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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Ignition light with Alton single phase generator
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 19946" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>Buy an LED light. Mine fits into a hole drilled in the headlamp shell - 8 mm I think. FIT IT WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT WHEN YOU GET OFF THE BIKE. Don't ask why that was in caps. Bearing in mind that LED lights only work when connected the right way round, take off the headlamp rim, switch the Alton ON, and try to find two connections (one'll be earth, obviously) that will light the lamp, but extinguish it when the Alton is switched off. Connect the LED to those. </p><p>Even cleverer is to arrange a flashing LED so that it flashes when the ignition is OFF, thus giving the impression you have an alarm system (linked by satellite to (fill in organisation of choice) missile-firing assasination drones, natch). So when the light is on the Alton is off, and vice versa.</p><p>I might say that while I do have a switched Alton, I frequently forget to switch it off (see caps above...), and although I start the twin a la Grosset, heve never had any problems with flattened batteries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 19946, member: 4034"] Buy an LED light. Mine fits into a hole drilled in the headlamp shell - 8 mm I think. FIT IT WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT WHEN YOU GET OFF THE BIKE. Don't ask why that was in caps. Bearing in mind that LED lights only work when connected the right way round, take off the headlamp rim, switch the Alton ON, and try to find two connections (one'll be earth, obviously) that will light the lamp, but extinguish it when the Alton is switched off. Connect the LED to those. Even cleverer is to arrange a flashing LED so that it flashes when the ignition is OFF, thus giving the impression you have an alarm system (linked by satellite to (fill in organisation of choice) missile-firing assasination drones, natch). So when the light is on the Alton is off, and vice versa. I might say that while I do have a switched Alton, I frequently forget to switch it off (see caps above...), and although I start the twin a la Grosset, heve never had any problems with flattened batteries. [/QUOTE]
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