusisam, woo, er, pleerrrrrrr)

 

That would be great. Most of what you were going on about there reminded me
of being in the wrong lecture at Uni. Though, I have discovered that my
dinner table discussion tend to make people go all odd?

Hammo (This one time........)

 

....and we found it safer to smoke outside!

 

Good thing I wasn't rooting them or I'd have to use more lube!

Hammo (exams over and done with, lets go boozing)

PS Sanbar, I'm still keen on the radio stuff, pleaseeeeee