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I’ve been advised once to simply add a capacitor in series (?) to the connection, though a) I may be wrong and b) can someone more knowledgeable about wiring chip in please?
Yours, a regretfully electro-phobic technology Teacher.
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It would have to be placed in parallel with the light output to do anything. Standard capacitors are spectacularly un-energy-dense so you'd want a super-capacitor for it to last more than a few seconds.
That's pretty much all the standlight in a basic rear light is, except there are usually some diodes and resistors and things to regulate the charging voltage and slow down the discharge current a bit.
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My father is a electrical engineer. Pity he's just returned home! :)
I might email Supernova and ask about it but unless they're like "oh yeah, we made a bunch of fucked lights, send it back to us" I'll probably just suck it up and run a rear blinky.
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hippy
So, the wires are correct (because #hippyisalwaysright) and if they are reversed the rear light doesn't work at all. I guess that points to the cap being a bit shit in the headlight. Any other brilliant (your a lumen!) ideas?