Illuminating a unicycle (ctd.)

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Semi-Scrapping the christmas lights idea (since mounting them neatly would
be difficult) I thought of embedding panel-mount lamp holders in the rim.
18 of them, one every other spoke (this avoids symmetry issues with regard
to the valve). There are two stumbling blocks with this.

  1. 18x90mA = 1.62A. (I may underrun the lamps… How bright is 5
    lumens anyway?)
  2. Each lamp holder requires a 14.5mm hole in a 20mm wide rim. Are 18
    of these going to seriously impact the strength of the rim? It looks
    like it might.

The nice things about bulbs are that they’re replaceable, reconfigurable,
bright and omnidirectional… I’ve grown attached to the idea and suddenly
LEDs seem feak and weeble.

What are the chances that 14.5mm holes are going to kill the rim?

Andrew xADF

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In article <a178h3$p73$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, Andrew Feldhaus
<Reply@Thread.pls> wrote: ) )The nice things about bulbs are that they’re
replaceable, reconfigurable, )bright and omnidirectional… I’ve grown
attached to the idea and suddenly )LEDs seem feak and weeble.

Check out <http://www.coolneon.com/>. I wore a couple of these on my
legs during the First Night parade in Santa Cruz (it was fun meeting
Nathan Hoover and the gang), and they look pretty cool. Omnidirectional,
and you could mount them along the rim and spokes without having to
drill holes. -Tom