MOPED ARMY

DC to AC? Gotta have that current right. don-ohio

What I mean is that most mopeds power their lights by AC current.

The Cateyes' I've seen are DC powerewd.............meaning they need a battery somewhere. don-ohio

...holy god, a system that charges batteries from a moped?!!?

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, DOES ANYONE HAVE A SCHEMATIC FOR THE CAT-EYE SYSTEM THAT CAN SHOW ME HOW THE ELECTRONICS WORK????

sorry about the other pic

you want to buy a partial assembly and figure it out yourself? I don't have any lights, but I have the main unit.

I was looking fo rlike $10 plus shipping, but we can talk if you are interested Don, as long as you help Rand with the schematics if you can.

im good ar electronic boards but not great at them

ill look over the thing

but yea it must be somthing wrong with the charging circuit box

ill also try to find someone that can make a wiring diagram for these signals

If you can give me a full schematic of the magneto to cateye to battery line, that being, where the power comes from, where it goes into, WHAT it goes into (specifically, exactly what electrical components are involved in schematic form), and what it runs at, I believe I can redesign the system to charge a larger battery set.

What this means, in essence, is once I figure it all out, that anyone with a soldiering iron could go to radioshack and build a unit to charge a battery on their moped...

...battery powered onboard stuff for everyone! :)

-rand

Ray, I will email you again about the cateye, I will buy just that from you, we can talk rims some other time.

Just remember that it doesn't have to be charged by the moped...............you can solder leads and charge it from a trickle charger. don-ohio

No,Rand, a trickle charger is one you plug in overnight and clip to your battery. It's very small and has maybe one amp.

don-ohio

ok i might have found the problem

the wire going to the light switch poped off

ill solder it back on now

You lightly solder 2 wires to the proper terminals of the box where the batteries sit..............you attach alligator clips(an actual plug end is better) to the ends.....one red(positive),one black(ground). You then find any power source(Radio Shack has universal ones with adjustable outputs and voltages) that plugs into the wall and is greater than 200 MAmp and up to 1000 Mamps, and connect it positive to positive,negative to negative. I keep a timer here that I can set for 6-8 hrs.charging on my lawnmower battery. 6-8 hrs. is a good charge time for most Ni-Cads.

don-ohio