Mods of Inmotion V5F+

[stevenvo]

I'm thinking of adding some el-wire or el-tape onto the wheel (on the shell) for better safety alert of night rides. I have not opened the V5F+ shell yet, not sure anyone has done this before using the internal power source of the V5F can share your advice. 

Thanks

[esaj]

I think the electroluminesence (sp?) -stuff needs fairly high (100V?) voltage and a sine-wave with a kilohertz or so of frequency (AC-voltage). Even if the battery voltage would be high enough, you might need some (semi-)complex circuitry to produce the frequency from the DC-voltage, plus make sure that the AC-signals don't interfere with other parts of the wheel through feedback or something. Really can't help much with that, as I'm still doing just DC-stuff, but the easiest route would be to use a separate power source (with built-in inverter) for the EL-wires/tapes.

[Chris Westland]

On 11/19/2016 at 2:19 PM, stevenvo said:

I'm thinking of adding some el-wire or el-tape onto the wheel (on the shell) for better safety alert of night rides. I have not opened the V5F+ shell yet, not sure anyone has done this before using the internal power source of the V5F can share your advice. 

Thanks

Maybe look at motorcycle and computer cold-cathode lights ... these are sturdy, well developed and compact (but they can't be easily curved like an LED strip).  LED strips are best for mods.