Compacting Part 5 – Installation of new system

Compacting Part 5 – Installation of new system

It took a bit of effort with the BLS connectors.  Once I got the hang of it, the rest of the setup went along fine.  First I started out with putting the BLS connector and new wire on the battery pack.  I attempted to source some wire at DataPros here in Seattle, but they didn’t offer it.  So, I decided to hit the scrap heap and found an old stereo cord that did the trick.  Shirk wrapping the connector ends…

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Compacting Part 4 – Steps to make it happen

Compacting Part 4 – Steps to make it happen

The install steps shouldn’t be too involving.  It will be comprised of 4 components, these being: Headlamp with 3 wire conductor to a BLS housing. Handlebar momentary switch with 2 wire conductor to a BLS housing. Handlebar battery pack with a 2 wire conductor to a BLS housing. BLS housing jumper. I’ll need to make a few modifications to the headlamp and battery pack.  The jumper will need to be made.  The handlebar switch will be the easiest part of…

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Compacting Part 3 – Proposed new method

Compacting Part 3 – Proposed new method

Proposed new method After going through the setup a few times with drawings of the layout, it became clear that simple was better.  The original setup had so many features.  This equated to so many parts.  To redo the same setup seemed insane.  I didn’t want to get locked into commiting tons of effort and time.  The simple approach also had to be expandable.  Another words, I would want the ability to add the features back without changing what I…

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