Audiovox cruise diagnostic LED notes

[apratt]

I just finished installing an Audiovox CCS-100 cruise control in my 04 ABS. I used a bunch of great info from Arlen Bloom and others that I'd printed out and saved for this day. Anybody contemplating this farkle should absolutely get, print, read, and understand those instructions.

I learned something new, though, once I got it working: there is an LED inside the main CCS-100 unit that you can use to tell (1) whether your switch wiring is working, and (2) whether your VSS hookup is good. If the setup is right, the LED will blink slowly at idle and blink faster when you rev the engine. This only works after you've turned "on" the cruise - but you don't have to engage it for this test to work.

Here's another item that's missing from Arlen Bloom's original 2003 instructions: the black wire from the switch housing goes to ground, and the gray wire should go to switched power. Any switched power will do - you don't have to run it to your turn signals / running lights. The gray wire controls the backlight LEDs inside the switch housing, and the manual says to connect that wire to your running lights on the theory that they come on with your headlights - that is, only at night. But on a motorcycle there's no difference between the running lights and any other switched power.

Finally, at least on my '04 ABS, the proper wire to tap from the coil is the gray one, not the red one.

I've put this and a little more info on a new Audiovox page on my web site. See it at www.bestbits.org/audiovox_cruise.htm

I should have provided the links: the Arlen Bloom article is at https://www.fjr1300.info/howto/audiovox.html and good supplemental info is at this thread: https://www.fjrowners.ws/discus/messages/9/...html?1106926223 and also the post by Saluda here: https://www.fjrowners.ws/forum/messages/217...html?1046747045

 

[kaitsdad]

I learned something new, though, once I got it working: there is an LED inside the main CCS-100 unit that you can use to tell (1) whether your switch wiring is working, and (2) whether your VSS hookup is good. If the setup is right, the LED will blink slowly at idle and blink faster when you rev the engine. This only works after you've turned "on" the cruise - but you don't have to engage it for this test to work.

apratt,

Thanks for the information. I've just finished installing mine on my 06A -

I have voltages where they are supposed to be - as per the installation guide -and it will not engage.

However, my LED will only blink in one pattern - 4 blinks in 1 second, follwed by a 1 second pause. Then repeats. Do you have any idea what this might mean? I'm stumped.

TIA

 

[apratt]

I have voltages where they are supposed to be - as per the installation guide -and it will not engage.
However, my LED will only blink in one pattern - 4 blinks in 1 second, follwed by a 1 second pause. Then repeats. Do you have any idea what this might mean? I'm stumped.

Sorry, no idea. That is clearly different from the pattern I saw, and it sure sounds like a diagnostic code. The instructions from Audiovox included a phone number you can call for installation support. Don't tell them you installed it on a motorcycle though, they might not want to talk to you. Just ask what that blink pattern means.

Also, check my web page again for a new, much simpler wiring system that Jeff Delzer (dbx here on fjrforum) first described. See https://www.bestbits.org/audiovox_cruise.htm ... you might do what I did, and rip out your old wiring in favor of the new even if you already had it installed the old way.