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Old 30th August 2007, 18:36
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I don't want to add more reflectors to the front as I want the whole setup to look like there's no whole setup - hence embedding the LEDs into the reflectors.

The thought of two separate lights, one pointing forward & one pointing down, had crossed my mind but that would mean getting hold of another reflector & somehow fitting it onto the bike so it looked like it was meant to be there and not an added accessory.

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing (why can't someone invent the opposite equivilant? ), because if I'd really thought about it I would have drilled some of the LED holes at a 15degree downward angle so I could have high & low beams through a switch. But, when I wired up the front LEDs I put 5 of them on a separate circuit so they can be turned off/on separately from the other 12 (the center one and 4 on the corners which you can see the legs of in the below picture), which would act as a high/low beam setup with the right switching arrangement (5 shining in your face isn't very bad at all, all 17 is though)

For the moment I've set it up so all 17 will be switched on/off with one switch as there's not enough space inside the plastic box for a 2nd switch and the 3 position switch I do have is no good, it can be easily accidentally switched off with a little knock of the lever.

A couple of pics of the initial LED leg wiring, the ground legs are flattened down and all attached together, the positive legs are bent over a few mm above the ground legs so they're not touching:



The whole lot will be 'encased' by using a glue gun as it'll cover everything and make it hopefully very waterproof, then sprayed or painted black so the light doesn't come out the back.
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