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« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2011, 08:37:39 AM » |
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« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2011, 10:13:44 AM » |
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my nephew work,s with electronics (harry hotrod) he also use,s led,s so i ,nabded, some of him last night ,, gonna have a play  . could end upwith a dash board panel for my trike  Make sure you show some photos of your finished master piece I found this site very useful for working out resistor values for the LEDs http://led.linear1.org/led.wizNathan |
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« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2011, 10:16:30 AM » |
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Best place to start would be to draw a box on a piece of paper the max size you want the light and then draw small circles how you want the LEDs laid out. Standard sizes are 3 or 5mm diamater. |
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« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2011, 10:23:36 AM » |
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Something like this  Homemade custom LED lights  |
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« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2011, 10:28:37 AM » |
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You also need to decide how you want to mount the light. Do you want the LEDs inside a standard rectangular/round light housing or perhaps have the LEDs flush mounted into a body panel/wing. If you plan to mount it into a housing then you'll be better of with a PCB. If mounting into a body panel you could get away with each LED (with a resistor) being wired seperately to the 12V supply.
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« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2011, 02:44:18 PM » |
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« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2011, 06:17:20 PM » |
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Im making some indicators for someone next week so would you like me to price up what it would cost to make a bollox brake light for you? |
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« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2011, 06:48:44 PM » |
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« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2011, 07:57:43 PM » |
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Is it for a car/trike/something else? How do you want it mounted? What size? |
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« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2011, 08:25:59 PM » |
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will PM a size tomorrow ok?
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« Reply #25 on: May 13, 2011, 08:45:35 PM » |
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will PM a size tomorrow ok?
Yep thats fine |
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« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2011, 08:51:30 PM » |
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Wow, that's really impressed me,(honestly) I can just about switch on a light. I can't do electronics.
240 LED's soldering for ages I'll bet. Must have loads of patience, and some to spare. Nice work.
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« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2011, 08:36:47 AM » |
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Thanks Klogan I finished the Aussie's side lights and mirror indicators over the weekend so thought I'd add a couple of finished photos. The marker light boards are now mounted inside the housings for a 69 Mustang. I had to cut the bodies apart, insert the boards and then glue back together. I hope nothing ever goes wrong with the lights as the only way to get them out is to cut them out!  Homemade custom LED lights  Homemade custom LED lights And here are the LEDs to be mounted into his side mirrors.  Homemade custom LED lights Nathan |
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« Reply #28 on: May 16, 2011, 08:05:32 PM » |
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Nice work there Galaxie.
Are you aware that you can get current regulators for led's rather than resistors. The benefits being that you will get perfect matching between Led brightness and less chance of a failure due to over voltage. Handy if you doing built in hard to get out lights!
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« Reply #29 on: May 16, 2011, 08:39:17 PM » |
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Nice work there Galaxie.
Are you aware that you can get current regulators for led's rather than resistors. The benefits being that you will get perfect matching between Led brightness and less chance of a failure due to over voltage. Handy if you doing built in hard to get out lights!
Hi, On the tail lights i made i used voltage regulators. on the smaller lights i wanted to do the same but didnt have room. I may use a regulator external to the lights just to be safe. I'll have a look at what you suggest for possible future use. Cheers |
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