My Pedalpower SIC has been sitting around on my desk for a while whilst I think about how to install it.
Upthread is mentioned that it is rather good electrically - and I don't have the knowledge to contradict that.
First the supplied handlebar bracket - only permits one orientation on the handlebars, and looks rather flimsy, and as my bars tend towards being crowded anyway this wasn't an option. Digging around in the various boxes in the garage I came up with a cheap Decathlon bar bag
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/25l-handlebar-pannier-id_5994533.html which fastens with just velcro straps. Unused because, on the bike I bought it for, it flopped around alarmingly, but on my Audax bike the cable arrangement holds it in place admirably.
So - holes made in bottom right corner for the cable coming in from the dynamo, and another just below the middle of the zip for an output to the Garmin; added an elastic band to hold the "box" et voila:
All tested and working just fine.
However the "piggyback" spade arrangement just has to go.
That is at a level of fugliness up with which I will not put - not to mention the chance of losing small parts in the grass when disconnecting it to attend to faerie visitations, or the fact that with the SIC cable wrapped around, or taped, to the fork blade, the bar bag is effectively "hard-wired" in to the bike, which is not good for cafe-stops.
What I really want is a single wire running from the Shimano "lego brick" connector on the hub, up the fork to the bag and the SIC, and then a wire back out to the light, all with some sort of 3-way quick disconnect/reconnect capability so the bag can come off easily. Doesn't need to be especially waterproof as hopefully it would be in the bag itself , and further protected by plastic bags as necessary, nor does it need any switching as the light and SIC have their own switches. Some sort of co-axial connector (like the one the SIC uses on the ouput to its various accessory ends) would be good as it would minimise the size of hole in the side of the bag, and an audax-tired mind would not have to think about connecting in any particular orientation.
Anyone got any good ideas on 3 way connectors that can be wired up by a simpleton ?