[OrRando] i am now prepped for the nighttime populaire...

Susan France susanfrance at teleport.com
Fri Apr 14 08:33:02 PDT 2006


I'm always having to take my ft wheel on and off which means lots of
unplugging and plugging the E6 from the hub. Two days ago I ended up with
the connector on the hub and the wire in my hand. So I looked at it
yesterday and my solder connections still looked really fine (Thanks to the
my Elec Engineering internship spent replacing components on PCBs.) It was a
simple mechanical failure... the wire just eventually failed from the
plugging/unplugging I'd been expecting this, trying to grab those 2 little
connectors.

Has anyone a better solution? I've stayed away from splicing in another
connector because these tend to become new failure points ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
> [mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]On Behalf Of Bert Lutz
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:35 AM
> To: 'Oregon area Randonneurs'
> Subject: RE: [OrRando] i am now prepped for the nighttime populaire...
>
>
>
> Well, the fleche was my test bed for my new lights and there is some good
> news and bad news.
>
> The good news is that I really like the d'Lumotec Topal (primary) and E6
> combo.  The Topal led lights up the "near" world with LOTS of
> light.  Almost
> tempted to put on some shades,  ;-)  It also kicks in at about 3 mph which
> was really nice at 3am climbing in the rain.  The stand light is
> bright and
> seems to work for about 5 minutes.  It also has an auto sensing
> feature that
> turns on the light at dusk.  At dawn the light goes off and unfortunately,
> occasionally as a car approaches from the rear where the sensor
> is located.
> ;-).  The E6 throws a much more focused beam with a longer reach
> once I get
> moving and the 2 are a good together.
>
> The bad news is that both of my lights died on the fleche.  The Topal came
> back after an hour or so and the E6 is now working again several
> days later.
> I suspect that the issue was a water induced short and although I soldered
> and sealed all the splices, I must have missed something.  There was a LOT
> of rain on the fleche so this may be an aberration.  I have also seen one
> post on a message board that the Topal is not as weather proof as the E6.
> Anyway, I had a spare EL500 as a backup and that saved the day.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
> [mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]
> On Behalf Of joel metz
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:44 PM
> To: Oregon area Randonneurs
> Subject: Re: [OrRando] i am now prepped for the nighttime populaire...
>
>
> well, youre gonna find a big e6 booster in me :)
>
> the lumotecs are fine, though - i rode the last couple of years with
> twin lumos, and was just fine - but on pbp, when i first really got
> to see the beam pattern of the e6, jealousy kicked in...
>
> im just running one for the time being, mounted under the hbar bag to
> the immediate left of the wheel. ill be adding a second eventually,
> mounted to the right side fork tip, for better pothole vision.
>
> -joel
>
> At 10:59 -0700 04.11.2006, nate armbrust wrote:
> >I'm looking forward to checking out everybody's light setups on the
> >100K this Saturday night. I'm in the market for another lamp and I'm
> >hoping to do a little research on our ride, looking at light output
> >and beam patterns of different lamps. This will work out great
> >unless it turns out that everybody has an E6.
> >
> >See you Saturday.
> >
> >Nate
> >
> >On 4/11/06, joel metz
> ><<mailto:magpie at blackbirdsf.org>magpie at blackbirdsf.org> wrote:
> >
> >schmidt wheel built, e6 wired up, and i just finished my diy
> >reflective sash mk. 2.
> >
> >im not really the orange reflective vest type, and i just cant make
> >myself *buy* one of those ugly things, so ive one-upped the sash mk.
> >1 (which was constructed of cut-up reflective road sign material) and
> >made a sash out of some lightweight grey reflective fabric my
> >housemate had. rolled up, its about half the size and weight of a
> >clif bar - and blindingly reflective.
> >
> >compared to the sash mk. 1, that means i can carry 1 more sandwich
> >with the space i save! :)
>
> --
> joel metz  : magpie at blackbirdsf.org :  http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
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> ==
>            i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
>                                  after she got that bicycle...
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