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That looks like a great bit of kit, going have to try and get hold of one. Nice video here

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It was a good video, unfortunately I am now unsold on it. I would want 6 trigger wires to control the 6 circuits. My plan would be to replace relays and fuses on individually controlled circuits which this doesn't do. It still looks like a great product though just not for me.
Back to the arduino project I think.
 
Marki_GSA said:
It was a good video, unfortunately I am now unsold on it. I would want 6 trigger wires to control the 6 circuits. My plan would be to replace relays and fuses on individually controlled circuits.......
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Marki, try contacting the manufacturers. I know they will alter the device's 'standard' rating outputs / time delays etc. to suit individual customers' needs. They might, with luck, muck around with other bits'n'bobs, too. But six individual trigger wires might be going some :D. As would six individual units :eek
 
News from the manufacturer in Iowa.

They have no UK distributor at the moment. They tried to get something going with Nippy Norman, but it came to zip. They asked if I had any ideas for alternative UK distributors, so I suggested they try Bikebitz (who import Powerlet kit from America) and / or Motohaus.
 
Ok so I am considering getting me of these PDM60's. I am no electrical engineer (not by a long way) but I am not sure if this is overkill for what I need?
All I need is something to wire in an autocom and another connection to put a multi car charger onto so i can charge phone/tablet etc etc in the top box whilst riding. If this is the piece of kit for me how do you wire in the accesories, don't they need a negative connection or does this go to the bike somewhere? The bike already has lights and sat nav at the front, I would need these out the back somewhere,...

Probably both daft questions so sorry in advance but thanks for any help.

DC
 
Dustcap said:
Ok so I am considering getting me of these PDM60's. I am no electrical engineer (not by a long way) but I am not sure if this is overkill for what I need?
All I need is something to wire in an autocom and another connection to put a multi car charger onto so i can charge phone/tablet etc etc in the top box whilst riding. If this is the piece of kit for me how do you wire in the accesories, don't they need a negative connection or does this go to the bike somewhere? The bike already has lights and sat nav at the front, I would need these out the back somewhere,...

Probably both daft questions so sorry in advance but thanks for any help.

DC
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If that is all you want to do then a bit overkill but it does make it easier adding bits in the future.

The PDM 60 comes will present 'fuses' so if these need changing then you need a computer
 
What I don't understand about this is...

I've wired one onto a new GSA WC, little bit of over kill, but as above it does make life easier if I want to ad more and I probably will be.

Where I've fitted it though the power wire is a little short, it fits, but it's not the best way to route it, its just the only way I can.

What I'd like to do is extend the power wire and run it a bit better, but I can't figure our what amperage it is?

If the unit can deliver up to 60amps, then surely the power and earth wires are 60 amp wires? The earth wire looks pretty substantial, but the power wire doesn't look to be much more than 15 amps

Am I misunderstanding something?
 
The thick red wire is the only one that needs to take the 60A and just eyeballing it looks to be about 4mm Sq. In the normal this wouldn't be big enough but it is so short it will cope with it easy. 4mm will hold 30A all day over 100m so over less than a meter should cope with 60 no problem. It could also be some US gauge size which is in between 4 and 6mm as well
 
Marki_GSA said:
The thick red wire is the only one that needs to take the 60A
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Yep, that's the one I'm talking about

Marki_GSA said:
...and just eyeballing it looks to be about 4mm Sq. In the normal this wouldn't be big enough but it is so short it will cope with it easy. 4mm will hold 30A all day over 100m so over less than a meter should cope with 60 no problem. It could also be some US gauge size which is in between 4 and 6mm as well
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I did wonder if it was because it was fairly sort, I guess then I can use a couple of shortish lengths of 15amp in parallel to extend it safely?
 
Marki_GSA said:
It was a good video, unfortunately I am now unsold on it. I would want 6 trigger wires to control the 6 circuits. My plan would be to replace relays and fuses on individually controlled circuits which this doesn't do. It still looks like a great product though just not for me.
Back to the arduino project I think.
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I know it's a long time since this post, but I've only just seen this as it's been bumped today.

Why do you want 6 individual trigger wires? :nenau

One for ignition ON, another (which this widget is able to deal with) for hi-beam to switch a set of aux lights on/off, I can see that, but 6 individual triggers? :confused:


EDIT.......Another video that perhaps explains things a little better :)

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I'm quite impressed, it certainly looks like a dead handy bit of kit :thumb2

EDIT2....fekk me, it ought to be at that price! :BLAST
 
The idea was so I didn't have to have a bunch of relays or big switches to control the load. I went with it eventually anyway and used micro relays where needed.
Yes it costs a fair bit and to be honest for that money it should be programmable at home to suit what you need/want. That said it is a great bit of kit and it also seems to be very safe. I messed with it a fair bit before fitting. It's definitely waterproof and unlike fuses instantly trips when overloaded. It also resets quickly when the fault is cleared.
Worth it over something like the fuze box? Depends on your values I suppose. One major advantage with the PDM is you can hide it away as you will never need to replace a fuse so don't need access to it.

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Marki_GSA said:
The idea was so I didn't have to have a bunch of relays or big switches to control the load. I went with it eventually anyway and used micro relays where needed.
Yes it costs a fair bit and to be honest for that money it should be programmable at home to suit what you need/want. That said it is a great bit of kit and it also seems to be very safe. I messed with it a fair bit before fitting. It's definitely waterproof and unlike fuses instantly trips when overloaded. It also resets quickly when the fault is cleared.
Worth it over something like the fuze box? Depends on your values I suppose. One major advantage with the PDM is you can hide it away as you will never need to replace a fuse so don't need access to it.

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It seems you can now download their "Dashboard" software to program it at home:

http://pdm60.com/

Instructions here:

http://pdm60.com/wp-content/uploads...nstallation-and-Operation-Manual-052213-1.pdf
 
I wonder if that is a different version from mine. There wasn't any hybrid USB cable supplied with mine. Doesn't mean I couldn't get one and play unless the actual firmware has been changed to accommodate the programing feature.

All that said I have wired round it now so I don't really have any need to change it but it is definitely a nice feature for them to allow now.
 
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