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…
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…
The step of clearing the way for the revamp didn’t take much time at all. More effort was put into preparing the workspace and placing the bike. All the device and control cables terminated at a project box, located under the handlebar headlamp. Since the control cluster, brake sensor, and momentary switch were going to stay, I just decided to cut the cables as close to the project box as possible. The cable mess was worse than I remembered. It…