Old 11-11-13 | 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Road Fan
Znomit: You mentioned a "a highly tuned DIY light." What does this mean? High current? Very large input or stand light capacitors? or what? I could imagine higher current causing more intense cogging.
It was a dual LED light tuned to drive the LEDs at 1A.
See here, Martin makes nice well behaved circuits but you can tune the capacitor values to give a big peak.
http://www.pilom.com/BicycleElectron...uits.htm#Boost
Think I only noticed it on smooth asphalt over a small speed range.

Oh, another one I made would vibrate… turned out my rectifier was only catching half the waves.
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