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Old 11-14-2021, 07:38 PM
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Default Re: Harley Davidson motorcycle with Sidecar

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Originally Posted by frizzen View Post
Surface mount LEDs on magnet wire let you stick lights in a TON more places than make sence. This had a solid chrome headlight so the pinpoint of light is not nearly as cool looking as a bucket lens setup. Anyway, I'm still not going to put an amber in the front fender light. I may be crazy, but i don't think it'll add enough to offset running more wires up the fork.

Tiny through-hole for wires, countersink the leds into lights, bend wires to aim emitter when placed, then install led 'wet' with hotglue, after cool scrape / trim the hotgoo down flush.

I was thinking i really should add more resistance on the lights to dim them a little, but "Painfully Obnoxious" lights on bikes are just so popular i may not need to. Plus there's not enough room for adding sound...

https://youtu.be/4h4VepNuGB4

Hiding wires into small stuff isn't fun. Lots of wires will always need stretched, shorterized, lower gauge, or spliced. If you're really lucky, service loop and stow it somewhere.

I'm not good at packing electronics, this guy is
https://youtu.be/KKXVVFWzM64

Before i'll say "it all fits" in here, its still got to have a battery pack made, and something to sit in the Hack so it's not showing wires through the hole in sidecar.
Not sure if i'd like a passenger, dog, or something like boxes, luggage, cases of beer... i dunno, any ideas?
Wow! I feel totally incompetent now, struggling to fit stuff at 1/14 scale. Amazing!
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