While still maintaining that I would never buy such a thing regardless of price ... From the purely technical point of view, I have some questions for the original poster to mull over.
1. Fault-tolerance. What happens if something goes wrong? What happens if the actuator loses power for some reason? The common sense thing to do is to provide the standard manual method of operating the kickstand. (And if that's the case, and a manual method of operating the kickstand is necessary anyway, what's the point? But I digress.)
2. What happens if the operator presses the button at the wrong time, while the bike is moving? It will need an interlock to the vehicle speed in some way so that this can not occur. And with that ... see point 1. If it's interlocked so that it can only operate in neutral or with the clutch pulled in, what happens if the operator does this while the bike is still moving? If it's interlocked to the vehicle speed sensor, what happens if the VSS fails, and gives a zero speed indication even though the bike is actually moving?
3. What happens if someone operates the kickstand with the ignition switched off? Easy fix ... only let it operate with the ignition switched on. But then ... what happens if one wishes to move the bike around the garage without the key being turned on? Again, it's necessary to have the standard manual method of operating the kickstand in order to address this. And this again begs the question ... what's the point of the whole thing?
(by the way, my "real job" involves its fair share of technical risk-assessment and FMEA - failure mode effects analysis ...)
1. Fault-tolerance. What happens if something goes wrong? What happens if the actuator loses power for some reason? The common sense thing to do is to provide the standard manual method of operating the kickstand. (And if that's the case, and a manual method of operating the kickstand is necessary anyway, what's the point? But I digress.)
2. What happens if the operator presses the button at the wrong time, while the bike is moving? It will need an interlock to the vehicle speed in some way so that this can not occur. And with that ... see point 1. If it's interlocked so that it can only operate in neutral or with the clutch pulled in, what happens if the operator does this while the bike is still moving? If it's interlocked to the vehicle speed sensor, what happens if the VSS fails, and gives a zero speed indication even though the bike is actually moving?
3. What happens if someone operates the kickstand with the ignition switched off? Easy fix ... only let it operate with the ignition switched on. But then ... what happens if one wishes to move the bike around the garage without the key being turned on? Again, it's necessary to have the standard manual method of operating the kickstand in order to address this. And this again begs the question ... what's the point of the whole thing?
(by the way, my "real job" involves its fair share of technical risk-assessment and FMEA - failure mode effects analysis ...)