ROFL, if you’ve never seen the Dukes of Hazzard, well…you prolly haven’t missed much, but it was great. Good & wholesome, racist and sexist, had cool cars and big boobs, everything the late 70’s was famous for 
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These are some scary stories my dudes. I’ve had the mentality that every driver is dumb and out to kill you since I first got my drivers license. No matter how safe you ride though, you can only minimize the risk and it still ends up being more dangerous than biking/driving.
Wont stop me though, its too convenient and fun 
Well to be fair this is the first time that’s ever happened in the 2 years of having a push button on my board lol.
@Vanarian I believe soft latching a Vedder switch has been talked about in another thread, idk if they ever did anything with it but yeah. And the switch I’m using is one of my own designs and it been chugging along well at 12S and 60A motor current so I’m good, thanks though!
I believe it was my thread you saw 
I’m still trying to figure out how wiring goes so I snap it all on a PCB and voilà plug the anti spark on it.
But maybe switching 100kohm resistors for 117kohm is the problem.
On main topic how come people can be so dangerous toward riders? That’s scary. Next step is putting a gyrolight on your helmets!
i indicate on my board like i am on a pre-indicator motorcycle…
more gear? not sure, in my little town peeps freak out when i have a full face on
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I refuse to ride closer than 1 meter away from parked cars. I assume every one has its door open already
The only way that cars might see you is if you are shooting at them, and then they might not even notice you. It’s because people aren’t consciously driving. They drive so much that their body is subconsciously doing the motions without actually thinking. Brains are trained to see other cars. Be damned any motorcycles, bikes, skateboards, or unicycles --, run 'em all over
It happend to me often that people see me on the skate and they think, oh is a skate I have time, they do not expect that we are going that fast!
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This is one of the biggest problems. also part of what happened to jedi imo.
Motorcycle advice is really good when riding. My father has totalled 3 Honda Goldwings (big touring motorcycle) from people who “didn’t see him”, luckily only 1 broken collar bone. But learning from these accidents, the best advice I have is to:
- always be as visible as possible (lights, reflectors, bright clothing)
- make direct eye contact with a driver who’s crossing your path, otherwise assume they will kill you
- ALWAYS wear protective gear. In case you do get hit, it WILL save your life.
These have saved me from some accidents hopefully they save others too
Holy! I would have paid to witness this! Most epic almost death ever!
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All luck brother, all luck.
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I wonder about the charges that would result in using one of these to get a cars attention?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emergency-Escape-Window-Hammer-Safety/dp/B00K63TG9C/
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prolly not a good idea…
My visibility is great in day and night…when I carve it flickers in peoples eyes…I run my lights on day and night… no one misses me… the beams go for approximately 700ft on flat ground. So it’s very easy to tell I’m on the road with a long ass waving Red pair of beams.
Also this…
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That seems like a sweet visibility system!
Your own design I take it?
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Yerp, It’s XM-L T6 Zoomable flashlights, with the bodys removed and the 4 lights wired to a constant current 1Amp Meanwell LDD-1000H LED Driver
The fronts are zoomed so that i get good front visibility, while the rears are zoomed all the way out and pointed mostly at the ground to create a “Beam” almost like a laser…
https://www.electric-skateboard.builders/t/eskate-lights-thread/199/397?u=deckoz
I tried that but the bulbs kept burning out despite making sure the voltage was properly stepped down.
the rear facing intermittent blinking, is that something that came with the flashlight or did you install a relay or something?
how’d you make it red also?
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o wait, it doesn’t blink haha, nevermind
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So
Meanwell LDD-1000H drivers take upto 5-52V input and automatically scale the voltage for the voltageForward of the LED series. There is no step down regulator, the Driver will properly regulate voltage in a closed loop. The meanwell is conntected directly to the battery supply after the antispark.
There is no blinking…it is me carving left to right and the beams “Tracking across the ground”.
The Flashlights are Cree XM-L T6 White in front, and Cree XPG Red in rear… they are “Tactical Zoomable Flashlights”
These with the bodies removed… and the heads were shoved into these truck mounts
Here’s a better close up to see how the bodies are removed…all 4 (two front white and two rear red, are wired in series to the meanwell LDD, the built-in driver in the flashlights were removed, and I am wiring directly to the 20mm Star LED board)
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I was hit by a car on Channing and Telegraph at night like 4 weeks ago! Thankfully I was only side swiped and got by with only a scrape on my arm. Also a police officer saw the whole thing and gave the guy a ticket.