preserving settings when battery is removed

[rmsppu]

Why, Triumph, why?!

For the cost of maybe $0.05, you could have used NVRAM or a supercapacitor to keep settings (trip odometers, rider aid preferences, date & time, trip meter reset preferences, etc) when the battery is removed.

All that is lost with any interruption in power.

Is anyone putting a 12v power source (8x AA batteries, or 2x AA + 1x 9V, etc) in parallel with the bike battery during maintenance, so that the bike battery can be disconnected (ie, to add wiring) without losing the various settings?

[NiK]

Originally Posted by rmsppu

Why, Triumph, why?!

Because the vast majority of our customer don't even know what you're talking about and, therefore, don't care.
We make bikes to sell lots of them and make the most possible money while spending the less possible energy.
Just like EVERYONE else around.

Please you advanced users stay among yourselves on forums like this very one, and let we millionaires become billionaires ;-)



Seriously though, you're perfectly right. Even the lousiest Chinese cheapo crappy game console around has nvram in it. However, retrofitting some into your Tiger would prove way beyond most people's abilities (and I'm not saying that because my family confiscated my soldering iron years ago ;-).

[Mumm-Ra]

it clearly has some non-volatile storage because it can remember devices, the rider name etc..

the "why" should be more like why did they pick certain things at the exclusion of others.

I guess it's because very little real-world rider input went into the bike, which is how you end up with a design for cell phones plugged in under the pillion seat and bluetooth'd to a horrible app, but no accessory power in the nose or a sane mounting point for GPS.

[BasilB]

Originally Posted by Mumm-Ra

it clearly has some non-volatile storage because it can remember devices, the rider name etc..

the "why" should be more like why did they pick certain things at the exclusion of others.

I guess it's because very little real-world rider input went into the bike, which is how you end up with a design for cell phones plugged in under the pillion seat and bluetooth'd to a horrible app, but no accessory power in the nose or a sane mounting point for GPS.

At least it's not like the multistrada phone hatch that is only big enough for a nokia 8210 lol

There is accessory power in the nose with power all the time. It's a din socket though which some people don't like.