elizilla
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There's a gadget I installed in my motorcycles, called a Flash2Pass. It is a garage door opener. The way it works is this: Y'know how garage door openers have a button on the wall, like a doorbell, which you use to open the garage door? There's a Flash2Pass receiver that replaces this button. It's just another button, but on a slightly larger box that has extra stuff in it to receive the signal from the remotes. Then there is Flash2Pass remote transmitter that you wire into the high beam circuit of the motorcycle (or car), and when you flash the high beams twice, it fires the remote transmitter and opens the garage door. Which means you can conceal the remote under the bodywork somewhere, and you don't even have to add any additional switches to operate it. Totally invisible, very elegant.
I came to e-biking because of disability, and getting on/off my bike is hard, so garage door remotes are a thing I like to carry. And before my disability came on, I used to have several motorcycles. I have a bunch of these transmitters sitting around, since I took them out before selling the bikes - you don't want the buyer to be able to open your garage after all.
So I have been thinking about whether/how I can install a Flash2Pass transmitter in my ebike. The automotive electrical system is 12 volts, but ebikes are usually 36 or 48. Will the transmitters work with higher voltage? And, with no high beams, what circuit can I splice it into? Maybe I should install some other farkle, like a headlight, and wire the Flash2Pass into that, so I'd be adding a switch but it would be a dual purpose switch at least.
Ehh, I dunno. I just like doing stuff like this, I already have the Flash2Pass system, and my garage door is already set up with it, so I think about it. Anyone done this?
I came to e-biking because of disability, and getting on/off my bike is hard, so garage door remotes are a thing I like to carry. And before my disability came on, I used to have several motorcycles. I have a bunch of these transmitters sitting around, since I took them out before selling the bikes - you don't want the buyer to be able to open your garage after all.
So I have been thinking about whether/how I can install a Flash2Pass transmitter in my ebike. The automotive electrical system is 12 volts, but ebikes are usually 36 or 48. Will the transmitters work with higher voltage? And, with no high beams, what circuit can I splice it into? Maybe I should install some other farkle, like a headlight, and wire the Flash2Pass into that, so I'd be adding a switch but it would be a dual purpose switch at least.
Ehh, I dunno. I just like doing stuff like this, I already have the Flash2Pass system, and my garage door is already set up with it, so I think about it. Anyone done this?
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