chunkygoat
Member
Well I been working on this for a couple of weeks now and I'm officially content where its at.
I know people's opinions about this vary, but in my eyes, at night time - anything to help you be seen more is just an additional countermeasure to prevent any accidents - PLUS I think it adds a different aura to the bike.
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So I built my own LED kit because I wanted one and I didn't want to pay 100$+ for a kit. I go to school for electronics, and I figured what better way to implement all this new knowledge than by building a basic LED kit.
It actually took a lot longer than I anticipated. I could have saved myself a lot of time, but I chose the from scratch route which gives me a certain satisfaction. I did everything. I assembled all the wires, and heat shrinked them. I researched various LED's and information about their specs, light dispersion, viewing angles, and current and voltage ratings. I also utilized simple 8-pin IC sockets as mounting pods for 4 LED's each pod.
I siliconed anything exposed, electric taped, and heat shrinked around it for heat and water protection. I bought designed, and used a kit to make my own circuit board. I designed it, laid the traces out, drilled the holes, and built the circuit board to fit snug in a project box housing I had bought. I bought all the components, wired them, soldered them to the HMCB (homemade circuit board? ). I installed a double pull double throw switch I had laying around, a dimmer (pot), and a 1amp fuse. Then I went with silicon on the inside of the box to waterproof it.
I installed everything and it works great. I think it looks terrific. I left it on for almost 5 hours and the bike started up right away. It took me a long time to build this all - but it was fun and I'm happy how it turned out.
What do you all think of it?
By the way, I still have lots of spare materials and in some free time maybe I would consider building another one if anybody is interested - feel free to message me.
I know people's opinions about this vary, but in my eyes, at night time - anything to help you be seen more is just an additional countermeasure to prevent any accidents - PLUS I think it adds a different aura to the bike.
View attachment 44695 View attachment 44696
So I built my own LED kit because I wanted one and I didn't want to pay 100$+ for a kit. I go to school for electronics, and I figured what better way to implement all this new knowledge than by building a basic LED kit.
It actually took a lot longer than I anticipated. I could have saved myself a lot of time, but I chose the from scratch route which gives me a certain satisfaction. I did everything. I assembled all the wires, and heat shrinked them. I researched various LED's and information about their specs, light dispersion, viewing angles, and current and voltage ratings. I also utilized simple 8-pin IC sockets as mounting pods for 4 LED's each pod.
I siliconed anything exposed, electric taped, and heat shrinked around it for heat and water protection. I bought designed, and used a kit to make my own circuit board. I designed it, laid the traces out, drilled the holes, and built the circuit board to fit snug in a project box housing I had bought. I bought all the components, wired them, soldered them to the HMCB (homemade circuit board? ). I installed a double pull double throw switch I had laying around, a dimmer (pot), and a 1amp fuse. Then I went with silicon on the inside of the box to waterproof it.
I installed everything and it works great. I think it looks terrific. I left it on for almost 5 hours and the bike started up right away. It took me a long time to build this all - but it was fun and I'm happy how it turned out.
What do you all think of it?
By the way, I still have lots of spare materials and in some free time maybe I would consider building another one if anybody is interested - feel free to message me.