33flavors' Custom LED Marker/Turn Thread

[OG]

***This is not a how-to.***

J sent me the retrofitted parking/turn signal portion of the Y33 lights he bought from Japan.





He wanted a color change and they could definitely use some cleaning up.

Since I have your attention, I'd like to point out the difference between a detail and attention to detail. A LED retrofitted turn signal inside of a dual projector retrofitted headlight is a high level of detail. This is not attention to detail:







After some cleaning we have an almost fresh canvas:





And that's where we are at today. Most parts/supplies have been ordered or are already in possession. Once everything arrives and I get the go ahead on a design I'll move forward.

Stay tuned...

[burgy]

Sick! Love it already!

[33flavors]

I'm pumped - thanks you cleaned that up nicely

[dzznuts671]

subscribe!!

[Brokey33]

LED's are fun
Lookin forward to the final outcome

[navajo_drifter]

meee tooo

[OG]

the last of the parts arrived so i spent today working on them. unfortunately i ran into some (what i thought were) issues and didn't make a whole lot of progress. i later talked to j and we discussed the project in a little more detail so tomorrow should be productive. here's what occurred early in the day, as it turns out this should work fine:



here's the board i am using. it is flexible punch board. a little pricey but worth it for curved projects. as you can see i cut an appropriately sized strip and sanded it down for fitment. the housing isn't perfectly square so there will be some small gaps (booo). the board was also supposed to be black but all that was available was green. this caused some problems for me but i think we've got it straightened out.



i decided to use a preexisting curve. this should blend into the housing well and will give more front-firing light.



i then cuts some slits in the housing. you'll see why. i'll clean them up as much as possible before the final assembly.



the flexible strip fed through the cuts. this will 1) make the curve, and 2) make a clean mount.



here is how it looks from the front.

the next several hours were completely wasted.

[berlinas2k2]

Looks great. Soldering LED's is a PITA.

[Green Poupon]

Very, very, VERY interesting. I'm definitely following this thread.

[mad-ass]

Subbed.
Maybe I'll get back into LED projects after seeing this progress!

[RedGalant2k1]

Looks great!

[xseveredveganx]

After seeing these couple LED projects going on, I think I'm going to give some a whirl.

[Green Poupon]

***This is not a how-to.***

But it should be...

[OG]

put in a couple more hours. first thing on the agenda was painting the housings. between removing the old stuff and fitting the new the chrome had gotten kind of messed up. jermaine assured me that it wasn't really necessary but i couldn't let it go.



here they are in progress. the closer one is painted, further is prepped. had i had more time this would have been a perfect chance to try something like alsa's killer chrome but instead i just scuffed them, hit em with an adhesion promoter, and sprayed some rusto rattle can chrome. looks real flat in the pic.



in person it looks like an oem wheel silver. pretty nice imo, even though you will probably never see it on the car.



here's the main led arrays. i went with 3mm leds because of the size of the project. i really like how the spacing turned out. they are 22,000 mcd so they should be bright enough. everything will be connected on the backside tomorrow.

[CubanGS]

beautiful craftsmanship!!

[dzznuts671]

lovin it!! where did you get your flex board from? ive been wanting to try the killer krome also. Have you used it before? wondering if its worth the price tag. cant wait to see the updates!!

[gato]

looking good there big mike... thats some nice board that is flexible.

[DD9512F]

sick!! cant wait to see this at spocom!!

[Rodneyc77]

looking great Mike...

Are you making multiple circiuts with different colors lighting up? For example, I did my own side turnsignals that would light up white when the parking light was on (constant) and when I hit the turnsignal they would alternate from white orange (blinking).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmoX...layer_embedded

[OG]

thanks everyone.

lovin it!! where did you get your flex board from? ive been wanting to try the killer krome also. Have you used it before? wondering if its worth the price tag. cant wait to see the updates!!

the flexible board is from taiwan via ebay. never used the killer chrome but i'll give it a shot sooner or later.

looking great Mike...

Are you making multiple circiuts with different colors lighting up? For example, I did my own side turnsignals that would light up white when the parking light was on (constant) and when I hit the turnsignal they would alternate from white orange (blinking).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMmoX...layer_embedded

the main section will be white parking lights and in the 3 outer slits there will be red turn signals. depending on how the get wired on the car they could operate a couple ways.