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I also show people what NOT to do, i.e. the bungee cord plus Maglite
solution. The person that posted this wisely took the photo down, but it lives on in the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181016104124/http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/slides/bicycle-flashlight.html |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:22:26 -0700, sms
wrote: I also show people what NOT to do, i.e. the bungee cord plus Maglite solution. The person that posted this wisely took the photo down, but it lives on in the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181016104124/http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/slides/bicycle-flashlight.html You mean that a guy ties a flashlight to his own bicycle, apparently in a manner satisfactory to him, for his own use, and he is to be condemned for doing so? -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 7/15/2020 7:20 PM, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:22:26 -0700, sms wrote: I also show people what NOT to do, i.e. the bungee cord plus Maglite solution. The person that posted this wisely took the photo down, but it lives on in the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181016104124/http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/slides/bicycle-flashlight.html You mean that a guy ties a flashlight to his own bicycle, apparently in a manner satisfactory to him, for his own use, and he is to be condemned for doing so? -- Cheers, John B. Probably another of the 'capitalist roaders and running dogs' as the Great Helmsman called us. With only one afloat and three keels laid, how are the chinese going to outdo our supercarrier fleet unless small town mayors flog crappy chinese flashlights to the great unwashed masses? -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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John B. writes:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:00:02 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/15/2020 8:40 AM, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 04:54:01 UTC-4, Tosspot wrote: On 15/07/2020 00:47, sms wrote: After riding around with this light on my mountain bike/gravel bike I've had several people ask me about this light and where to get it. To make it easier to share the information I wrote up a little blurb on it in a shared Google Docs document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17TCGXl9N0dD6wNhNHAyf-ZeEfZLp2uf6A4D40BTgZwo/ http://tinyurl.com/ccfl26650. Looking at https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....AC_SL1000_.jpg I would say that is dangerous anywhere near a public road. Right on! Talk about overkill! SMS will in the future post an even brighter narrow beam light. I'd hate to be riding towards anyone using that light at night. Even a driver would probably be blinded by it. Also, Scharf's post lacked the notice from his websites, "If you buy one of these, please start from my site so I can get a commission," or words to that effect. BTW, I'm curious. Scharf touts his, um, elegant conduit clamp mount instead of "highly breakable plastic." While I have properly designed bike headlights bolted onto my bikes, I have friends who use plastic mounted headlights on their handlebars. I've never heard of one of those mounts breaking. Is that a common problem for those posting here? Well, I did, for a while, use two hose clamps to mount lights but one does have to be rather careful doing this as (1) normal metal hose clamps tend to rust and (2) stainless clamps come in two flavors, and only one type is all stainless and doesn't corrode. I now use plastic mounts as it does solve the corrosion factor and since the police now seem to use plastic for handcuffs and as Americans now hardly ever seem to carry a "pocket knife" they are probably secure against theft. Do you really have a problem with Americans travelling to Thailand and stealing bicycles? If so, I weep for my compatriots. |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:02:10 -0500, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/15/2020 7:20 PM, John B. wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:22:26 -0700, sms wrote: I also show people what NOT to do, i.e. the bungee cord plus Maglite solution. The person that posted this wisely took the photo down, but it lives on in the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181016104124/http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/slides/bicycle-flashlight.html You mean that a guy ties a flashlight to his own bicycle, apparently in a manner satisfactory to him, for his own use, and he is to be condemned for doing so? -- Cheers, John B. Probably another of the 'capitalist roaders and running dogs' as the Great Helmsman called us. With only one afloat and three keels laid, how are the chinese going to outdo our supercarrier fleet unless small town mayors flog crappy chinese flashlights to the great unwashed masses? I don't think that they are going to bother. Although it has been said before I doubt that the Chinese are going to promote a war with anyone.It is far more costly than economic action. After all, based on PPP it is the largest economy in the world and likely to grow larger. In 2017 China was the largest exporter in the world and it is growing, since 2008 China has produced more automobiles than the U.S. and Japan combined. And, it might be pointed out that China does it's part in supporting the value of the U.S. dollar being the second largest holder of U. S. debt in the world. -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:22:26 -0700, sms
