Thu Oct 24 18:45:13 1996 - Message No. 117
From: 94104032@fhs-hagenberg.ac.at (Achim Muehlberger)

Subject: Re: Tripmaster Top Speed


Hi to all,

Stefan wrote:
>today my tripmaster has shown me a vmax of 320 km/h. It looks great, 
>but i think there is something wrong (maby the gremlins). The tripcounter  
also goes very fast. 
>Every second about 0,1 km. The way to work is about 60 km. Today it where 
85 km on the 
>tripmaster.
>After 2 km the tripmaster resets and goes again up to 320 km/h.
>After 20 km the tripmaster does its normal work again.
>
>Any idee what happend ?

Sure - as Micha mentioned, I had the same problem.

In my case the plus-battery-cable went loose - and this caused above 
problems. I'm sure that if you wait for some days without doing anything on 
the bike you will have no power when turning the key - and suddenly the 
power will be back again.

Simply fix your battery cables and the problem disappears.

There are maybe some side effects:
The indicators only work when the bike is standing, and not when driving 
(really !!!!)
Maybe some other lights don't work

A really interesting problem, but I haven't figured out why the tripmaster 
is running faster when the cable gets loose - even if the clock is running 
normal.
A possibility could be that the sensor in the speedometer measures against 
plus, and because of that the tripmaster thinks of faster driving.


greetings,

Achim Muehlberger


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