interest in interior LED light bars?

gearbox · 03-19-2006

I made a small prototype, but the larger ones will be 8x the size and have double the LEDs. I did blue, but others colors like white, red, pink etc are possible.

I would price the large kit at $25 shipped for TWO bars ready to be wired. A good alternative to paying that same price for a single led bar at the store. And mine are much brighter.

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clrumivier4life · 03-19-2006

What would you use it for?

gearbox · 03-19-2006

lighting up under the seats or door pockets, or under the dash. or under the hood for shows?

clrumivier4life · 03-19-2006

does it work well? I'm sure there are more creative ways to use these...like... what if you could bend the plexiglass (?) and use it as an outline to accent parts of the car... wowwwwwwww i want to do something like this now...

gearbox · 03-19-2006

ya the plexi is thin enough to bend, so i guess you could use it to light up the fender wells

would be great for audio setups in the trunk. i have pieces upto 30 inches long and 2 inch wide so custom shapes are possible.

clrumivier4life · 03-19-2006

can you heat it up to get it bent a lot? where do you get this plexiglass, I want to play with it now. Also, where do you get your led's and how much do you pay? One place by me wants 5 bucks for each blue one! Another place was like 1.50 or something, the 5 dollar ones are brighter though. Too bad my brother fried it because he didn't beleive me about using a resistor.

gearbox · 03-19-2006

ya they're expensive. i have an overseas supplier so i always get the brightest ones. those blue are 10,000mcd, and i have some white that are 50,000. i can't spare any now because of projects, but when i get the next shipment I'll send you some for cheap. I get em for around $1 a piece when i get bulk.

the plexi is thin enough that you can bend it but it always goes back to straight. its pretty flexible. check out some hardware stores like home depot, lowe's, etc

01HonderCivic · 03-19-2006

Do you think these could be made to fit in between the doorsils...Possibly to make a glowing Civic logo?

FALKEN · 03-20-2006

moved

05reverb · 03-23-2006

do you sell those leds and resistors? cause I bought 100 leds with resitors on ebay, and they are total junk, they always go out, probably the resisters are too low ohms, anyways i would like to buy some from you cause your leds are probably better quality. if you don't want to sell them seperatly, then how much would you charge to ship 2 bars like that to canada? thanks.

By the way, that is fu**in bright, hehehe

gearbox · 03-23-2006

i actually bought the ebay pink leds for my cluster projects and they work great. Are you sure you used the right resistor? Don't blame the led for your install. And remember your car puts out 14.4v when on, not 12. That does make a difference.

05reverb · 03-23-2006

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Originally Posted by gearbox

i actually bought the ebay pink leds for my cluster projects and they work great. Are you sure you used the right resistor? Don't blame the led for your install. And remember your car puts out 14.4v when on, not 12. That does make a difference.

when i bought the leds on ebay, i got the resistors with them, and they said it was for wiring in a car. i don't know if they meant on a car not running (at 12 volts) but if so, they are not too smart cause they should know that some people want their leds on when the car is on (14.4 volts). mine were really cheap, i got 100 leds & 100 resisters for like 15$ US shipped and everything from hong kong or someplace like that. who did you buy them from on ebay?
did you try them at 14.4 volts?

mine worked too for few days, then one would go dim, then the other, then sometimes they wouldn't come on at all, then finnaly completly died. I had 2 on top of each foot, and i replaced them like 3-4 times and always same problem.

gearbox · 03-23-2006

wow hmm maybe i gotta do some testing and just leave one connected to the battery overnight. that wouldn't drain would it?

05reverb · 03-24-2006

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Originally Posted by gearbox

wow hmm maybe i gotta do some testing and just leave one connected to the battery overnight. that wouldn't drain would it?

but you pay more for you r leds than i did, so yours are probably better quality or your resistors might match more with the 14.4 volts, all i know, my resistors are not the right ohms or the leds are crap. and no, leaving on on a car battery wont drain it overnight, it doesn't use much power. But you should maybe test it at 14.4 volts for a while. What ohm resistors did you get with your leds? if you don't know the ohms, what are the stripe colours?

gearbox · 03-24-2006

i'm not sure, but for most of my projects I use 4 in series so the resistor i need becomes one 68 ohm for the whole 30+ leds. cause they're wired in parallel so its like having 4 leds and thats it, with each one sapping some power. like if each led has 3v forward voltage and you have 4 in a row, then at 12v power you dont need a resistor.