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« Reply #105 on: July 21, 2006, 09:05:21 PM » |
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Just dug out a flyer for these guys. They had a stall at the recent Billing rodrun. They do a plastic dashboard mounted housing with 6 LEDs behind labelled lenses a bit like Byz's setup. 30 quid plus 4 postage. Lots of other 'leccy stuff, including some really neat little metal toggle switches with tiny coloured LEDs built into the ends. www.s-v-c.co.ukinfo@s-v-c.co.uk08456-581251. Stafford Vehicle Components. |
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« Reply #106 on: July 21, 2006, 09:12:49 PM » |
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Ignore the bit about 12v cos is not what you normally get on auto electrics.
Let me know what colours you want and the lead length and I will make em up for you with the correct resistors to suit your vehicles leccy system. You have to limit the current that flows through them not the voltage.
Led's are very sensitve to voltage variations. 1/2 a volt increase will up the current by perhaps 200% and will blow them.
Leds only cost pennies to buy and vary in brightness and quality quite a bit.
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« Reply #107 on: July 21, 2006, 09:18:01 PM » |
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That applies to all in Manky World. I have many types of leds and they vary from the tiny dim ones that show that your telly is on standby to ones that will light up your garden and will almost blind you. Manky Will do an article soon on the subject if you like!  |
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« Reply #108 on: July 21, 2006, 09:18:46 PM » |
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Ah, of course, I'd forgotten -LEDs are your business aren't they Byz! A very useful chappie to know!
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« Reply #109 on: July 21, 2006, 09:22:02 PM » |
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Yes please Byz! A volunteer contributor! I usually have to badger 'em for months to write anything! I haven't got a garden -got any window box ones?
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« Reply #110 on: July 21, 2006, 09:41:52 PM » |
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Nice one Byz.
That was a good link Manky some lovely old retro stuff on there reckon that link should go in the commercial section ?
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« Reply #112 on: July 21, 2006, 09:48:02 PM » |
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Done Mr Boarder. Did you see the LED warning light panel & toggle switches I was on about? Byz, that's never gonna get through the MSVA! |
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« Reply #113 on: July 21, 2006, 09:49:43 PM » |
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Ah......... a trike designed like a window box?  seen a few on Ebay |
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« Reply #114 on: July 21, 2006, 09:58:17 PM » |
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Done Mr Boarder. Did you see the LED warning light panel & toggle switches I was on about?
Yep quite tidy. Byz did you design that for your Beetle trike, i've seen real ones in the new beetle |
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« Reply #115 on: July 21, 2006, 10:00:59 PM » |
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I've seen a trike that looked like a skip!
Bog standard Reliant cut off at waist height with alumminium fake skip body fitted over the top.
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« Reply #116 on: July 21, 2006, 10:03:09 PM » |
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Just noticed someone stole their gazebo between those two pictures!  |
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« Reply #118 on: July 21, 2006, 10:21:24 PM » |
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Thats my ideal car! Get up in the morning and some bastard has dumped a 2CV in it.
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« Reply #119 on: July 21, 2006, 10:32:05 PM » |
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Yeah -that's why I like it! Can't see it getting through MOTs somehow so reckon they must take the skip body off once a year.
This guy's a regular at local bike meets. Not sure if it's the same one, but well known car customiser Andy Saunders built one very similar back in the early 80s. Same idea -standard Reliant with new bodywork.
He drives it in a diving mask & snorkel & Haiwan shirt. When he parks up he chucks an anchor out onto the tarmac! I've seen this out on the motorway in the pouring rain -very surreal!
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