Electronics » Skenelights decelerometer question.

Having an issue with this, and yes, I’ve emailed the manufacturer for help.

I don’t see it working...even on the most sensitive setting. I know I had the module installed incorrectly, but I corrected that. Get the bike to 40 mph and drop a gear or two but I never see the lights come on triggered by the module and not the bake levers. Anyone else have this feature and see what I’m doing wrong? Is there a way to test function when the bike is parked?

Are you saying you installed the P3 with the Skene Lights decelerometer module?

(My Clearwater Billy runs off the CAN bus via the CANopener(tm), so a separate decelerometer is not needed....)

I looked at the Skene Lights. Keep us posted on how the company responds.

because i did something similar but a bit more sophisticated

I would suggest to test by hand and not running. I mean you can test it just shaking it.

I’m not sure of that. How hard do I have to shake to trigger it? I Jerry rigged my old video system to record the tail lights. Didn’t work well yesterday (too much light washing out the lights I wanted to observe). I’m trying again before sunrise today.

Well, just got done with the test. It is working...just not as well as I had hoped.

I’ll need someone riding behind me to tell me how often it kicks in, but my test indicated that it takes a good bit of deceleration to make it trigger...even on highest sensitivity. Downshifting from 3 to 1 via clutch then letting out the clutch sometimes made it trigger. It’s hard to tell as viewing from an angle makes the LEDs seem to flicker...so you’re watching for noticeably brighter illumination.

It also does not light up as if the brakes are being applied (whatever brake light mode you selected)...they just glow at brake light levels for the time the module sees fit to keep them on. In my tests, the brighter illumination was for a fraction of a second. I think the feature should trigger the brake light illumination for at least one whole second when triggered, but it does work.

Sadly, the decelerometer feature comes before turn signals, so if you want the lights to work with the turn signals, you have the decelerometer as part of the package.

I suppose the feature depends more on the bike. Clearly it’s a g-force sensor, and even on the highest sensitivity, it takes more deceleration to trigger than the R/RS tends to generate without applying the brakes...which makes the feature redundant.