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I stock many of the parts used in these Bike lighting projects, on my web store. Here is the link to my web store page with bike lighting and P7 LED parts. Click here to go to my web store Click here to go back to the Main Bike lights page |
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I stock many of the parts used in these Bike lighting projects, on my web store. Here is the link to my web store page with bike lighting and P7 LED parts. Click here to go to my web store Click here to go back to the Main Bike lights page |
| Converting a Clicky switch for Off - On1 - On2 and On3 |
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Here's a shot of a stock clicky switch.
The stock switches have 3 positions = Off - On2 - On1 I am going to add one more terminal to this switch to make it Off - On2 - On1 and On3 The reason I am doing this is so I can switch two 1400ma current limiting boards on, one at a time. One board on will limit the current to 1400ma and give you a low setting on a SSC P7 LED. Two boards on at the same time will give you the high setting with 2800ma of current limiting. |
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Here's shot of a stock switch. You can see Out1
and Out2 terminals.
You can gently pry these switches apart and put them back together. I like to add a very small drop of super glue on each corner post after I put them back together Note on the switch above, I had already glued it together and so I had to drill out the four post to get it apart for this photo. |
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Here's a shot with a new Out3 terminal added.
The switch case already has spots for 4 terminals so it was a breeze to pop in another one. If you look closely, you can see that out1 and out2 terminals are not the same. The curved part that contacts the center terminal is curved a different direction. To add an out3 terminal, take an out1 terminal from another switch See how the center terminal has two arms on it. This lets it contact two terminals at the same time. In the photo above Out1 and Out3 are on at the same time. |
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Note that this switch actually has 6 click positions.
The center terminal repeats itself twice for every
revolution like this Off - On2 - On 1 and On 3 then Off - On2 - On 1 and On 3 |
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