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Hey engineering nerds
« on: May 08, 2010, 02:36:47 PM »
Question... since my retro-directe is sort of a post modern re-creation... I'm just casually looking at lights.

If I were to say acquire the housing for a fender mount light... something like this...


How easy would it be to convert it to use batteries (maybe instead of the generator) and run some sort of LED system? Maybe even an LED system that has different modes or something?
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2010, 05:33:57 PM »
Might be easiest to replace everything inside with parts from an LED lamp and add an external switch (which would probably be the hard part). 
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2010, 08:20:29 PM »
Could make it flash and have a solid mode or flash mode :D
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2010, 12:31:05 AM »
Yeah that's what I meant. Run everything on the inside "modern" and just have the "retro" shell? Dave... what sort of costs would you fathom?
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2010, 09:46:12 AM »
Batteries:  a couple bucks
LED lamp:  4 or 5 bucks?
Other parts:  maybe 3 bucks
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2010, 12:06:15 PM »
Hmmmm
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2010, 05:20:42 PM »
beak'll do it for free

and I'll watch!
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Re: Hey engineering nerds
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2010, 05:22:07 PM »
also I picked up a car stereo head unit the other day if anyone wants to make their own portable boom box, it is free to the 1st person. you just need speakers and a 12V battery
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