BikeGen

Step 5 Mount Everything to your Bike

The motor mount should be easy to mount, but I haven't figured out the best way to mount the electronics yet so for right now their just duct taped to the handle bars. The lights will also have to be modified so that you can connect them to the batteries in the electronics box. For the tail light I soldered wires to the PC board and drilled two small holes to run the wires through. In the head light I just wedged the wires onto the connectors for the bulb and put a drop of hot glue there to hold them in place. For both lights I used a D-sub connector on a short section of wire, this is so that I can disconnect the lights easily. I ran wire from the electrical box to each light with pins soldered to the ends. I twisted two wires together with a drill for each light.

Once everything is connected mount it all to your bike and your ready to go.

Comments

[josephcherng]

why not mount the electronics on the rack? or elongate the whole setup to fit on the seat tube or under the saddle?

[dbc1218]

right now I'm using two switches to control the charging and the lights so I needed to mount it up front. I would like to build a single circuit that would keep the batteries charged and keep them in the lights themselves and have no switches so all you would do is hook up the lights and go, but I'm working on a few other projects and this has to go to the backburner.

[T.R.]

How long does it take to recharge AA batteries with this setup?

[dbc1218]

I recently rode about 15 miles while charging the batteries the entire way. They went from completely dead to just under their rated voltage. This was about one and a half hours of riding at a steady pace as well. The charger for the batteries said it could charge these batteries in two hours when plugged into a car so I think this is pretty decent performance. So it can fully recharge the batteries but its probably better suited for keeping them charged.