wrote: I also show people what NOT to do, i.e. the bungee cord plus Maglite solution. The person that posted this wisely took the photo down, but it lives on in the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181016104124/http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/slides/bicycle-flashlight.html Oh, be nice. You're probably still angry at me for suggesting that your previous Amazon flashlight find used AAA cells instead of AA cells. For what little it's worth, I'm not angry, just disappointed. The least you could have done is given me appropriate photo credit. I had to reorganize my web pile[1]. The new URL is: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/ http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/#bicycle-flashlight.jpg http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/bicycle-flashlight.jpg Please note that my mounting technique will work with any make, model, style, and size of flashlight. The mount is also economical, ergonomic, does not scratch the handlebars, and provides a fairly soft surface to crash into when attempting to fly over the handlebars. It can also be converted into an improvised sling shot for defense against aggressive oncoming riders with megalumen headlights. The Maglite can also be easily removed and reporposed into a riot batton. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jun/15/the-new-horsemen-why-american-riot-police-embraced-the-bicycle I suggest you reconsider your review of my flashlight mounting method. [1] I've been using JAlbum for displaying photos for about 7 years without upgrading to the latest version: https://jalbum.net I've had problems, but nothing serious. However, I ran into a minor problem that was fixed in a later version, so I upgraded to the latest. When I used the new version to rebuild my photo album, it left me with a large number of empty directories, and no photos. Oops. What happened was I had missed the notice to not save the album HTML code in the same directory as the source directly for the photos. In my never humble opinion, this should have been possible, but since I ignored the warning, it was deemed to be my fault. So, I had to restructure everything. That would have been easy, except the skin (template) that I was using to create the albums had died long ago and didn't work with the latest version. So, I grabbed the least disgusting skin (template) and reorganized and rebuilt the albums. 200 MBytes of uploading on a slow DSL line, and I was back in business, or so I thought. The problem was that the album and photo URL's also changed with the new skin (template). All the links to the old web pages wouldn't work. I could build a redirection database, but that could wait until I first check if there were any complaints. That was 3 months ago, and this is the first time anyone has complained or pointed to archive.org. Since this also proves that nobody reads my web pages or cares enough to complain, I elected to leave things alone. My apologies for any inconvenience caused by this problem. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:39:23 -0400, Radey Shouman
wrote: John B. writes: On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:00:02 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/15/2020 8:40 AM, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 04:54:01 UTC-4, Tosspot wrote: On 15/07/2020 00:47, sms wrote: After riding around with this light on my mountain bike/gravel bike I've had several people ask me about this light and where to get it. To make it easier to share the information I wrote up a little blurb on it in a shared Google Docs document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17TCGXl9N0dD6wNhNHAyf-ZeEfZLp2uf6A4D40BTgZwo/ http://tinyurl.com/ccfl26650. Looking at https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....AC_SL1000_.jpg I would say that is dangerous anywhere near a public road. Right on! Talk about overkill! SMS will in the future post an even brighter narrow beam light. I'd hate to be riding towards anyone using that light at night. Even a driver would probably be blinded by it. Also, Scharf's post lacked the notice from his websites, "If you buy one of these, please start from my site so I can get a commission," or words to that effect. BTW, I'm curious. Scharf touts his, um, elegant conduit clamp mount instead of "highly breakable plastic." While I have properly designed bike headlights bolted onto my bikes, I have friends who use plastic mounted headlights on their handlebars. I've never heard of one of those mounts breaking. Is that a common problem for those posting here? Well, I did, for a while, use two hose clamps to mount lights but one does have to be rather careful doing this as (1) normal metal hose clamps tend to rust and (2) stainless clamps come in two flavors, and only one type is all stainless and doesn't corrode. I now use plastic mounts as it does solve the corrosion factor and since the police now seem to use plastic for handcuffs and as Americans now hardly ever seem to carry a "pocket knife" they are probably secure against theft. Do you really have a problem with Americans travelling to Thailand and stealing bicycles? If so, I weep for my compatriots. Well, no. I was writing primarily for a U.S. audience as that seems to be most of the posters here. No, Americans that come to Thailand and commit crimes are actually fairly rare and their "crimes" seem mostly to be drug related. -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 7/15/2020 10:35 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Please note that my mounting technique will work with any make, model, style, and size of flashlight. The mount is also economical, ergonomic, does not scratch the handlebars, and provides a fairly soft surface to crash into when attempting to fly over the handlebars. It can also be converted into an improvised sling shot for defense against aggressive oncoming riders with megalumen headlights. Hear hear! [1] I've been using JAlbum for displaying photos for about 7 years without upgrading to the latest version: https://jalbum.net I've had problems, but nothing serious. However, I ran into a minor problem that was fixed in a later version, so I upgraded to the latest. When I used the new version to rebuild my photo album, it left me with a large number of empty directories, and no photos. Oops. What happened was I had missed the notice to not save the album HTML code in the same directory as the source directly for the photos. In my never humble opinion, this should have been possible, but since I ignored the warning, it was deemed to be my fault. So, I had to restructure everything. That would have been easy, except the skin (template) that I was using to create the albums had died long ago and didn't work with the latest version. So, I grabbed the least disgusting skin (template) and reorganized and rebuilt the albums. 