Saturday, August 18, 2018

Run Red Run: Taillight Unbox

Unboxed the new taillight.  Was in decent shape, though needs a sanding and repaint eventually.

Found that the bulb was good, but only the taillight was working when wired up and even then it was spotty.  The brake light wasn't coming on at all.

Ended up bending the tabs in the housing upwards so that they'd make more contact with the bulb and that seemed to do the trick.

But then found that you can't ground to the mount itself because of the paint... but if that's true, then how was it supposed to work.  Realized it was a lot easier and more reliable to just add a separate dedicated ground wire.

Also built up and installed the clutch on the model engine.






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