How To – DIY Bicycle Headlamps
September 1, 2005 | In: How-To's, Motorcycles Mopeds, Offroad Vehicles
With the price of gas climbing ever higher, I imagine more and more folks will be resorting to the trusty conveyance of pedal power. Just make sure to remember to wear your helmet and if you’re riding at night, ensure that you can see and be seen.
Now, most people would simply go out and purchase headlamps for their bicycles, but other folks have an insatiable need to make stuff themselves instead. Luckily, Jake von Slatt has already been there, done that and made a web page about it.
Jake takes you through the process of making your own halogen bicycle headlamps from parts easily picked up from your local Home Depot (except for the female Molex connector pins which he had to get from Radio Shack). Two lamps, one a 20 watt low beam and the other a 50 watt high beam are powered by a 7 Ah gel cell battery of the kind typically found in computer UPS’s.
I really liked Jake’s disclaimer from the how to…
Disclaimer: Tools used and completed headlights can be dangerous – Dangers range from cuts from knives and power tools, fire and burns from soldering irons and hot bulbs to injury and even death if assembly is swallowed. It’s up to you to keep safe.
[via Makezine Blog]
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