200 MBytes of uploading on a slow DSL line, and I was back in business, or so I thought. The problem was that the album and photo URL's also changed with the new skin (template). All the links to the old web pages wouldn't work. I could build a redirection database, but that could wait until I first check if there were any complaints. That was 3 months ago, and this is the first time anyone has complained or pointed to archive.org. Since this also proves that nobody reads my web pages or cares enough to complain, I elected to leave things alone. My apologies for any inconvenience caused by this problem. And that's a major gripe about softwa It's soft. It's easily changeable, and sometimes even changed without warning. "Hey! We just made our software BETTER, so nothing you've been doing will work the same way! Have fun figuring it all out! But when you do, we'll change it again!" -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 7/15/2020 7:35 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:22:26 -0700, sms wrote: I also show people what NOT to do, i.e. the bungee cord plus Maglite solution. The person that posted this wisely took the photo down, but it lives on in the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181016104124/http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/bicycles/slides/bicycle-flashlight.html Oh, be nice. You're probably still angry at me for suggesting that your previous Amazon flashlight find used AAA cells instead of AA cells. For what little it's worth, I'm not angry, just disappointed. The least you could have done is given me appropriate photo credit. I forgive you for doubting me. Glad you now understand about the diameter of AA batteries. I would have credited you but I thought that you had taken down that photo since the original link didn't work. I thought that you were didn't want anyone to know about that kluge and that you had taken my advice and fabricated a proper mount and acquired a proper, shorter, flashlight for your bicycle. |
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:01:26 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/15/2020 10:35 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: Please note that my mounting technique will work with any make, model, style, and size of flashlight. The mount is also economical, ergonomic, does not scratch the handlebars, and provides a fairly soft surface to crash into when attempting to fly over the handlebars. It can also be converted into an improvised sling shot for defense against aggressive oncoming riders with megalumen headlights. Hear hear! Also, the mounting technique is also secure thanks to my use of the Gordian Knot (patent pending) method of attachment, which is invulnerable to attack by anything less than a sharp sword: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot Each installation is individually tangled, so no two are the same, adding to the security of the mounting technique. Best of all, there is no key required to unlock the knot. And that's a major gripe about softwa It's soft. It's easily changeable, and sometimes even changed without warning. That's also the major benefit of software. With software updates, a company can ship broken software, and fix it later. In some cases, they don't even need to test the software before shipping. Instead, they rely on customer feedback to identify a problem, and contrive a quick fix in the next update. While this results in even more broken software on initial shipment, the problems are usually fixed with the first wave of updates. Where this goes wrong is when the company decides that fixing their products after about 5 years of updates competes with the sales of new products and simply stops issuing updates. While I don't like being screwed by manufacturers in this manner, the opposite extreme of offering a lifetime warranty would bankrupt most companies. (I worked for one company that offered a life time warranty. 15 years later, we were still doing free warranty repairs for our very first radios). Therefore, a number must be set for how long a product should be expected to be supported. 5 years is barely tolerable for computer products, but is tolerable because most (not all) computer hardware and software become generally obsolete after about 5 years. However, a bicycle and bicycle related accessories should last a lifetime, not 5 years. I would think 10 or more years would be the minimum for adult bicycles and accessories. "Hey! We just made our software BETTER, so nothing you've been doing will work the same way! Have fun figuring it all out! But when you do, we'll change it again!" Think of software as a learning experience. When we stop learning, improving, and progressing, we rot and die. In my case, I simply adapted to the software changes, and did my minimal best at damage control. Note that my domain name is "LearnByDestroying.com". -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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