Bike light hack
I have a nice LED bike light from Cateye. It has a bush-button soft switch on the back that cycles through on-flash-off. It stopped working properly a few months ago, and would only flash if I held in the button. Needless to say, this was frustrating. (And unsafe).
I cracked open the case and poked around a bit. I disconnected the leads coming from the switch and re-routed them to a plain-old SPST switch that I glued on to the side. Now I have a very simple, very reliable way to turn it off and on.
I’m not going to win any points for style, and I probably shouldn’t take it out in the rain, but I’ve saved myself the $30 and environmental cost to replace it. Hooray!
Filed under frugal, hack : Comments (1) : Jul 22nd, 2007 by tadfad
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:42 am
Well done. Very well done.