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Old 08-23-06 | 12:22 PM
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Bikes: Iron Horse Triumph, Schwinn Moab2 Steel

My geekiness

time for me to post my results. I used the information found here and at http://nordicgroup.us/s78/ to build my system. I found a set of driving lights at Wal-mart for $25 and ordered the Vector Pocket Power for a battery. I got a electrical box at Radioshack $5 and 3 led switches at autozone $15. Also at autozone was the 2" led behive tail light for $10. Using some aluminum 1"x1/4" stock that I had, I made a mount to attach to my aero bars. I found out that the tail light would fit nicely inside a paint can lid. I took the lid from a can of black paint that I had recently used and cut the sides down until it was just as deep as the light. Unscrewed the reflector that came with my bike and screwed the paint lid instead. Glued the light to the lid, and presto a nice looking tail light. A little wiring and cutting to fit the switches to the box and I was done. I replaced the 50watt bulbs that came stock in the lights with a 20 watt flood and a 20 watt spot. I used the rest of the aluminum stock to fabricate a battery holder after the water bottle cage that I was using to hold the batter broke. I really like the system but in the futuer would like to get a higher capacitance 13.2 V NiMH battery like this. I would also like to get the 20 watt phillips high efficiency bulbs like this and this. And now for the pictures. Click the link to get the larger image.
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