Inside Saddlebag Lighting | BMW MOA

March 1, 2024

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I wished some LED lights contained in the saddlebags and I didn’t wish to drill a gap for energy.

I figured since a 9v battery will activate most LED lights it may be a great possibility because it has sufficient floor space to connect contained in the saddlebags w/3m Twin Lock tape and straightforward sufficient to alter out. I did not even know there have been rechargeable 9v batteries with a micro-usb port making recharging very straightforward.

To activate the lights I made a decision on a magnetic NO (Usually Open) change that means when the 2 items are collectively the circuit is open and the sunshine won’t activate.

The magnetic change will be about as shut as pictured above however clearly you want to get them as shut as potential.

You might want to discover a place the place, as soon as shut, they’re nearly touching and keep away from them touching however preserving the saddlebag lid from making a watertight seal. I used a battery ring doorbell digicam and a flashlight within the saddlebag to line them up the way in which I wished however you possibly can additionally use a digicam and time lapse shot. I simply used some tape to maneuver the change round then as soon as I discovered the proper location I marked the outer edges with some blue painters tape after which blended up the epoxy, utilized and put the switches in place and used some gorilla tape to carry them in place firmly. It is a 15 minutes set however I left in a single day.

The ribbon LED has some tape on the again, small sq., and I used gorilla tape to cowl the wires to the within of the saddlebag and positioned the 9v battery someplace the place it was straightforward to get to and used 3m twin lock tape to maintain that in place.

Finish consequence – open the saddlebag and the sunshine goes on, shut it and it goes off. A 9v battery will energy that single LED for a really very long time, it could be years til I’ve to recharge it.

Including Inexperienced possibility for comparability, inexperienced supplies some extra element however not pretty much as good for evening imaginative and prescient nonetheless, additionally a good selection.