led taillights
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led taillights
im gonna attempt to make custom lights in the shape of the chevy bowtie and a mirrored image of it for the passenger side of the car. it will have one for brake and running lights alternating leds for them. the next one inside of it will be for reverse. and the third inside of it will be for turn signals and 4 ways. i have started to fill the void were the black stripe is so i can make a negative of the lenses.
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Re: led taillights
stock taillights are temporarly filled to make a mold of the lenses need to pickup a heat gun to shape the lexan. all the leds and resistors are ordered just need to wait for them
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Re: led taillights
oh yea this is what im planning on doing the tops is drivers and the bottom is passenger. the black bowtie is what is going to be reverse lights. the bowties are gonna fit alot nicer in each other with led
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Re: led taillights
I got a whole bunch of these bowties if you need some.
Selling them 2/$12 inc shipping.
Selling them 2/$12 inc shipping.
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im making the bowties out of led when i get them. do you think the taillights would look mirrored like that in the pic i posted or them both facing the regular way
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Re: led taillights
Either way wb cool, mirrored seems more custom IMO.
Post up some finished pics and how you built it, neat project.
Post up some finished pics and how you built it, neat project.
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made a basic negative for the pass side today gonna do the same for drivers tommorrow using some of the lexan i have
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got the second negative done the leds should start arriving soon
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Re: led taillights
recieved the amber leds, 100ohn, 470ohn, and 1.5k ohm resistors in the mail today. now just have to wait for the red leds, white leds, and the 220 ohm resistor
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Re: led taillights
got everything and finished seeing how bright they accually are. whites going to be 3 leds with 1 220 ohm resistor reds are going to be 3 led 1.5k resistors for running and 470 ohm resistors for brake lights. and ambers are going to have 470 resistors. definately gonna notice the lights when done
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Re: led taillights
I'd like to see how this turns out, I had a similar idea months ago and never followed through
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Re: led taillights
cut the pieces were the leds are gonna get mounted in got 48 of 146 drilled. theres gonna be 48 10mm red leds for brake and running, 56 5mm white leds for reverse, and 42 10mm amber leds for turn signals. per lense
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Re: led taillights
heres the led holders for the taillights all the holes drilled into it gonna paint it black so you can see the leds clearly
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hopefully by the end of the night i will have at least the brake and running in one of the lenses and working
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heres some pics of it now. 1st pic is the running light circuit with 9 volts 2nd pic is how the leds are wired together
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reverse lights on the taillights couple leds not lit bc i didnt solder them at that point just twisted it around the power feed.
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Re: led taillights
heres a video of the taillights 1 panel is finished showing running brake reverse and turn
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/lmi...03409.mp4.html
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/lmi...03409.mp4.html
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heres a video of the taillights 1 panel is finished showing running brake reverse and turn
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/lmi...03409.mp4.html
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/lmi...03409.mp4.html
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Re: led taillights
to think i got the idea while just drawing random stuff in school
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Re: led taillights
Those look pretty good. Looking forward to seeing them when you have them mounted and functional.
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Re: led taillights
my question is if ones like these were being sold how much would people pay for them.
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Re: led taillights
what id like to see are some nice sequential LED taillights that cost less than $700
If you can find a cost effective way to make LED taillights there would definitely be a market, albeit a niche market, but still a market.
If you can find a cost effective way to make LED taillights there would definitely be a market, albeit a niche market, but still a market.
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I have LED sequential tails in my Camaro right now, they are not a full LED board like OP, but LED bulbs. If you did the same light board style and use BigBadLou's sequential system on the power supply you have yourself a sequential LED board for decent price.
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do you have pics of those?... that has to look awesome..
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I can't find the original thread, but BigBadLou makes them and ships them for $56 and gives you instructions too. He was even nice enough to walk me through on the phone as the wires in '82 were a little different.
As far as I know, this is the last thread written about them, it is a bit dated but he may still have a few left.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/elec...als-batch.html
As far as I know, this is the last thread written about them, it is a bit dated but he may still have a few left.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/elec...als-batch.html
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btw, this is not a whole new taillight system, just a small device you run all of your wiring through to alter how the taillights function. As you may have noticed in the video, I have no stock reverse light due to this and had to make my own, other than that, they are great, haven't had an issue yet.
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btw, this is not a whole new taillight system, just a small device you run all of your wiring through to alter how the taillights function. As you may have noticed in the video, I have no stock reverse light due to this and had to make my own, other than that, they are great, haven't had an issue yet.
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custom, you can have a paint shop do it for you, but I just bought VHT red and blackout. Painted the turn signal and reverse lights red until all the lenses were the same shade and then blacked them all out.
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I've been looking at these for my '90:
Spaghetti Engineering Digi-Tails
There's a video clip on the page that shows them "in action". Price is $319.00 plus shipping.
Spaghetti Engineering Digi-Tails
There's a video clip on the page that shows them "in action". Price is $319.00 plus shipping.
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