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Old 01-11-12, 06:55 AM
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CaptCarrot
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Sorry if I am being thick, but I don't understand why you brought tilt switches into the conversation.

If you are talking about modding a current rear light, that might explain it, but I don't see how a tilt switch would work. Although having said that, there ARE accelerometer based brake lights out there - check out this thread that I started 2 years ago.

I have thought about making a brake light mod to a dynamo before, but always stumbled at the same hurdle - how to actuate it. In the end, I decided the simplest and easiest method would be either micro-switches to bypass a limiting resistor or potentiometers to vary the brightness even more depending on how harsh the braking was. The problem I found was that the switches would have to be on both brakes to be effective, and single lever dual action brakes are rare. So I gave up.
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