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Does your lights mounted on your bars mess with your computer? Mine does, which messes up my mileage, speed, avg.

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Like how "mess"?


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Like, um, 140mph top speed lol. Which screws up my average speed and distance. Its a bonty wireless. Forget the model #. It only does it when I put my lights on, on the bars.

You got yourself a messy light.
It's most likely the SMPS in the light, that is the culprit.
Shielding can be an option, but takes some effort.
What kind of light do you run?


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Niterider 600 or the 1800.

Ok, that's not one of the "yellow" ones.
I'd send it back where it came from, as that is not acceptable for such an expensive light.
I'll bet you that yours has a defect, as they simply wouldn't get something like that approved, if it served as a noise transmitter to such an extend.

Alternatively, you can use shielded wire for your computer?


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Yellow ones??? The computer is wireless.

Yellow= Chinese

Is it the same with both lights?


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Its hit or miss with both. Sometimes it does it, sometimes it doesnt. Always mounted in the same spot.

Ok, to find out for sure, try mounting the light and the computer as close as possible.
If the problem increases, next stop "shielding".


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So how do you shield a wireless signal?

Or is it the light that gets sheided?

The Light


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I've seen this come up before; there are lots of threads about it in teh intardnetwr0ld.

Like this: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/sho ... -computers

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^ Reason I brought it up here as well. See who has run into this problem as well.

I fixed it though, kind of.

Just mounted my light on the helmet and if I need both, I'll just say F it and take the computer off.

That makes a few good reasons, to ditch duty cycle control plus overdrive of the LED, and just make an adjustable constant current source.
That's how I make my lights, and truth be told, the difference in power consumption is minimal.
The only drawback, is that overdriving the LED is "no-can-do", so a more powerful LED is required.


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Mine doesn't

Cover the light (except the business end...) with tinfoil. shielding complete.

HillDancer, that's a nice looking light! Custom build?

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It's a dual-quad amber LED light engine from DiNotte called 400A Daytime; not the same as the 400A with two LEDs. The primary purpose is for being seen.

What about that mount? Where did you find that?

The handle bar mount is FSA's Control Center Computer Mount. I don't remember the shop I purchased from, but I know Amazon and many other retailers have it. It's more secure than most one arm mounts I've seen. The clamps and quick release feet are included with the light.

Posting in this old thread because My night riding buddy and I have both had the same problems with wireless computers and bar lights. The comupter only seems to work, and even then it is a bid dodgy, whe the light is run full-blast. Running the light at low or medu\ium, and the comuter freezes up altogether...no readings.

We both solved the problem by simply taking the fancier wireless computer off our bikes and replacing them with cheap-o Cateye 7's. Nice heavy wire. No 'mo problemo!

All's I want is to know current speed, distance, top and avg. speeds, and total time running. I don't need to know how little elevation I've climbed, or what the temperature is/was.

And don't even get me started on HRM's!

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Okay Ray, I'll get you started on HRMs………..

I have a bluetooth cadence/speed sensor on my disc trucker and I use a bluetooth HRM with it. No issues. I'm a big data geek and really like having the data to look through later.

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It's just that, at my age, I don't WANT to know what my HR data is or isn't.

I figure that if I hammer it up a difficult hill and I don't drop over dead, then I'm doing good.

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Same here, as long as my heart is beating that's enough info. for me

That is not politically correct. Yellow is the colour of the light on old french cars.

Lezyne X-lock mount keep the light our front where it should be. Not on the handlebar.

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