"Green light changer" / traffic light magnet

[No Worries]

Originally Posted by NeonspeedRT

... Second thing, with your bike running, and in the upper left corner of the sensor, hit your engine start button once or twice. It won't hurt anything at all. The switch will send enough of a signal for the sensor to ditect. I was told this about a year ago. It has worked for me 99.9% of the time since then. I used to have lights that would never turn, no matter what I did. Now I try this method and like I said it has worked for me 99.9% of the time.
Good luck and let me know if it works for you.

You can make an even better signal than the starter, because mine is on top of the engine. In grade school, we made an electromagnet by wrapping an insulated wire around a bent nail, and attaching the wires to a battery. It would pick up a bunch of nails. How about making a small electromagnet under your engine? You could hook it up to a relay and switch just for traffic lights.

['73 H1 Triple]

The ebay item arrived today. If it works I'll be completely amazed. The magnet isn't that big.

I'll get pics tomorrow.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by '73 H1 Triple

The ebay item arrived today. If it works I'll be completely amazed. The magnet isn't that big.

I'll get pics tomorrow.

Yea I got mine today too...we'll see.

[Gas Man]

I can't wait to hear and also see the differences.

[jeeps84]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

I can't wait to hear and also see the differences.

['73 H1 Triple]

My ebay light changer came in the mail yesterday. The shiny coin is a quarter for size comparison.


The directions said to mount it as low as possible without surrounding it by steel ( DOH!! ) so I put it on the crossbrace for my center stand.






Now that it's installed ( total time was under 5 minutes as a tie wrap holds it in place), I'll be willing to bet that the light in question will have cars there all week when I pull up.

I'll report back as soon as I find out if it works.

Jeff

[jeeps84]

Nice location for install.

[Amber Lamps]

Well,here's mine. Unfortunately,I installed it without taking step by step pics but here's what I have...oh and I would say that mine is smaller than his at 1"X3"X1/8" and it doesn't have any "case" of any kind. The black ridges on the unit are "flux ridges" that isolate the magnet from metal when you mount it to a open frame bike like 73's. I mounted mine inside my fairing with the magnet side down using 3m double sided tape. The adhesive that came with the unit didn't work btw. I originally mounted it with the fins down in line with where the adhesive was and it didn't work. I've removed it and flipped it so the flat side is down and I'll let you know after I get a chance to test it better.

To be honest,and I'm sorry GasMan but I've gotten much stronger magnets from old car speakers. Granted a speaker magnet weighs a lot more...

I know for a fact that a magnet will trigger a loop. I've used them to test loops in the past for my job but I get dubious when a company claims a magnet roughly the size of a stick of gum can trigger a loop. We'll see..

The pics are of the package it came in,some poor pics of the unit,and an outside shot of where it is on my bike.

['73 H1 Triple]

That looks like the backside of mine.

Also, I put this on my '93 Kawasaki ZR1100 as the '73 H1 is still in my basement

[Gas Man]

Still waitin on results....