ePowersteering.com kit for the Talon

[CID]

great great R&D, kudos, for the VSS, are you thinking just wire it up to the 400W unit and hope for the best?

asking here, is the Talon VSS signal DC pulses off one of the sensors? just a DC pros switch counting teeth?

Either tagging @PaulF or quoting him will send him an alert, better chance of him seeing your questions.

 

[DRZRon1]

thanks - so just add @PaulF?

 

[PaulF]

great great R&D, kudos, for the VSS, are you thinking just wire it up to the 400W unit and hope for the best?

asking here, is the Talon VSS signal DC pulses off one of the sensors? just a DC pros switch counting teeth?

The Talon has 6 speed sensors and one is a dedicated to VSS. It is a simple pulse circuit that is wired to several of the ECU's (including the OEM PS ECU) and the cluster and easy to tap into. I will use the signal originally wired to the OEM ECU and the new PS ECU "should" be able to read it. How it reacts is yet to be seen.

The PS warning light in the cluster is also simple. It is opposite (grounded to turn it off) so anyone can simply ground it after removing the stock ECU to turn the warning light off. The new ECU is grounded to turn it's warning LED on so a simple relay used in NC position (or a transistor for those electronically literate individuals) will make the dash light work with the new ECU if one wants to do it that way (the OCD in me is requiring me to wire the dash light to the new ECU).

Like I said earlier, I will start a new thread in the next couple days with a lot more detail and many pics.

 

[CID]

thanks - so just add @PaulF?

Yep, but note that sometimes it's pretty exacting. For instance @CID works but if I want to use @CID 's tag, I have to leave a space after D. It want's the exact username. The software will also auto fill in after @ and you can just click on the username you want when it shows up.

 

[Minner]

We have a 400w universal kit that'll do the trick. Never got around to designing mounting brackets and specific steering shafts for the Talon because we didn't see the need initially. If this is something I should address, we can make it happen.

For the universal kit, you'd just have to fab up your own mount and cut and weld the steering shafts in the kit, and the universal will work and save a ton of cash.

https://www.superatv.com/universal-power-steering-kit-380w

If you made the kit I would buy one tomorrow. Running an x4 35 sticky Zillas on 4” boxes with all the other addons too. The rocks make it unbearable at times, downhill is the worst.

 

[SuperATV]

If you made the kit I would buy one tomorrow. Running an x4 35 sticky Zillas on 4” boxes with all the other addons too. The rocks make it unbearable at times, downhill is the worst.

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I passed this whole thread on to the new product team and the big boss. Pretty sure its on the to-do list. Just not sure how long till we'll be able to piece it together and get a production kit. Probably not long. I'm betting we have all the components necessary. The only real manufacturing work will be the mounting brackets...and possibly the shafts if we don't have any that cross over.

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

and possibly the shafts if we don't have any that cross over.

Never EVER cross shafts.... 🤣

 

[Remington]

the shafts if we don't have any that cross over.

NoHomo 🤨 right? 🥳

 

[Georgiaboy]

A little off topic but I put the 400w ezsteer on my defender, like Paul said, when it showed up it was huge, made the steering light as a feather in my defender, absolutely no noise from it, works great to this day

 

[jonacombs]

Does anyone know if @PaulF started a new thread on his superatv PS install?