UPDATE! Pictures included below!
Okay, I already know this thread is worthless without pics. I'll go reverse-engineer some pics for everyone as soon as I get a chance. Just never thought of it while I was working on it because I was so focused on making it work right.
Anyhoo, I installed a garage door opener in the new house yesterday. Finally! Now the wiff doesn't have anything else to complain about.
For now, that is!
But then, it became a question of, "How to deal with the remotes for the bikes?" Didn't really want to make it a chore to find the remote every time we left or came home.
Poking around the web and this board a little bit, I found some details about doing this mod. Basically, you just buy a remote which works with your GDO. The little mini keychain remotes are simple to mess with. This is the one we used. I got one for each bike but I've only installed one so far.
This one would have been just as good but Home Depot didn't have it. Would have saved us $10 between the two of them.
I took the back off the remote and a little green circuit board fell out along with the battery. NOTE: You MUST use a remote that has a 12-volt battery in order to do this mod. It says on the battery what voltage it is.
You can see the little buttons mounted to the circuit board. Figure out which one opens your garage door and then turn the board over. You'll see two contact points on the back of the circuit board. Here's where I almost decided not to do this mod. You have to solder a jumper wire between those two contact points. I have never soldered anything in my life. However, I wanted this mod in a fierce way!
So, another trip to Home Depot and another $25 for a soldering iron, some solder and some flux and I'm now going to be a soldering genius. Maybe.
Took the battery out first (mandatory) and managed to properly solder a short wire across the two points. After three tries. Remember, that by doing this, the button on your remote is now permanently "pressed." Adding power by reinserting the battery should instantly trigger your GDO. If it doesn't, something is wrong.
I had a moment of panic after each of the first two tries because reinserting the battery didn't open the garage door. The red light on the remote was coming on but it didn't trigger the door. I was thinking I had screwed up big time. After the third try, it still didn't work. I sat there and pouted. I was just about to throw in the towel and try it with the other remote when just for giggles, I tried putting the battery in one more time. It worked! The only thing I can figure is that during the soldering process, the microchips heated up and simply needed to cool off.
Next step was to solder two wires about 18" long onto the terminals for the battery. It's imperative that you note which wire is on the negative and postive battery terminals. After soldering those on (I'm an expert by now), I applied the loose wire ends to the remote's battery. Again, the door is still working!
I drilled a hole in the back of the remote and put the wires through it and buttoned it all up again. Now, I have a remote in hand, with useless buttons on it. The button is permanently "pressed" now. It has wires for power sticking out of the back of it. I can now wire those into whatever system I wish.
In order to make it water resistant, I lit a candle and let hot wax drip all around the seams and over the buttons and the light. Any little crevice where water might get in. Let that cool and dry, then taped it all up with black electrician's tape.
Of course, it can't be hooked directly to the motorcycle battery or the button will "press" that one time and then you're done.
I chose to wire it to the hi-beam switch. Actually, the wires to the high-beam switch. I used a wiring diagram in a Haynes manual for my bike and buried deep within the nose of the Busa, I found the wires for the high-beam power and ground wires. Traced them out and gently cut off some insulation with a razor blade. Most of that wiring is stranded wire so I had to be careful not to cut too deeply.
If I'm not mistaken, the high beam switch on the Busa only gives a momentary power burst to the circuit and not a continuous power feed. Make sure this is the case on your bike if you decide to do this mod. (If I AM mistaken, I may be burning out a remote the next time I go on a long night ride!)
With the wire exposed, I soldered the lead wires from the modified remote to those wires on the bike. Remember, you need to keep straight which is positive and which is negative or this is NOT going to work. (The negative wire on the remote goes to the battery ground wire on the bike.)
If I can solder, you can too, most likely!
Once I had the leads soldered into place, I taped up all the exposed solder joints with black electrician's tape. Then I found a place on the frame under the cowling where I could zip-tie the remote and viola! I'm done (except for putting it all together, of course).
I hit the high beam switch. Nothing happened. Dummy. You have to turn the bike on first. Turned the bike on and hit the switch again! Hey! It's working! The garage door started to rise. Hit the switch off, then on again and it stopped the door. A third time off and on and it closed the door.
This was soooooo, cool (to me, anyway) that I sat there playing with it for about 20 minutes. I think that was when the wiff came out to the garage and said, "What the he!!'s going on?" Now, of course, she's all over me to put it on her bike too!
LMAO
Put it all back together again, played with it some more and cleaned up! I noticed that if the high beam switch is "on" when you turn the key on, it will power the remote and open the garage door when you start the bike. Also kinda cool!
I just need the wiring diagram for the 06 Gixxer 1000. Anyone have it? I'm betting it's the same wire colors as the Busa but I don't know for certain.
This is soooooo, cool!
There are easier ways to do this but I don't care. I think this is the BEST way!
Best thing about this is that you don't have an active remote on your bike (it only works with the key in the "ON" position). Second best thing is, it's completely out of sight and unless you tell someone about it, they'll never know it's there.
Now I can open my garage door without having to hunt for a remote and without having to stop and search for it or even take my hands off the handlebars!
I'm easily amused and I have way too much time on my hands!
