Hello, I am installing the K5 to my new bike. But I am going to purchase the healtech thunderbox. How do I connect the K5 to it. The 2 power lines I understand but where to put the 3th wire ?
O, just one question more about connecting to Thunderbox . You can put the wire in 2 connections in which one do I connect the yellow: the black connector or the other one?🤔
I don't own a Thunderbox, so all of my informations are based on the manual and technical descriptions. Based on that, you have to connect the yellow wire to the green wire of the Thunderbox
Thanks, that is a clear answer. Going to test it in a few days and keep you posted if it works like you said. Installing it on my bike will be a Day job. The older unit is more instal friendly but then again is has the better videoquality. 😎
....so that box handles the connection that the yellow wire supposed to do.
No, it does not. The yellow cable "tells" the K5 when to start or shut down. To do this, the yellow cable needs to be connected to switch power. Thats because the K5 needs around 10 sec to do a proper shutdown.
In your case, the Thunderbox delivers the switched power. So you would need to connect the red and black cables to the battery and the yellow cable to the Thunderbox.
If you would connect the red cable to the Thunderbox, it would switch off power before the K5 had finished (or even initialized) its shutdown, which may result in corrupted videos files or file system.
Thanks , but that is not a answer. I need to know where to connect the yellow cable if I am using a healtech Thunderbox because that box handles the power supply . It only gives power when the bike is running so that box handles the connection that the yellow wire supposed to do. So where do I connect the wire instead? Help needed here, regards Ronnie
Hello, Ronnie, if you want to connect the yellow wire in the thunderbox, you can connect both yellow and red wire to the positive part, and black wire to the negative output of the Thunderbox, but in this case, there will be no park mode, and the file should be in TS file rather than MP4 file.
Hello, congratulations for getting a new bike, you can connnect the black cable to the negative pole of the box, and the red cable goes to the postive pole of the box, the yellow cable, you need to connect it to a ACC point of the bike.
O, just one question more about connecting to Thunderbox . You can put the wire in 2 connections in which one do I connect the yellow: the black connector or the other one?🤔
Thanks, that is a clear answer. Going to test it in a few days and keep you posted if it works like you said. Installing it on my bike will be a Day job. The older unit is more instal friendly but then again is has the better videoquality. 😎
Hi Ronnie,
....so that box handles the connection that the yellow wire supposed to do.No, it does not. The yellow cable "tells" the K5 when to start or shut down. To do this, the yellow cable needs to be connected to switch power. Thats because the K5 needs around 10 sec to do a proper shutdown.
In your case, the Thunderbox delivers the switched power. So you would need to connect the red and black cables to the battery and the yellow cable to the Thunderbox.
If you would connect the red cable to the Thunderbox, it would switch off power before the K5 had finished (or even initialized) its shutdown, which may result in corrupted videos files or file system.
Thanks , but that is not a answer. I need to know where to connect the yellow cable if I am using a healtech Thunderbox because that box handles the power supply . It only gives power when the bike is running so that box handles the connection that the yellow wire supposed to do. So where do I connect the wire instead? Help needed here, regards Ronnie
Hello, congratulations for getting a new bike, you can connnect the black cable to the negative pole of the box, and the red cable goes to the postive pole of the box, the yellow cable, you need to connect it to a ACC point of the bike.
Thanks.