Rufus,Just for newbies ( like me ) I have just bought the Optimate4 BMW CanBus version (£69) and it arrived in the post yesterday. Read the instructions, plugged it into the CanBus socket and switched on. Bike was off BTW. It ‘woke’ the bike up itself, went through its cycles and after a couple of hours settled on two green lights . All good. I couldn’t get the BMW trickle charger for that price and availability seemed more difficult so went with the Optimate4 after taking advice on the forum. Very pleased with it. Happy R18 too. View attachment 6504
I've never heard of this product, VERY cool!
I guess I need to burn more hours perusing the forum for other cool random tech and toys for our bikes...
But, given this is also a "smart" charger like the BMW, my money is that it also has a CPU and software that's sending some code pulse down the 12v line to "wake" the CanBus line up. The trick for me to figure out how to capture that pulse and see if I can replicate it.
Clearly, Optimate did
Lastly, is it me, or does this picture look like something straight from a COSTCO ad? Maybe it's the colors.
Mike