Do you have any ideas as to how it should work? Not practical to change the switch/lever. Can’t interrupt power, as that supplies brake lights. Correct?
I guess that needs real magic!
Man… saying stuff like that makes me wonder… its like we both are engineering type guys who have spent decades working on a wide & diverse assortment of stuff and 'scmachines and often asking ourselve why they desiged it “that way” and can it be improved, while simultaneously being humorously sardonic…
… Nah. Must be An internet rumor. I should Snopes this…
I kind of feel the dual purpose use of
the worlds first piezo loud enough that even Hellen Keller could have heard it may have been a programming or pinout thing with the GE Septex controllers or it may have been to satisfy Giverment RFPs for fleet sales, al govermemyl utility / industrial vehicles ive ever used our seen have backup alarm annunciators. As its not even an OSHA requirement unless dirrct rearward view (mirrors and cameras dont count here as they are not “direct” - the Mk-I eyeball must have an unobscured dirct line of sight to qualify) and NTSB has similar wording.
Discaimer My experience with motorcycles is very limited,.
Arent Gold Wings kind of the “Cadillac” of cruisers though? When i leant Red (my first gem.a 2002 longbed with a peeling red front cowl) to a friend i warmed him that turn signal was not self canceling and that i had unpluggedbthe bpiezo from hell. His comment was that hes got this and its just like his motorcycles (he has like 5 that run most of the spectrum: not for road use dirt, enduro, cruiser, crotch rocket and another 1 or maybe 2,)
Looks like it was a combination of actions which had to happen and would happen on a turn. According to AI:
The Honda Goldwing automatic turn signal system cancels automatically based on a combination of distance traveled, time elapsed, and changes in lean angle (gyroscope data). It calculates when a turn is completed to turn off the indicators, while also accounting for short-duration lane changes.
Today, that gyroscope is a couple of cents and the size of gnats ass but can you imagine what it must have been in 1980!
Holy Shizt Dougieman! The Honda Gold Wings were built with gyros?
Obviously they were small, now we could make them down right tiny. I wonder what the spinup time was for the old ones?
On ships, our gyros could take two hours to to spin up to operation speed..
That was my thought too. Looking deeper the 1980-early 1990s used only timer and distance and in later models they added the gyroscope( gotta think MEMS ).
So it would seem we’d need to get the GEMs onto 2 wheels around corners to implement a similar auto blinker disconnect as on the Goldwings. LOL
Doug, I wasnt calling you out. I was actually impressed they used a micro-gyro that early on.
Remember the late 70’s or early 80’s Toyota that had talked? “Your door is ajar. Your door is a ajar” “the trunk is open” “the hood is open” and 4 other (?) sayings. Well, laserdisc mpeg2 existed, cd audio was just coming out, but mpeg3 voice on flash didn’t exist yet. The voice was provided via minature record player buried in the dash . Now most of us didn’t know that for 20 years after the car was gone from the market and Jalopnik found one in a junkyard and cut it up to take a picture of how the magic happened. I kind of took your statement along those lines.
Maritime gyros for deep water are big and heavy. And they are located in their own compartment as close to.the metacenter of the vessel as possible. The bridge unit is just a repeater. So much depends on those gyros, after spin up, you have to take the ship out and go through a calibration procedure by pointing the entire vessel in various directions based on your magnetic compas, gps, and, back in my day, loran-c data. Depending on the size and maneuvering capability of the vessel, this can take up to an hour. If we lost main generators, in the 90 seconds it would take for the emergency diesel generator to auto-start and put itself on line, we could lose a couple degrees on the gyro. A couple degrees across the ocean is the difference between making landfall in England or the Mediterranean…
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