My old Mity at one point had too short wires, so I lengthened them simply by soldering onto the terminals of the bar mount, and then I stuck silicone sealant in there. Worked perfectly for a long time. The silicone eventually started to come loose from the bar mount as a little block, though, rather than staying put.
Jasper
Is it the same stuff they use to pot flyback secondaries? That's
12,000 to 40,000 volts hf.
Flybacks are potted in epoxy resin.
Speaking of HV, I can't imagine the voltages in the Cateye causing any significant electrical stress, and hence any voltage induced failures even without Goop or some sealant, as long as everything started clean and stayed clean. I could imagine an additional mechanical problem having lead to another open circuit due to the three miles of road vibration. In some such repairs I've tried, I've not been able to re-solder broken leads/pins with low enough energy to prevent additional damage. Two reasons for this: too cheap to buy the proper very-low power soldering system, and not proper skills for such delicate work. And this after having been certified to solder according to NASA standards! But nothing in spacecraft back in those days was as tiny as modern commercial electronics.
Datakoll, I think something else in your Cateye has broken, and it might or might not be associated with your repair, based on what you've told us.
Ken
This sounds like a joke from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in.
Dear Ken,
By one of those odd coincidences, Dan Rowan was probably the most famous kid to come out of the McClelland orphanage down the street from where I live.
Rowan was the one with the moustache and a fistful of medals as a fighter pilot.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
My Cateye reads in furlongs if I set it to a calibration number of
1069.Alas, it still reads in decimals, not eights. More work is required.
Why don't spark plug leads get made out of metal, copper or whatever?
Jasper
They used to be. Might even be able to get racing wires. They generate a lot of RF interference. Using resistor plugs helped a bit in this case.
greg
greg
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:16:57 +0000, Jasper Janssen Has Frothed:
They make lots of RFI.
And they don't when they're made out of resistor wire? Huh. Weird.
Jasper
No, not as much. The resistance built into the length of the lead chokes of the high frequencies that cause most of the interference !
Its not wire. Its conductive carbon fibers.
It's still wire. It's long and it conducts electricity, that's close enoough for government work. Who cares if it's not technically made out of metals.
Jasper
Jasper Janssen wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Sorry, the Compact Oxford English Dictionary disagrees:
wire
? noun metal drawn out into a thin flexible thread or rod
Yes, I looked it up, that's why I formulated my post the way I did. So don't be redundant.
Jasper
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