Re: [ST] green light trigger

[Lex Offer <reffoxel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually weight has nothing to do with it.  Most on demand lights work on this principle.  They bury basically metal detectors in the asphalt.  When a large enough mass of metal passes over the metal detector and stays there for a certain amount of time it triggers a greenlight.  Since Motorcycles in general (especially ours) are made of more and more aluminum, they don't tend to set off the trigger.  So the idea is to put something on the bike that puts out a magnetic signature similar to that of a large mass of metal.  The Greenlight Trigger is just a permanent magnet that you attach to the bottom of the bike so that when you pass over the metal detectors they would sense a magnetic signature similar to that of a car.  It's a sound idea but my guess is you'd need such a powerful magnet to similate the mass of a car that you'd also end up picking up quite a bit of metal road debris also.  Course that might be a good thing.  nails and bolts stuck to the bottom of your bike i!
nstead
 of in the tire.

At 05:22 PM 12/27/02 -0600, you wrote:
>We kicked this around in 2000 or sometime. The consensus was they don't 
>work, that you'd be just as well driving around with a cement block tied to 
>your ST. IIRC, someone said the block might just be more effective since it 
>weighs more than the 'tripper.' I have personally not tried the product.
>
>John Petrey
>Apex Dawg
>Red '00 ST
>Guntersville, Alabama

Lex "Digital Dawg" Offer
reffoxel@xxxxxxxxxxx
2000 A Green Sprint ST (but not BRG)
1986 VF1000 F-2 Bol d'Or
San Antonio, Texas

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