Dynamo Hub Light Fail

[Geonz]

I thoroughly violated the warranty on the old one...not this one.
... but I believe I've solved it.

WIth the old one, with many lousy design features, the wiring was prone to being yanked out. With the new one, I was glad to see that there was a connection to the light that was meant to be actually put on like you meant it... basically, it's a lot easier to set up so that you don't just snag the wire between light and hub and yank things apart.

WIth the new one... well, we'd put the connection into the same one as the old -- the one on the left. Except the reason it was on the one on the left on the old one was because the connections had broken on the one on the right.

THe one on the right says "IN" -- as in, energy goes "IN" from the hub... and the one on the left says "OUT," because it's there if you want to hook up a taillight.

So... I'll shorten things a *little* bit... the hub is now connected to the "IN" slot and it seems that it didn't short anything because that thing stayed on the whole commute home and I'm pretty sure it was in BRIGHT mode.

I do want to head down to our MakerSpace and use the nifty tools there to make the "IN" connection as solid as the "OUT" connection is ... then I just might hook up a tail light...
... and what makes me even happier is the idea that the old light is probably still fine -- well, except for all the physically broken parts which a little ductape could fix -- but wasn't working becasue I'd switched to the "out" port.

[Sky King]

Whew, glad you figured it "out" Was all ready to have the Bike Hermit comment as he builds many a dyno hub wheel, plus we sell the lights and hub you have. Peter White is great - he is the primary distributor for busch & muller in the U.S. so we buy the majority of the lights we offer through him. I can't imagine not have a dyno hub.