I thought that this is going to the best place to ask seeing as I know a lot of you like to tinker away with things. I've brought a set of Cateye RC230's from my brother as I needed something a bit better than the cheap LED light that I was using for my commute home late at night. The only thing is I've read a couple of reviews and apparently he battery life isn't great and also the charger and battery are really fussy i.e. you have to run the battery down to a certain level and then charge between 8-10 hours as the charger isn't a smart charger. Anyway if I've not sent everyone to sleep already, I've heard of people changing the battery to something else, any idea on how I go about doing that?
Cat eye RC230 mods?
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You should be able to change the battery for the same voltage and higher aH to get a longer burn.
What sort of battery is it?
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It's a 6V 4.2AH... if it's sealed lead acid, you'll be able to up the ah but it'll be a bigger battery..
Or you could get more batteries of the same size and connect them in parallel.. this'd also give you the option of using a different charger
What sort of battery is it?
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It's a 6V 4.2AH... if it's sealed lead acid, you'll be able to up the ah but it'll be a bigger battery..
Or you could get more batteries of the same size and connect them in parallel.. this'd also give you the option of using a different charger
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I think you can get them up to around 3.0 and are 7.2v but thought running 2 batteries, 1 for each light?, but not sure if it would kill the bulbs. Might just grin and bare them as I'm going on a driving course soon so hopefully only a few more horrible 2am from work commutes left.
The voltage hike isn't that great.. the life of the bulb will be shortened but I would doubt it'd be by much..
You could connect them in parallel and multiply the ah that way....
Or carry some spare and change them as necessary...
A home charger for rc batteries can be made relatively easily from a pc power supply too.
You could connect them in parallel and multiply the ah that way....
Or carry some spare and change them as necessary...
A home charger for rc batteries can be made relatively easily from a pc power supply too.
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If you understend electrickery, have a wee look in here dude, I did find a section on custom bike lights ages ago 
Fill yer boots ..................
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/for ... y.php?f=86
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Fill yer boots ..................
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/for ... y.php?f=86
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Enid_Puceflange":1v1ztrue said:If you understend electrickery, have a wee look in here dude, I did find a section on custom bike lights ages ago
Fill yer boots ..................
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/for ... y.php?f=86
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Lol I dont understan electrickery very well at all
But I shall take a look anyway, battery lasted bugger all time lastnight ended up resulting to using my backup 3led torch which as you can imagine at about 3am with no street lighting is a bit less than ideal lol
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do a search on singletrackworld.com in bike forum , there is a guy who sells custom batteries ( smudge is his username I think ) .
