neat remote, I like how you put the stat led next to the switch. It’s always good to see different approaches to remotes. I’m going to try and incorporate my next one into the brake lever clamp to reduce the reach, not quite sure how yet.
Okay, so I did get that awesome taskled b3flex driver on friday. Was very psyched to continue with this project.
I measured correct places for leds on pill and put those together with adhesive
Then on otherside of pill I soldered led wires to driver
So far everything was perfect. Then I soldered all other wires to driver and fastened it to body. Tested it with 4S1P battery pack. IT SHINES!!
Light started up nicely. After little configuration for driver everyting was setup for this light. When I had been playing with light for a while i noticed that it does not go OFF correctly, two out off three leds had some “moonlight” dim going on while light should have been off. So there had to be same leak to body that this could happen. At this point I should just have let it be like that, since it was pretty minor. BUT I want to make everything work perfectly, so I opened light again. I did found out that while I fastened the pill there was wires that contacted the body. I should have done pill little differently, but I did not want to make that again. So I started to make little modifications to … hmm … everything. After many bad decisions, too many hours, too little food and one angry wife later this is what happened
So I as you can imagine the light won’t start up again. I spoiled driver. Luckily driver was only one that got destroyed in this mess. Basicly everything gone to hell with this project in past two days.
Well… there is really nothing more to do now than clean up, learn from mistakes and order new driver. Atleast now I know what I should do and what I should not do (If you want to try find some good things about this). :~
Not my weekend.
BUUT tomorrow is new years eve and it’s time to relax. I wish all fellow members a very good new year!
I love it! You need a trash can right next to the table. I have a trash can about 15’ away, so I can do basketball shots into it, with my mistakes!
It really is a beautiful build and I know you will come back to show it off when it's done. It looks like you are doing well and as you say, learn from your mistakes, so it should be ab awesome light!
Bugger. It comes back to the old saying that if something can go wrong it will. Tomorrow is always a new day that brings a clear head and with any luck a happier wife. To you as well have a happy new year and looking forward to the next chapter in this amazing lght. Cheers.
Thanks! That saying seems to be very true. It’s a new day now with clear head and new plans for how to implant that driver ( happy wife also :).
Thanks!
I used 800&2000 sand papers. After that I used two types of waxes with leather to get finishing polish.
Parts that I made in lathe - I also polished in lathe.
Really nice work. George at Taskled makes very good drivers but it takes a lot of patience to cycle through 13 different programming modes. Nice that you can set low voltage warnings at different levels using different battery setups. Thank you for posting set backs as well as successes. That’s the way modding can be with a first time build. Looking forward to your results.
So, I finished my battery pack this week. As I said earlier it’s powered by 4S2P 18650 3100mAh batteries.
Here’s parts that i worked with ( also some wires, heatclue & wood sticks between batteries )
After cluing and soldering batteries together, adding balance and power lead, this is how it looked like.
I was a little afraid of heating that shrink shock on top of that pack. I’m sure batteries heated over 100C while doing this. Those big shrink shocks ( with clue ) takes massive amount of heat and it takes some time to cool off. But “luckily” nothing exploded and I did get ROCK SOLID battery pack.
After it was completed I went to local store to find right size and cheap camera pouch on top of pack. That pouch has velcro strap also, so I can easily mount it to bicycle bar.
Not neccesary if you have balancing leads and hobby charger. Batteries are good enough to withstand small shorts. Only long lasting shorts can be a problem. If you are carefull enough this is not big issue either.
@kahvitahra, good pack! Only the main cable could be a bit thicker. I’m using latest Magichine extension cable cut on half.
How did you solder cables directly on batteries?