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Mine is a SigmaSport (although it's a couple yrs old, so they may have
changed) and while I haven't had a reason to cut the wire I'm fairly confident in saying, since the insulation resembles regular lamp cord (two wires running parallel)that it is not coaxial. Dan S midMO FLM wrote: Tom gave a simple and clear answer to my earlier question. Now my question is how do I know which computers have coaxial wires and which do not. I have been poking around the manufacturer's web sites and I can't seem to find this information. |
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I thought your original question was 1] where to mount wheel sensor 2] Where
to mount computer so captain could read it. I didn't see anything about splicing wires ,which is why I went into great detail to explain how you could accomplish both 1 and 2 and even offered to send you pics of how I did it . I know which computers use coaxial wires ,but I'm not sure if that's really what you want to know. BTW, Tom Sherman giving anybody a simple and clear answer to anything is a first for this N.G. Hi Tom! Rans-rans- rANS RAns Ben fox "FLM" wrote in message ... Tom gave a simple and clear answer to my earlier question. Now my question is how do I know which computers have coaxial wires and which do not. I have been poking around the manufacturer's web sites and I can't seem to find this information. Thanks in advance for your help. FLM wrote: I am now the proud owner of a Wizwheelz TerraTrike Tandem. However, it is not readily apparent to me how I can mount a cycle computer on the trike. In particular, it is not clear where I would mount the sensor so that it is close enough to the wheel. Note that I would like to mount the computer so that the captain can read it. Any advice would be welcome. I have been searching around the internet, but haven't found anything yet. The easiest option might be to mount the sensor by the rear wheel (this is what I have on my Dragonflyer). It is unlikely that you will be able to find a computer with a wiring harness that long, so cutting and splicing the wire would be required. Avoid computers that use a coaxial wire to the sensor, as they are hard to splice. -- Tom Sherman - Curmudgeon and Pedant |
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Ben:
You are correct about what my original question was and I appreciated your answer. After a few folks suggested splicing a wire, I posted the second question to see if I could increase my options. I am headed out to the garage now to see if I can attempt a fix similar to what you suggested. Frank in Ames On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:49:22 -0500, "Ben Fox" wrote: I thought your original question was 1] where to mount wheel sensor 2] Where to mount computer so captain could read it. I didn't see anything about splicing wires ,which is why I went into great detail to explain how you could accomplish both 1 and 2 and even offered to send you pics of how I did it . I know which computers use coaxial wires ,but I'm not sure if that's really what you want to know. BTW, Tom Sherman giving anybody a simple and clear answer to anything is a first for this N.G. Hi Tom! Rans-rans- rANS RAns Ben fox "FLM" wrote in message .. . Tom gave a simple and clear answer to my earlier question. Now my question is how do I know which computers have coaxial wires and which do not. I have been poking around the manufacturer's web sites and I can't seem to find this information. Thanks in advance for your help. FLM wrote: I am now the proud owner of a Wizwheelz TerraTrike Tandem. However, it is not readily apparent to me how I can mount a cycle computer on the trike. In particular, it is not clear where I would mount the sensor so that it is close enough to the wheel. Note that I would like to mount the computer so that the captain can read it. Any advice would be welcome. I have been searching around the internet, but haven't found anything yet. The easiest option might be to mount the sensor by the rear wheel (this is what I have on my Dragonflyer). It is unlikely that you will be able to find a computer with a wiring harness that long, so cutting and splicing the wire would be required. Avoid computers that use a coaxial wire to the sensor, as they are hard to splice. -- Tom Sherman - Curmudgeon and Pedant |
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FLM wrote in message . ..
Tom gave a simple and clear answer to my earlier question. Now my question is how do I know which computers have coaxial wires and which do not. I have been poking around the manufacturer's web sites and I can't seem to find this information. Thanks in advance for your help. Avocet computers have twin-parallel conductors and are quite easy to splice, even for people (like me) who have hands the size of Magilla Gorilla's. I even managed to put in quick-disconnects, using plugs from radio-controlled models. Jeff |
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Just take a careful look at the wires between the sensor [the end that
mounts by the wheel that the magnet goes by as your are riding] and the bar mount that the compter slips into. If the wires runing between these two ends looks like speaker wire, bell wire, or an old two wire extension cord it is not coaxual cable. Coaxual cable is used in television and computer networking applications and is not used on bicycle computers as a general rule. Both types of wire can be easily spliced. If you want to add distance to the standard two wire mounts just buy some bell wire, cut the wires, strip the ends, cut a length of bell wire to add in the middle and strip both ends. Then simply twist each pair of wires together and either put on wire nuts or solder the wires together [which I prefer]. You can slip shrink tubes over the wires before you do this you simply slip the tubes over the joint and then heat them with a hair dryer and they shrink to keep out water. I use the that rubber dip that you can use to put on the handles of your tools to do the same job. If you want to splice coaxual cable just by coaxual cable that is the same size as the wire you want to splice. Carefully strip off the outer layer of insulation and pull the wire net away from the ****e center wire. Strip that center wire. Now all you do it connect center wire to center wire and the outer mesh with the outer mesh using wire nuts or solder. Then cover with insulation to keep out the moisture and you have made a long wire harness. |
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Both my Cateye Astrale and Mity 2's have wires with 2 separate
cores. I have spliced them several times to either extend them or fix breakages. Simon -- Flux V220 CLWB | Zox20 Lowracer Hase Kettwiesel trike | ex-Pashley PDQ SWB Simon Kellett, Darmstadt, Germany | http://home.arcor.de/zoxed |
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