Bike lamps

Actually my lamps don't come from bikes, but it's the same sort. I found a modern lamp made of tubes in different lengts standing vertical wit at each tip there was a bike-lamp with a little fitting. I took those out of the lamp and still use the adaptor. I joined 3 fittings together with tape and now I am working on how to fit them under the glareshield to light up my MIP.

Here's how I did it:

I need 4 light sources which is just right when I take 3 lamps together (got 12 in total). Next step, I took 4 water bottles. I cut off the top part just below the ring sticking out.

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I took the lids of the bottles and drilled a holl in them. Then pulled the wires from the fittings trough it and fixed at the outside.

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The idea is to allow to still take out the lights of the cockpit for some reason whenever necessary.

After the bases of the bottle tip have been glued on the inside of the glare over a round holl made with a clock-drill, you can just simply screw the lids back on to the bases and that's that.

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Sorry for the late upload of this last picture. No curtains here means I got to wait till after 22:00h to take these kinda pics ;)

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The adaptor used to power these lights:

Model: AA-0606 / Input: 230V ~ 50Hz / Output: 6V ~ 1A 6VA


WOW! ;) Great idea! //Tuomas


Yes, looks good. These are the ideas that make this wiki so informative :) One question though: what about heat? How hot do the lamps get after running a few hours ? Could this potentially meld the plastic ?


I thought of that. They have only been burning for 5min max now. The idea is to get them burning for 1h or more and then go feel how hot they get. For sure after 5min they are maybe double the air temperature. So not hot enough to do damage. If they get hot my suggestion would be: Put glue on the inside of the lid and the base and then push some tin foil inside. This will stop the heat from going onto the plastic (I hope). Other than that you could drill some small holls into the lid around the big one you made for the lamps. Maybe this would allow heat to disipate via those upwards. None the less .. you think plastic bottle, you think thin plastic .. however this part of the bottle is maybe 3mm thick. It might just hold it but indeed .. this is 1 part of the sim that should be checked every .. say 20h. Watch out guys, here is where maintenance kicks in :) (--Por)


Did the test last night. Had them on for over 2h and they get not hot at all. You can still easely hold them in your hands. So no problemo (--Por)


I think you wouldnt even need to glue them, if you made the hole large enough for the threaded part to fit through, but not the collar, then just screw the cap on from the other side of the panel.. The night-time example photo looks stunningly good by the way! //Tuomas


Check the first picture Tuomas. See the white ring ? Ok now if your panel is more thick than the heigth of this ring, your idea should work. If not, the thing won't be tight enough.


Just leave the ring there? By the way, your cockpit is starting to look *really* good! Now remember to get some flying done with it as well once you get it functional.. //Tuomas


All I am waiting for are the knitters. Then I can tune everything and I can start flying the way I was used to from the desktop. Then if I could find stupid flatcable connectors ( every single store in the area that I have tried is closed for holiday :@ ) and then I could wire up the (helo)pedals I have. Expect to get 13 knitters early next week and the remaining 2 the week after. So SOON ! (--Por)

Bike lamps (last edited 2004-07-30 10:06:40 by 18-97)