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Here it is. There's not much to see as I covered everything with tape.
There are two terminals. I remember that it didn't come with wire so I just cut up an old USB extension lead, leaving the plug on to go into a battery pack, and put the wires into the right terminals. I had to check with B+M which was right but they said that if I put them in the wrong ones it just wouldn't work rather than blow up.
I think I soldered them in - I did it two years ago for IndyPac so that's why I'm a little hazy.
It's quite a strange light in that it is open at the bottom. I think it would die if you put it directly over a wheel so that it had water directed into it, and that was why I put loads of tape over it - as well as to keep the wires stable so my amateur soldering didn't come unstuck.
I used it on indypac, then took it off, and only put it back on last week.
The battery is in my top tube bag.
I'll tape the wire and tidy up a bit before I finalise the setup. The pump might come off and go somewhere else for TCR making things a bit tidier as well. I might even clean the bike!