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Made a light mount today.
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Ah ok, with a little flippy top thing. I was hoping for something I could use with any bottle, but I may well have to try one of those. Bit bored of mouthfuls of grit. Although I had my bottle on my down tube, shoved right up underneath my frame bag this morning and it kept the worst off (usually have it on the seat tube if I have a frame bag on the bike)
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I had a bottle with a flippy covery thing, cost way too much. It lasted about a month before rolling off the station platform and under a train on a journey home one time.
Maybe consider making a little fairing? Plastic with a heat gun, mounts to bottle cage bolt, acts as a mini mudguard aero thingy?
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Love that! I'm always on the lookout for similar when I need to lift the bike up.
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Still a little bit Russian-roulette-y if you've been riding on lanes covered in sheep shit/field runoff...
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@Thrasher
Yes. A Google Nest bell push is powered by a 24V transformer—the big TNC block in the middle. The funny dongle thing is connected to the bell push and the relay control.
The relay switches the 8V supply of the bell, which is provided by another transformer.
The whole mess is connected to the mains by a normal fused plug, with a circuit breaker in between. The DIN rail inside the box that all the bits are mounted on is connected to the earth.
I still need to make three holes in the box with glands to run the cables in, and then I can put the lid on.
But why though? UK powered doorbells are 8V as a rule, and Google require 16—24, which is why I needed to add the other transformer and the relay. You could always use a battery-powered doorbell, I suppose, but I don’t want to be changing batteries in my doorbell. I wanted a video bell to deter burglars from trying to crowbar my front door open again (0800 on a Sunday morning!). Presumed culprits have since been arrested & charged, as a result of a neighbour’s video footage.
In short I would not recommend buying a Google doorbell for use in the UK, but it was type II fun.
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