Broken turn signal switch & self-canceling signals

calvarez · 10-28-2018, 02:53 PM

My turn signal switch is very hard to cancel. It presses in but doesn't always actually work. It's a lot to fiddle with and worry about in traffic. The replacement is really cheap from CSC ($25), but I also wonder about better options. I saw a CSC blog entry where Steve was selling his modded-up RX with self-canceling signals, but they didn't give details on that. I've seen several systems where they just cancel after a set time, which seems dumb. My last few bikes have had various forms of intelligent self canceling, though that certain takes more bike integration. Any thoughts/ideas on this, anyone else using something they like?

I've been fantasizing about using an Arduino with an accelerometer and a gyro to build a truly automated system. The accelerometer could detect deceleration without braking and flash the brake light, and use the gyro to detect when you turned and auto-cancel the signals intelligently. But I'm not a good programmer at all, I'm more of a systems guy.

10-28-2018, 02:53 PM	#1
calvarez Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: Peoria, AZ Posts: 334	Broken turn signal switch & self-canceling signals My turn signal switch is very hard to cancel. It presses in but doesn't always actually work. It's a lot to fiddle with and worry about in traffic. The replacement is really cheap from CSC ($25), but I also wonder about better options. I saw a CSC blog entry where Steve was selling his modded-up RX with self-canceling signals, but they didn't give details on that. I've seen several systems where they just cancel after a set time, which seems dumb. My last few bikes have had various forms of intelligent self canceling, though that certain takes more bike integration. Any thoughts/ideas on this, anyone else using something they like? I've been fantasizing about using an Arduino with an accelerometer and a gyro to build a truly automated system. The accelerometer could detect deceleration without braking and flash the brake light, and use the gyro to detect when you turned and auto-cancel the signals intelligently. But I'm not a good programmer at all, I'm more of a systems guy.
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