JaiKai

Happy Birthday, hope you had a great day!

I'm sure I am as its in the club calendar !!

What I'll do is get an extension out and power it up from a dc main adaptor directly at the transformer. Then I'll know for sure, could be I've stuck the wrong transformer on it as I have a few lying around or it simply could be a drop in voltage.

It is, still have the issue with the panel looking more orange as I'm sure when I tested it a few months back it was much darker red!

Drove the zed to work today and thought the rear panel switch i pain stakenly fitted at the week end was broke. I first thought it was broke when i stopped at the traffic lights as the blue neon light on the button was lit and when i looked at it it was in the off position so i thought to myself how can it be lit as its only supposed to be lit when depressed. But then as the traffic lights changed i drove off and it turned off again; then i realised that my bad habbit of foot on the break was actually causing it. With a twist of fate i created a cool feature in that the secondary cable that is suppose to bypass the relay from the switch actually gets voltage when the relay triggers and in turn lights the led as it has its own seperate ground. So now i know when the rear panel is lit as the switch lights blue when i break and when i press it on permantely. Cool eh !!:cool3:

Wooo, the big 5 0 is it !!:smartass:

lol, I know, I was only messing, it does look like it but you did state it was a year ago !

did I not say before i'm up for this ? as long as its a weekend and not too late purely because of the drive to get there.

Lol, did you get the idea from my original thread ? think ill stop posting ideas until there fitted and tested, haha

For a while now i've been wanting to get my rear center panel wired up with and el panel; actually ive had the actual el panel since last june when our very own phutumsch converted my 99 spec one. So over the last week i've been redoing some wiring internally; adding a button here and there and getting things going. Now i didn't want any old switch on my dash but rather some extra cool functionality that i've never seen before in a zed. First off the switch is a small two way brushed aluminum switch which i've placed to the right of the hand break area, its purpose is to switch a 12v current down two lines going which i installed from the head unit area to the rear of the zed. The first line goes directly to the el transformer and the second goes into a relay which is triggered by a spur coming off the break light system. So when the switch is in its normal off position the relay is energized and when i break the el lights up along with the other lights. When the switch is on it over rides the relay and powers the el transformer directly. A month or so in the planning and yesterday and today i stripped the zed and wired it all up to this result : and this is what i get with the breaks engaged : The whole system works perfectly although i think i have a voltage drop via the relay as the el actually lights up more orange now than red. Also it doesn't trigger any bulb warnings in the dash so that's a plus too.

Reminds me of the guy who was a gynaecologist and wanted to become a mechanic; at college he was taught how to dismantle and rebuild an engine and when his exam was to be sat his examiners were amazed by how his precision was but mostly by the fact that he done the whole job through the exhaust.

Jeff I've updated your profile with your current email and activated your account again.

None of these are setup in your forum settings Jeff ! Even though I can access your profile directly; mods and other committee cannot, so we have no idea your contact email is wrong. Its up to the user to update this information directly via the settings panel located at the upper right side of the forums page.

If you don't mind me asking which two do you use ?

As I said in your other post :

Hi Jeff, The forums processes an automated email every night for any user found to be due to there subs running out. This happens no matter what type of sub they have, either regular member or trader. I checked the logs and we did indeed send a reminder but it failed and was returned. Now I'm not willing to post your email address but I did independently send my own email to it and once again It was rejected, I can only suggest that you please check your profile and settings and update your email address to something that is most current and one that can be checked by yourself or other staff / family members. I hope this explains why you never get reminder emails. If I can assist in any email tests let me know. Regards Lee

If it was only like this : [video=youtube_share;bl8Z-gLLSg0]http://youtu.be/bl8Z-gLLSg0

Correct, There was an old Rep system but it was tied into the old garage and to be honest it was more like a glorified comments page. When we swapped over to the new system everyone level was back dated from the day they joined as a normal user and new users from that day forth that have signed up start at zero.

You can see you own comments left for you in the setting panel or in your profile under the reputation tab.

green button under the post number at the top right of each post !

If you feel the two water pipes as you will be able to tell with the heat transfer if water is flowing through them. although saying that if it was jammed shut you would be having over heating issues, so your lucky its jammed open rather than been closed.

How hot does the radiator feel ? could be the stats jammed open, so the engine has to heat up the full coolent system. i had the same issue on my zed and never even knew about it until two years ago Jeff told me at JAE.

Have some Rep for that !

Also remember that Rep Level point can be taken away by anyone if they don't like your posts. And if they have a higher Rep Power then the more points that will come off.

I think your getting confused with Rep Level and Rep Power ! You know show 2 bars as I enabled your rep as it was somehow disabled in your control panel. Rep Power is a multiplier of Rep Level and if Gary has more Rep Level because people have given him good Rep then his will be significantly higher than yours. Theres no way to cheat the system per say so I don't think from a newby point of view we are hiding or making anything up. The committee and mods do have more rep power but that's only because the post more or have been here for sometime and the fact they are mods they're more likely to get rep from people than the average user. To see your actual Rep Level go into your own settings and it doesn't show at the side bar and then you can work it out using the table above. theres only three things needed to calculate your Rep Power and its easy to do : number of full years with the club equals one point per year. number of 1000 posts in your post total equals one point per 1000 posts. lastly 1 point for every 100 Rep Level points. Rep Power is what is given if said user wants to give Rep to someone else's posts. The green bar scale for the first three or four blocks is low range so it can change quickly going up to bars worth more point so they get added less frequently. i think it's a great system as it shows who commits to the club more often and gets rep for it. Rant over.