Indeed, that looks like a nice nifty set up without the stalks

Looks fairly straight forward to retrofit. I would interested in a group buy.

Looks like a neat bit of kit, shame he hasn't incorporated a hazard light function from a single switch too though.

Just for grins I went ahead and added a special "hazard" function to the program. Now if you press and hold the switch in either direction for more than two seconds it turns the hazards on. Pressing the switch again in any direction turns them off. Simple enough.

It's just a 'free' feature and doesn't impact operation of a dedicated hazard flasher switch-- so it's safe to ignore it entirely if it doesn't fit in with your requirements.

I'll probably have the main circuit boards finished up this week. Cases and labels are done already.

Here's a question for you-- what would be best for you guys as far as how you'll mount the sensor? For the Atom 2 I have a little custom circuit board that bolts on to a particular spot near the steering wheel shaft and positions the sensor just right. The sensor itself is just a little three-legged electronic component, so it could either be mounted to a circuit board or have wires directly connected, etc. I was thinking of just having sort of a 'generic' circuit board that the sensor attaches to (to make it easy to handle) and then you can cut/shape/glue/grind/manipulate it in whatever manner makes sense for mounting in your cars.

(Just to recap-- the kit includes three small magnets that attach to your steering wheel shaft. One magnet marks the wheel position when the wheel is straight ahead and the other two mark how far you need to turn the wheel in order for the signal to 'cancel' when it comes back to the center. That way you can make it more or less sensitive to suit your needs just by where you put the magnets.)

The sensor just needs to be within maybe ~1cm or so of the magnets to be able to sense them as they pass by as the wheel is turned. The magnets are strong little suckers (neodymium) 8mm x 6mm x 1.5mm thick and nickle plated. You could use other magnets too-- I just selected these since they seemed small enough to be easy to mount and strong enough to work even from a distance.

I think you might find a sensible marker for this on most kit car sights. I want one for my 7.

I don't understand why some creative and enterprising soul hasn't already developed a turn stalk for the Ultima in all these years. And I don't mean the "go to the junk yard and cobble some parts" stuff...I'm talking true plug and play. There's gotta be a market for those things. Heck....I'll buy one whenever it's available.

This is my solution. I have swapped a small circuit-board (own design) which is simply clicked into place.
The board has eight solder contacts for:

1) +12 V
Outputs:
2) Indicator left
3) Indicator right
4) Fog
5) Sidelight
6) Low beam
7) High beam
8) Flasher

Steering wheel canceling could be realized relatively simply by attaching a small angle to the hub.


Mounted stalk
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Very unfair comment, have you picked up the phone and spoken to the lads? My AB stalks are in fabrication at the moment AB don't actually market them, they're strickly a by enquiry product, due to the options available and the time taken to build them. Each set is completly custom, like a lot of their products which are generally one-offs.

If you want to see what a set look like, go back to their website and look at the yellow Can Am "Project" car. Better still, call them.