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Originally Posted by CobaltCoupeCrazy
More LED's with some one on circuit and some on the other. Pack in as many LED's as you can, I say. Say you stuff 12 in there; wire up 6 with the tail and 6 to the brake circuits. This way in tail mode they are lighted; in brake mode they are lighted and at night when the tails are lighted the # doubles when the brake is applied. Just another idea!! EDIT: Also if you wire them to the side lights, then it should only have three wires (I hope). A ground wire, brake light wire and the tail light wire; the brake light wire is used for the turn signal (I hope lik in older cars/trucks). If you wire up to these circuits then the lights will flash with signals, light up with tail lights and light up with brake lights too!!
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I just did the mod on mine. I have it hooked up as a parking light instead of brake lights I will put up pics when I get some taken.
I used 24 5mm LEDs rated at 50,000MCD per backup light
I used 24 5mm LEDs rated at 50,000MCD per backup light
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origami78 - I like! It looks great, nice job! I love how you guys have taken the write-up and run with it, making your own variations and such and setting up some great looking led's in your reverese lights. This is what makes this site so awesome, everyone learns and works with each other to make things happen, rather than mocking and arguing with each other.
OK, sorry went off track there for a minute.
Again, great job to all those that have attempted the mod and have met great success.
OK, sorry went off track there for a minute.
Again, great job to all those that have attempted the mod and have met great success.
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Great write up. It definitely takes the guess work out of it.
I was wanting to connect mine to the Running lights, so that they can be on the whole time. I know the wiring is less convenient, but would look way cooler having 4 tailights on all the time.
DAMN sucka! I want that. Tell us how YOU did it. That's what I have been thinking about. maybe post a auction that has the same LEDs that you used.
I was wanting to connect mine to the Running lights, so that they can be on the whole time. I know the wiring is less convenient, but would look way cooler having 4 tailights on all the time.
DAMN sucka! I want that. Tell us how YOU did it. That's what I have been thinking about. maybe post a auction that has the same LEDs that you used.
Last edited by Psykostevo; 01-30-2007 at 12:08 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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These are about what I used. Same vender I hooked 4 LEDs in series and then each group of 4 LEDs I have in parallel. I then hooked the negative wire to ground and the positive side to the brown wire on the tail light.
http://cgi.ebay.com/50pc-5mm-Super-B...em250070725753
http://cgi.ebay.com/50pc-5mm-Super-B...em250070725753
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These are about what I used. Same vender I hooked 4 LEDs in series and then each group of 4 LEDs I have in parallel. I then hooked the negative wire to ground and the positive side to the brown wire on the tail light.
http://cgi.ebay.com/50pc-5mm-Super-B...em250070725753
http://cgi.ebay.com/50pc-5mm-Super-B...em250070725753
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the brown wire is parking lights only the black is ground and the third wire is the brake/turn signal wire. I only have them on when the parking lights are on. I am thinking of putting a resistor on it to dim them and put diodes on it to have it go to full brightness when hitting the brakes or signaling but I decided for now I would just use them as parking lights.
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no the brown wire coming out of the brake lights is for the running lights. The Green wire is for those that want the inner tail to act as the brake/turn signal. I did mine today but forgot to put a resistor on the one set of leds and they blew out. So i'll be redoing those tomorrow.
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I did not use any resistors I put 4 LEDs in series the negative from one to the positive of the next that means that if you have a 12V source they are getting 3V each and at 15V 3.75V each
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Thats actually the two questions that I had:
1.) What Resistors do you have to put on the LED's for the tail-lights?
and
2.) How would you wire it up so that when you turned on your headlights the LEDs would glow dim and get brighter once you braked, just like your outer tail-lights?
1.) What Resistors do you have to put on the LED's for the tail-lights?
and
2.) How would you wire it up so that when you turned on your headlights the LEDs would glow dim and get brighter once you braked, just like your outer tail-lights?
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the brown wire is parking lights only the black is ground and the third wire is the brake/turn signal wire. I only have them on when the parking lights are on. I am thinking of putting a resistor on it to dim them and put diodes on it to have it go to full brightness when hitting the brakes or signaling but I decided for now I would just use them as parking lights.
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I'm pretty sure you would need a resistor and a diode off the brown wire and just a diode off the green wire. I am working on trying it out on mine with variable resistors so I can adjust the brightness. I will let you know what I find out.
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http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz
Thats actually the two questions that I had:
1.) What Resistors do you have to put on the LED's for the tail-lights?
and
2.) How would you wire it up so that when you turned on your headlights the LEDs would glow dim and get brighter once you braked, just like your outer tail-lights?
1.) What Resistors do you have to put on the LED's for the tail-lights?
and
2.) How would you wire it up so that when you turned on your headlights the LEDs would glow dim and get brighter once you braked, just like your outer tail-lights?
to answer number 2, the outer tail-lights use dual filament bulbs. The running lights run dimmer on one filament and the brake/turn are brighter on the second filament. but i would wait for origami to test out his to tell you how it goes.
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