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    Electric Lights - connected to VLCD 5 ontroller or direct to battery

    Just checked - my favourite Solarstorm twin cree light draws 2.3A on full power. Way too much demand, I'd reckon for a USB port (mine is powered by a separate Li battery, which needs a separate charger ).
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    Electric Lights - connected to VLCD 5 ontroller or direct to battery

    Oh yes, forgot about that. Right underneath the unit, covered by a rubber bung. Woosh, d'you reckon that will only be powered if the VLCD5 has been turned on ?
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    Electric Lights - connected to VLCD 5 ontroller or direct to battery

    One more point to consider: almost all USB connectors are in-line - the plug will stick out several cms from your battery's USB port. Looking at the photos of where your battery is located on your boom, I'd be concerned about that arrangement getting knocked / damaged.
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    Electric Lights - connected to VLCD 5 ontroller or direct to battery

    N.B. Before you head down the USB powered route......check your battery's USB output actually works. Why ? Well, some of the Hailong-type (HL) battery pack have a USB port, but no internal electronic circuitry between the port and the battery output. If you have the VLCD5, and a splitter on...
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    Hase Ketwiessel Recumbent Trike - TSDZ2 install - part completed

    I would suppose the 42T stock chainring on the TSDZ2 was chosen to match the drive gearing on a 26" rear wheel ? To my knowledge, the most common highest gear would be an 11T (the smallest sprocket on a cassette or freewheel cluster). With some of us not using 26" - 700c (e.g. 20" drive...
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    VLCD5 display - night ride, with lights, without backlit display ?

    After a few days wait the orders from Ebay have arrived - 2 pieces of polarizer film (I found the least expensive film supplier, listed as APPLE Ipad Air 2 Polarizer Film) and 1 x sample of window tint film (CAR WINDOW TINT AUTO TINTING FILM LIMO BLACK DARK MEDIUM LIGHT ULTRA LIGHT, 20% Dark...
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    VLCD5 display - night ride, with lights, without backlit display ?

    I'm trying to avoid any additional wiring, and keep the simplicity of the VLCD5 controlling the lights. There are two solutions I'm testing, one with a sheet of polarising film (two pieces cut, to overlap each other, but slightly rotated - how much rotation depending on how much light I want to...
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    VLCD5 display - night ride, with lights, without backlit display ?

    Maybe. Maybe just a little more water with it ?
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    VLCD5 display - night ride, with lights, without backlit display ?

    I think this has slipped into the wrong thread ??????
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    VLCD5 display - night ride, with lights, without backlit display ?

    I think the tinted screen add-on may be the simplest option. Just put in place for night rides. My screen is the VLCD5 (below), rather than the XH-18 Display that I think you have, Peter.c) and whilst it is as clear as daylight (in daylight), it doesn't invert to white on black (which would be...
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    VLCD5 display - night ride, with lights, without backlit display ?

    I took my newly TSDZ2-converted Raleigh out for an hour last night, with nice new front and rear lights wired into the VLCD5 display unit. It works perfectly......but the backlit display was on for the whole time. With it being pitch black here in the countryside, the constant light thrown up...
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    For Sale NEW CLASSIFIEDS SYSTEM - PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

    Unfortunately, my listing can only be seen by me, as an "activity". When I look at the listing of items in the classfied section, it is not listed.
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    TSDZ2 throttle kit - but not fitting brake levers ?

    Thanks Woosh, that's good news. For the TSDZ2 controller, is the connection from the brake sensor normally, open, closed, or is it just a momentary pulse when levers are pulled ? And the hydraulic brake sensors you link to - I'm presuming I will need to splice them into the connectors for the...
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    TSDZ2 throttle kit - but not fitting brake levers ?

    Does anyone have experience of this ? I plan to fit a Tongsheng CD throttle kit to a recumbent where the brakes are Magura Julie hydraulic disks on the rear, and Magura HS33 on the front wheel (it's a Hase Lepus delta trike). I want to fit the TSDZ2 throttle kit, but I am happy with the...
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    Hase Ketwiessel Recumbent Trike - TSDZ2 install - part completed

    :cool: Great to read of your progress so far, and if you can share some photos at some point, even better. I am particularly interested in your solution to the Tongsheng unit getting in the way of the Kett's steerer - is your new "45 degree bends" aluminium tube making a detour above or below...