10-26-2009, 02:10 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Sardis, BC, Canada
Posts: 25,977
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I finally got a chance to try my new speedo today. I took a somewhat simpler approach to installation; the supplied magnet has a small bracket that it screws into for spoke attachment. Rather than use a rare earth magnet, I tossed out the bracket, drilled and tapped a hole in the driven sprocket and screwed the magnet in with a dab of loctite (despite LynnEdwards guidance about not fastening the magnet to a steel surface). I attached the reed switch sensor to the swingarm, adjacent to the sprocket. I presume that the plastic housing around the magnet must have insulated the magnet from the sprocket, because it works well.
I had the Beast up to 65 km/h (40mph) on a fire road today, and I don't really care to go much faster. 
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