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Hmm fair point, I just double checked teh specs and the brake like (technically tail light) i'm thinking of using is 4.8 watts. Now I don't recall if my kart has 20w output or 40w output. It was an incandescent light bulb so I think maybe it has a 40w capacity. The 18w off road lights, I've put...

I'm perfectly content with ~20watt lights and simply not using them all at the same time. If I need to light up a zone behind me, that means i won't at that moment need to look ahead. And a brake light will only be about 1 watt so that doesn't even count.

One of these days, I'm going to put an AC DC rectifier on my kart and wire up a bright LED headlight and LED tail light. Then I had an idea of putting a headlight on the back too, so I could potentially be on a trail at night and light up behind the cart of I'm doing some quick trail work or...

Lol I wasn't really going for that miniature V8 lol. I'm thinking more like a 49cc moped type motor.

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Hmm haven't thought that far ahead yet. I suppose a centrifugal clutch would be the easiest way to go.

I have this idea bouncing around in my head. But it requires a small engine. Probably the smaller the better. But I very much want it to be an air-cooled 4-cycle. So harbor freight has a 3 HP, 79cc engine thats $130. That could work but smaller would work better. A few years ago, I had a...

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Got any pics of this project?

Ok I was thinking about this today while driving home from work and i had an idea to potentially make this work better. Take a motor with a horizontal engine, but the shaft coming out of the top, not the bottom. Mount that directly on the engine plate. Then put a giant aluminum disk on TOP of...

Has anyone ever used a snow blower style transmission in a go kart to make it manual? Before we go on, please understand that this is just a curious thought I had. I have ZERO interest in doing this, I think it would likely be a terrible idea. But it also seems like it would probably work...

I had one a couple years ago but there are so many other things i need first, who knows when or if a gearbox would ever happen. But I think i'd like something kind of like a riding mower gearbox with a 1:1 forward gear, plus a few lower forward gears, plus a reverse. All that still connected to...

I do need some kind of gearbox but thats a whole other project.

It's a shame I can't take it out of gear and set it to idle at a higher RPM for when I want to use a rear spotlight. even though that will be a situation i would very rarely be in.

This is what I used on my snow blower: https://www.superbrightleds.com/12v-ac-to-dc-converter-module-3-amps No flickering at speed. I'm not sure if it flickers at idle. It spends so little time idling. Next time is snows, if it ever snows again, ill pay more attention to how it runs. Although I...