I don't know what the final form will look like in terms of wiring, but my understanding is that the upside down housings will now be grounded. Version 1 upside down units were not grounded through the housing and required the braided ground conductor of the co-axial cable for ground. If the new grounded housing allows use of the braided conductor for the taillight, they can get away with the same single 3mm co-axial cable that they've been using; no need for a third conductor for the taillight.
Before version 2, there was a clear design deficiency in the upside down version in that there was no taillight control. For the <1% of cyclists with the good fortune of having a custom stem-mounted switch, this obviated the need for taillight control to be built into the headlight. But for the rest of us, it was a clear problem. Enough of a problem that I had a lot of people coming to me to reverse-engineer their upside down Edeluxes to re-introduce this functionality, which I was able to do simply by replacing the co-axial cable with tri-axial cable and a little bit of micro-surgery on the circuit board (which had the taillight output circuit still there but unused, waiting for a wire to be soldered to it). I still do not understand why Schmidt did not use this type of wiring all along to allow the >99% of cyclists buying the upside down Edelux to be able to control a taillight without some type of external switch. Anton On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 12:58:24 PM UTC-5, Clayton.sf wrote: > > PJW site says there will be a rear light connector. Will this be on the > underside or on top of the light - rain issue? Maybe just a typo? > > On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11:31:30 AM UTC-8, Jan Heine wrote: >> >> They are already listed, but not yet in stock. ETA is late March. Since >> we were the instigator behind the project, we'll get them as well once they >> are available. >> >> Jan Heine >> Compass Bicycles Ltd. >> www.compasscycle.com >> >> Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ >> >> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 6:47:49 AM UTC-8, lungimsam wrote: >>> >>> Clayton, Peter White Cycles says they now have the upside down edeluxe >>> II. There are two models of it. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
