Thread: Oil temp gauge for R1100S

If you care to vist my post again, I have added more info to the thread prior to this post. I am curious about your LCD gauge. Lascar (emt1900). Can you point me to a more info on this? I am in South Africa (Cape Town), and this type of thing is not as readily available here. My thought was to use a BMW RID, but a single possibly smaller dedicated LCD gauge for temp would be even better from a mounting point of view. Thanks.

i bought it from newark.com, big electronics supplier, i have installed one of their voltage displays and it work reasonable well except the lascar stuff has a refresh rate of 3 times per second , should be every 2-5 seconds, the lascar emt1900 wants an input from a 10 ohm NTC ,

That lascar module looks like a good, simple and cheap solution to the problem..thanks 850dunstall!!! See Matabel what a great pool of knowledge we have here on Pelican!

Is this interesting? Oil Temp Gauge and Sender for BMW R-Series Bikes Sweet!:eBay Motors (item 200404713707 end time Nov-20-09 19:51:57 PST)

Being that my BCR is the first air-cooled cycle I've owned in many years, I still can't get used to NOT looking at the temp gauge and every now-and-then I find my self looking at the instrument cluster trying to find the gauge (only for a fraction of a second or two!). In spite of my curiosity of what the engine/oil temp is, I figure BMW is smarter than I and they felt a temp gauge just isn't necessary. Therefore, I don't...

Sounds like a bad idea to me. geo

JDuke - That is what I was using back in the 70's when I had a 75/5 with an S fairing and one gauge in the dash was for oil temperature (the other opening was for a bong - hey, I'm jus' kiding). The brass plug you see replaces the standard drain plug. Run the sending wire bundle up to the gauge and connect. For a hole-in-the-dash placement, a U shaped bracket in the back tightens everything up. On the R1100S I imagine two...

That whole wire/gauge/drain plug deal sounds so 1970s. This is the modern era. I am sure you can find a digital display that does not quite fit anywhere on the bike, that would communicate with the drain plug via some wireless technology, perhaps bluetooth. You would also receive satellite radio stations, and listen to pod casts of your favorite old time radio showes. Of couse it would not work very well, and the manual would be poorly...

Quote: Originally Posted by Matabele I await a flood of response..... The utility of an oil temperature gauge on an air cooled engine with an oil cooler is....I'm not sure. You don't specify where you live but unless you live in a particularly hot zone, I don't think an oil temperature gauge is necessary. What is your area and riding environment? Unless you are stuck in traffic stop & go during high ambient...

THe BMW scan tool reads oil temp. No for sure on 05S, but that would seem another way to access that data. Well of course we have to find something we can mount that reads it. Guess we could duct tape the scanner to the bars. If oil temp is a real concern then maybe just some heat tape placed in a couple of good areas would show you what you need to know after a particularly hard and hot ride.