http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelite/

I like the battery holder/circuit board setup. Do you have any other web
pages on your light project?

Stephen R.

"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelite/

Don Foreman wrote:
http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelite/


Looking great Don!

I can't wait to see what you come up with for a charger for those Ni-MH
batteries. How about something hidden under the bike seat which will
turn the jiggles from daughter's rides over those Gotham potholes into
electricity? Maybe along the lines of those "shake me" flashlights?

The last line of the page you posted leaves me wondering:

"I'm down to the short strokes now. Tomorrow I'll assemble the
flasher elex board which is also a disc that will be just above the
contact board."

Because I never learned whether "short strokes" was intended to refer to
the game of golf or the game of love. (Crude references to holes are not
required.) G

Happy and Safe New Year!

Jeff
--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in public
schools"

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:47:39 GMT, "S R" no email @ no spam.com
wrote:

I like the battery holder/circuit board setup. Do you have any other web
pages on your light project?

There's another page at
http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelight_mount/

The light is a red Luxeon 1-watt LED: very bright. It compares
favorably with the 1157 brake/turn light on my truck. It will flash
about 3 times a second.

On 2004-12-30 01:58:26 -0500, Don Foreman
said:

http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelite/

Looks nice. One nice bike light / generator system I've seen is he
www.peterwhitecycles.com/schmidt-lumotec.asp

But, it sure is expensive. One of the local riders here in
Charlottesville brought one of the hub generators into the bike shop
where I hang out. It sure was nice, beautifully machined, but yikes,
probably $500 before you have a decent system that works.

chas morrill

Don Foreman wrote:

http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelite/
Nice job!

Martin

--
Martin Eastburn, Barbara Eastburn
@ home at Lion's Lair with our computer
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Thanks for the info.. Don,

Stephen R.


"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:47:39 GMT, "S R" no email @ no spam.com
wrote:

I like the battery holder/circuit board setup. Do you have any other web
pages on your light project?

There's another page at
http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelight_mount/

The light is a red Luxeon 1-watt LED: very bright. It compares
favorably with the 1157 brake/turn light on my truck. It will flash
about 3 times a second.

"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:47:39 GMT, "S R" no email @ no spam.com
wrote:

I like the battery holder/circuit board setup. Do you have any other web
pages on your light project?

There's another page at
http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelight_mount/

The light is a red Luxeon 1-watt LED: very bright. It compares
favorably with the 1157 brake/turn light on my truck. It will flash
about 3 times a second.


For visibility at night (in the dark, not in well lit places like city
streets) it's not so much BRIGHT that you want but BIG. Get that watt of
LED spread out over 12 square inches or so (25 cheap hi-brightness LED's)
and people will both see it and be able to judge the distance to it from
much farther away.

How about a rotating equilateral triangle with 8" sides - make it with
blades so air passing through makes it spin...everybody will notice that.

"jtaylor" wrote in message
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"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:47:39 GMT, "S R" no email @ no spam.com
wrote:

I like the battery holder/circuit board setup. Do you have any other
web
pages on your light project?

There's another page at
http://www.goldengate.net/~dforeman/bikelight_mount/

The light is a red Luxeon 1-watt LED: very bright. It compares
favorably with the 1157 brake/turn light on my truck. It will flash
about 3 times a second.


For visibility at night (in the dark, not in well lit places like city
streets) it's not so much BRIGHT that you want but BIG. Get that watt of
LED spread out over 12 square inches or so (25 cheap hi-brightness LED's)
and people will both see it and be able to judge the distance to it from
much farther away.

How about a rotating equilateral triangle with 8" sides - make it with
blades so air passing through makes it spin...everybody will notice that.

The picture of the light that I've seen clearly shows a lens well made to
diffuse the light in a wide arc. I can't help but think it will do exactly
what you propose, or very nearly so, when viewed from afar. Don has given
this project considerable thought and expended an equal amount of effort,
right down to making a mold to make the lens. Can't wait to see it
completed. I think he hit a winner.

Harold

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:40:27 -0400, "jtaylor"
wrote:

For visibility at night (in the dark, not in well lit places like city
streets) it's not so much BRIGHT that you want but BIG.

Size does count. That's why the molded lens. The bare LED looked
like a pinhole into hell and was difficult to localize. With the
lens, it is instantly visible (as in attention-grabbing) when I come
around a curve in the street 200 yards distant.