--Wag--
Okay, I already know this thread is worthless without pics. I'll go reverse-engineer some pics for everyone as soon as I get a chance. Just never thought of it while I was working on it because I was so focused on making it work right.
Anyhoo, I installed a garage door opener in the new house yesterday. Finally! Now the wiff doesn't have anything else to complain about.
For now, that is!
But then, it became a question of, "How to deal with the remotes for the bikes?" Didn't really want to make it a chore to find the remote every time we left or came home.
Poking around the web and this board a little bit, I found some details about doing this mod. Basically, you just buy a remote which works with your GDO. The little mini keychain remotes are simple to mess with. This is the one we used. I got one for each bike but I've only installed one so far.
This one would have been just as good but Home Depot didn't have it. Would have saved us $10 between the two of them.
I took the back off the remote and a little green circuit board fell out along with the battery. NOTE: You MUST use a remote that has a 12-volt battery in order to do this mod. It says on the battery what voltage it is.
You can see the little buttons mounted to the circuit board. Figure out which one opens your garage door and then turn the board over. You'll see two contact points on the back of the circuit board. Here's where I almost decided not to do this mod. You have to solder a jumper wire between those two contact points. I have never soldered anything in my life. However, I wanted this mod in a fierce way!
So, another trip to Home Depot and another $25 for a soldering iron, some solder and some flux and I'm now going to be a soldering genius. Maybe.
Took the battery out first (mandatory) and managed to properly solder a short wire across the two points. After three tries. Remember, that by doing this, the button on your remote is now permanently "pressed." Adding power by reinserting the battery should instantly trigger your GDO. If it doesn't, something is wrong.
I had a moment of panic after each of the first two tries because reinserting the battery didn't open the garage door. The red light on the remote was coming on but it didn't trigger the door. I was thinking I had screwed up big time. After the third try, it still didn't work. I sat there and pouted. I was just about to throw in the towel and try it with the other remote when just for giggles, I tried putting the battery in one more time. It worked! The only thing I can figure is that during the soldering process, the microchips heated up and simply needed to cool off.
Next step was to solder two wires about 18" long onto the terminals for the battery. It's imperative that you note which wire is on the negative and postive battery terminals. After soldering those on (I'm an expert by now), I applied the loose wire ends to the remote's battery. Again, the door is still working!
I drilled a hole in the back of the remote and put the wires through it and buttoned it all up again. Now, I have a remote in hand, with useless buttons on it. The button is permanently "pressed" now. It has wires for power sticking out of the back of it. I can now wire those into whatever system I wish.
In order to make it water resistant, I lit a candle and let hot wax drip all around the seams and over the buttons and the light. Any little crevice where water might get in. Let that cool and dry, then taped it all up with black electrician's tape.
Of course, it can't be hooked directly to the motorcycle battery or the button will "press" that one time and then you're done.
I chose to wire it to the hi-beam switch. Actually, the wires to the high-beam switch. I used a wiring diagram in a Haynes manual for my bike and buried deep within the nose of the Busa, I found the wires for the high-beam power and ground wires. Traced them out and gently cut off some insulation with a razor blade. Most of that wiring is stranded wire so I had to be careful not to cut too deeply.
If I'm not mistaken, the high beam switch on the Busa only gives a momentary power burst to the circuit and not a continuous power feed. Make sure this is the case on your bike if you decide to do this mod. (If I AM mistaken, I may be burning out a remote the next time I go on a long night ride!)
With the wire exposed, I soldered the lead wires from the modified remote to those wires on the bike. Remember, you need to keep straight which is positive and which is negative or this is NOT going to work. (The negative wire on the remote goes to the battery ground wire on the bike.)
If I can solder, you can too, most likely!
Once I had the leads soldered into place, I taped up all the exposed solder joints with black electrician's tape. Then I found a place on the frame under the cowling where I could zip-tie the remote and viola! I'm done (except for putting it all together, of course).
I hit the high beam switch. Nothing happened. Dummy. You have to turn the bike on first. Turned the bike on and hit the switch again! Hey! It's working! The garage door started to rise. Hit the switch off, then on again and it stopped the door. A third time off and on and it closed the door.
This was soooooo, cool (to me, anyway) that I sat there playing with it for about 20 minutes. I think that was when the wiff came out to the garage and said, "What the he!!'s going on?" Now, of course, she's all over me to put it on her bike too!
LMAO
Put it all back together again, played with it some more and cleaned up! I noticed that if the high beam switch is "on" when you turn the key on, it will power the remote and open the garage door when you start the bike. Also kinda cool!
I just need the wiring diagram for the 06 Gixxer 1000. Anyone have it? I'm betting it's the same wire colors as the Busa but I don't know for certain.
This is soooooo, cool!
There are easier ways to do this but I don't care. I think this is the BEST way!
Best thing about this is that you don't have an active remote on your bike (it only works with the key in the "ON" position). Second best thing is, it's completely out of sight and unless you tell someone about it, they'll never know it's there.
Now I can open my garage door without having to hunt for a remote and without having to stop and search for it or even take my hands off the handlebars!
I'm easily amused and I have way too much time on my hands!
--Wag--
