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Title: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: Privateer on March 31, 2012, 11:37:31 AM I commute on my monster and almost always wear a backpack while doing so. I want to make myself a little more visible to the Orange County texting-absorbed a-holes.
I wear this: (http://www.voodootactical.net/images/Product/medium/815.jpg) and was thinking I could insert some kind of LED tube in the MOLLE straps, powered by batteries. I was imagining an upsidedown U with the ends in the far left/right straps, the U roughly following the contours of that pocket. Unrelated, I'm also planning to add some reflective tape to my helmet, front and back. Trying to address all angles of visibility that I can. I thought it'd be pretty easy to find some kind of LED tube or flexible strip that would work but I can't seem to find anything online, any ideas? Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: stopintime on March 31, 2012, 11:57:19 AM There are others, but this is one...
http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/riderlight/ (http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/riderlight/) Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: zooom on March 31, 2012, 01:12:28 PM niteize.com has some adaptable things in their L.E.D. section....
Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: He Man on March 31, 2012, 04:32:52 PM You can just throw on a bicycle LED flasher.
Another option is to iron on some 3m reflective fabric. Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: Qfactor on April 03, 2012, 07:02:58 AM I use a bicycle flasher light...
I haven't been rear ended.........yet Q Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: Slide Panda on April 03, 2012, 10:11:19 AM EL Wire
http://www.instructables.com/id/El-Wire-Backpack/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/El-Wire-Backpack/) Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: zooom on April 03, 2012, 11:27:39 AM the problem I have with EL Wire is it disapears as soon as light hits it...it has a tendancy to be washed out practically...L.E.D. is less probelmatic in this regard from my experience due to the light output...
Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: Grrrly on April 03, 2012, 01:27:39 PM I have an older version of this:
http://www.niteize.com/collections/led/products/clip-on-marker (http://www.niteize.com/collections/led/products/clip-on-marker) (http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0032/5752/products/ClipOnMarker_06_large.jpeg?102510) (http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0032/5752/products/ClipOnMarker_01_large.jpeg?102510) Lights up either a on steady or pulsing flash. Title: Re: flexible LED for backpack? Post by: Grrrly on April 03, 2012, 01:29:48 PM I also have a reflective safety triangle thingy that I clip to my pack as well. I found it in a bicycle shop as well.
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