General Category > Central Vehicle Electronics/ZFE/GM issues
Adjusting turn signal parameters?
StephanT:
:D
B4ndit:
Any update on the ability to do this.
Haakon:
This MUST be miss from BMW.
If a timer is used it should NOT start if a brake is "active".
It should not start if the clutch is pulled.
It should not start if the bike is in neutral.
Guess that is to ask for the impossible :)
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It is not difficult to make a small electronic circuit to solve this but not easy to hook up to the existing wiring.
Inspector Gadget:
Unfortunately, the turn signal is directly attached to the ZFE, and it is all done in software in the ZFE, so no electronics in between that, I'm afraid.
A wee bit related: There is a Dutch company that developed something that does some fancy flashing with the turn signals but they do need to install diodes to avoid the ZFE acting up.
And even then it does not always work perfectly, I have understood.
So, for the turn-signals there is no amount of electronics that could resolve the basis of this thread's discussion, in that respect.
Even the BMW dealeRT has to use the BMW diagnostics to adjust the parameters (distance and/or time, yes there is a choice for either or both) for the turn signals.
Amongst a few other things they can adjust. (units for temperature, speedometer, 12/24 hour clock, various alarm settings, RDC units, to name a few that I know off)
I blessed the day I discovered the Kisan Signal Minder on my 1st BMW, and I still miss that on my R1200RT.
I agree it is an oversight of BMW not to make that more accessible for the R1200's, but I guess they went a wee bit overboard when they saw the potential of CAN-bus and the power of the ZFE.
I'm getting cramps keeping my fingers crossed that HexCode can find the time and resources for locate these parameters and devise a way we can adjust those ourselves via the GS911.
But I do keep faith!
Haakon:
DutchMidiMan:
What I had in my (probably stupid) head was a signal delay circuit.
The right or left turn signal is given to the ZFE by a normal switch?
A simple electronic circuit could stop that signal untill the brake was "released"the clutch was released and the bike was "in gear- (not neutral.)
That is what I did om MY bike- not ZFE
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