{"id":746,"date":"2009-07-30T21:07:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T02:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2009-11-08T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T00:27:39","slug":"bike-lighting-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/30\/bike-lighting-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Lighting: $15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/front_headlight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/front_headlight-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Front Headlight\" title=\"Front Headlight\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-747\" \/><\/a>  In case I need to commute home after dark on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/the-175-electric-bike\/\">electric bike<\/a>, I added a front headlight (5 watt MR11 halogen) and a rear tail light (Red LED tail light for &#8220;off-road&#8221; use). The front headlight enclosure was designed to be used on a bike, and included a nice mounting bracket and enough cord that I could harvest some to run to the rear tail light. Black zip-ties hold the wires to the frame. The  rear tail light had no enclosure, so I soldered the wire directly to it and epoxied it into the back of my rear rack. Both lights run off of only one of the 12v batteries through a 5A blade fuse and an automotive switch mounted under the battery pack.   <!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_9220.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_9220-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tail Light\" title=\"Tail Light\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-750\" \/><\/a> If you look at the picture of the tail light you can see that it is sitting between the two solar panels hinged on the rear rack, but those are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/01\/e-bike-solar-charging-rack\/\">another story<\/a>.<br \/>\nTotal cost, under $15.<\/p>\n<p>Front Headlight: $5.65<br \/>\nRear LED: $2.75<br \/>\nSwitch: $1.52<br \/>\nBlade Fuse Holder: $1.27<br \/>\n5A blade fuse: $0.60<br \/>\nZip Ties: $2.79<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case I need to commute home after dark on my electric bike, I added a front headlight (5 watt MR11 halogen) and a rear tail light (Red LED tail light for &#8220;off-road&#8221; use). The front headlight enclosure was designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/30\/bike-lighting-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-ebike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}