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Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« on: September 21, 2007, 02:09:20 PM »
The Electrosport units have been discussed elsewhere here so I took the plunge and ordered one of the 2700's without the fuel gauge. Phone ordering was easy and shipping was quick.

This seems to basically be a lower end electronic device, wiring is small and delicate. Instructions are limited and the English translation isn't clear. This is the kit not including the wiring, spark plug for size reference:



The speedo uses a fixed plastic sensor and a rotating magnet, shaped much like a bolt. I couldn't find a convenient place to mount either so I ended up making a bracket for the sensor and drilling a hole through the brake disc carrier.




I was initially a little disappointed with the small face size but now like how it's out of the way and unobtrusive. Another custom bracket to mount the unit. The small arm they provide with it wasn't long enough to mount anywhere useful.



From the front you don't even really notice it.


As for the function, rpm's are displayed in a digital bar graph and can be shown numerically across the bottom. It only displays rpm's in increments of 100's.


When the bike is turned on, the default display however is the tripmeter (1 of 2), so you have cycle through the mode button 4-5 clicks to get rpm's displayed numerically.

I plan to test the speedo against my GPS unit at some point but that's not the most precise comparison. It is reading double at times, one second it's 40mph, then it's 80. Most of the time it's stable and appears to be fairly accurate. The instructions say the sensor/magnet distance should be a maximum of 8mm, I have it at about 5mm.

I hooked up the left/right signals, neutral and high beam indicators and hooked the oil switch in to the unit's hazard light.

Also, the backlight is blue. This isn't an issue during the day but at night I'm bad with blue so it's almost unreadable to me. Overall, since it barely costs more than a good bicycle computer and has the tach capability plus warning lights, it's probably not a bad deal. You get what you pay for.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2007, 06:24:15 PM »
Looks nice.  How does the tach function?  Does it tap into one of the coil triggers?  Did you have a mechanical tach to compare it to?  It looks about right at idle.

Can you read it in direct sunlight? I wonder if that magnet being at a slight angle is throwing off your speedometer.

Did you order it through the Electrosport or Acewell site?  You've got me thinking I should ditch the Summit tach now.  How much for that model if you don't mind me asking?

Nice bike too.  Are those shocks from a ZRX?

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2007, 10:09:15 PM »
Looks nice.  How does the tach function?  Does it tap into one of the coil triggers?  Did you have a mechanical tach to compare it to?  It looks about right at idle.

Can you read it in direct sunlight? I wonder if that magnet being at a slight angle is throwing off your speedometer.

Did you order it through the Electrosport or Acewell site?  You've got me thinking I should ditch the Summit tach now.  How much for that model if you don't mind me asking?

Nice bike too.  Are those shocks from a ZRX?

The tach does tap in to one of the coil triggers. You can also wrap the tach wire around the plug wire and it will pick up the signal inductively, it didn't seem too stable when I tried that method. I took off my mechanical tach, didn't get a chance to compare.

Direct sunlight is great, no problems at all. And I'll probably be riding this bike very little at night anyway, so not a big deal for me with the backlighting.

I ordered over the phone from Electrosport, they don't seem to have an order page online. It's $119, http://www.electrosport.com/electrosport_speedo_2700.html.

Thanks, they are Kawi shocks, I think it was the ZRX.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2009, 08:00:05 PM »
I'm just starting to look into buying one of these Acewell 2800 combo gauges.  Model 2802 to be exact. 
They offer this speedo adapter and was wondering if it would work on a 1976 CB750K...

http://www.electrosport.com/products/product-detail-2077.php


Does anyone out there have a CRF or a Yamaha WR that we can compare speedometer cable to the CB???
If anything, the square drive inside the cable looks to be the same size that drives the stock CB speedo.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2009, 08:11:02 PM »
Also found this on another site.  It's a close up pic of the same adapter.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2010, 07:25:04 AM »
Buuuuump.

Anyone have any experience with the speedo adapter cable?
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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2010, 09:11:50 PM »
I dont think it will if its like the 78. This cable would hook into the speed sensor on the front wheel and for the 78 the bar comes out of that, not the cable, if I remember right from a year ago. But this cable might  http://www.electrosport.com/products/product-detail.php?products_id=1842  and as such I am looking at doing this with my 98 shadow spirit, if the cable looks right.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2010, 02:29:41 PM »
I dont think it will if its like the 78. This cable would hook into the speed sensor on the front wheel and for the 78 the bar comes out of that, not the cable, if I remember right from a year ago. But this cable might  http://www.electrosport.com/products/product-detail.php?products_id=1842  and as such I am looking at doing this with my 98 shadow spirit, if the cable looks right.

Any news on this yet? I am looking to do the same thing.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2010, 10:23:30 AM »
Also found this on another site.  It's a close up pic of the same adapter.


I've been thinking about ordering one of these myself, and the speedo cable has been my main hangup.  This is the first review of the function of the magnetic one I've seen, and it kind of scares me.  I was looking at the same cable to see if it would work...since I can order it with the universal and add one of those on for $10 just to have both, it would probably be worth it. 

It certainly looks like the same kind of fitting that my 1980 CB650C has...

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2010, 02:49:25 PM »
Ok. I ordered the Acewell 2853 from Electrosport today with the Honda/ BMW cable and the universal magnetic pickup unit. I garantee one of them will work! :)

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2010, 03:23:19 PM »
Ha!  Nice!  Let us know.  I really hope the Honda one works.  The model I want is sold out for the next 4-6 weeks, so you have that long to mount up that bad boy up and let us know.

\I wanted the 2803 - since my bike doesn't have a gas gauge or hazards, I figured I'd save the $30.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2010, 10:31:56 PM »
I'm thinking about getting one also. Let us know when it arrives.
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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2010, 09:58:46 PM »
  I have a couple of ideas as to why your speedo pickup isn't working right: First of all, I love the way you mounted the pickup- very clean. However, I think that the magnet isn't crossing the pickup perpendicularly; that is to say that that as the magnet passes the sensor it is sweeping across it at about a 45deg angle, I wouldn't expect this to cause a problem but it could. It would be easy enough to test, just bend the tang on your mounting bracket forward a little so the magnet sweeps right through the center at 90deg.
   The second thing is that I have never seen this style of pickup mounted so close to the hub; I have always seen them closer to the outside of the wheel. It looks like you are at about a 3" radius circle whereas most of the setups I've seen have it mounted closer to 6"-7" from the center, so it could be that the magnet isn't getting far enough away from the sensor when it goes around. The bike looks sweet without those bulky stock gauges though!

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2010, 07:23:04 PM »
Ok. I ordered the Acewell 2853 from Electrosport today with the Honda/ BMW cable and the universal magnetic pickup unit. I garantee one of them will work! :)

Any update on this?

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2010, 11:50:38 AM »
The problem with having only one trigger per wheel rev is update time and accuracy. The more triggers you can add,the better. My homebuilt unit counts spokes.
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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #15 on: October 02, 2011, 12:30:01 PM »
capn, where did you tie in to switched power and ground? i've tried mine but can't figure out how to get the power to the gauge in the center "run" position of the key switch but i can get it on in pos 1 & 3 which is useless.

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Re: Electrosport Acewell 2700 - review
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2013, 04:11:20 PM »
Did anyone ever figure out if the Honda Speedo Cable works with these gauges??
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