My ongoing LED conversion...
03-21-2007, 07:08 PM
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Can you photoshop a picture like my version 1? The 12 outer leds are just barley inside the reflector and the 8 inner leds are for the breaks. Thanks.
03-21-2007, 07:48 PM
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https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...chmentid=73673
that is the first one i made i made 3 deffrent time now i used a r32 led tail light and cut the circle part out and replaced in the circle part were the stop light goes
that is the first one i made i made 3 deffrent time now i used a r32 led tail light and cut the circle part out and replaced in the circle part were the stop light goes
03-21-2007, 08:11 PM
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http://s163.photobucket.com/albums/t290/yushinrt/ go there iput some photo up there old but they are good well yea um how i opened i kind of basted the **** out of it ay
03-21-2007, 10:17 PM
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I think the lense and the reflector is actually one piece and you can't just remove the lense itself without breaking the reflector and then if you do remove it, you would end up with a gray ring that is visible in yushinrt pics. sorry my memory is fuzzy because I cut it out before
03-21-2007, 11:12 PM
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yea cayn25 is right the first set i made i can't remember but i had to distory it all then put mini reflectore from somewere i don't remember but the secand one i used refecter from some old tail light but the 3rd one i made i used tail light from the after market led kit taillight for r32 2door cut the stop light part on the rx-8 meser it up and put it back to geather .
i advace you to get a spear tail light from some were it has risk of doing this because if you brake it that is it it not like screw on or any thing and if you do this watch out for water leak i had that problem with my first one i made.
good luck
i advace you to get a spear tail light from some were it has risk of doing this because if you brake it that is it it not like screw on or any thing and if you do this watch out for water leak i had that problem with my first one i made.
good luck
03-22-2007, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Aipex8
I can tomorrow, I was at work when doing the photoshop and just got home so I don't have that file here. And yeah, I do live 5 minutes from work 
03-22-2007, 03:28 PM
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OK, OK, boss, so let me get this straight before starting. You want 12 LEDs in a circle to the inside of the reflector ring? Then 8 in a circle inside of that? You want to leave the red lense in place, right?
OK, the big question, what are the LEDs going to be mounted on? This is crucial to the "lights off" look, needs to look good, can't just have LEDs mounted to circuit board because the lense isn't textured so you can see everything.
OK, the big question, what are the LEDs going to be mounted on? This is crucial to the "lights off" look, needs to look good, can't just have LEDs mounted to circuit board because the lense isn't textured so you can see everything.
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sorry, just got back from lunch. I plan on using a piece of plexi-glass with holes for the leds. The back of the plexi-glass will be painted black or red. The circuit board will be hidden behind the plexi-glass. Your understanding of the led placement is correct and I would be keeping the red lens.
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03-27-2007, 12:53 AM
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Well, I got the LEDs today. All 290 of them. lol
I decided to go with the HP super flux's over the traditional round 5mm LEDs. These have an awesome viewing angle of 120 degrees.
These are square base LED's which is going to make the fabercation process much more difficuilt than I had planed.
The tail lights should be here wedesday.
I decided to go with the HP super flux's over the traditional round 5mm LEDs. These have an awesome viewing angle of 120 degrees.
These are square base LED's which is going to make the fabercation process much more difficuilt than I had planed.
The tail lights should be here wedesday.
03-27-2007, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Rotary Rasp
These are square base LED's which is going to make the fabercation process much more difficuilt than I had planed.
At first I thought these might be for light-pipes, but then they wouldn't bother with a 120-degree viewing angle.You got a buddy who can do CNC in a machine shop for you?
03-27-2007, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Cool-Blue-Dad
That's messed up. What's HP thinking? "Yeah, all our customers can just drill square holes." At first I thought these might be for light-pipes, but then they wouldn't bother with a 120-degree viewing angle.
You got a buddy who can do CNC in a machine shop for you?
At first I thought these might be for light-pipes, but then they wouldn't bother with a 120-degree viewing angle.You got a buddy who can do CNC in a machine shop for you?
From what I understand, the reason they are square is because they use four lead contacts in order to help dissipate heat to the circuit board. These are 80ma modules which are about four times more powerful then standard round LEDs; however, since they have such a large viewing angle they don't look as intense as the 25,000mcd LEDs I used in my center brake light when looking at them dead on.
From what I hear, super flux's were designed for automotive trail lights and are exclusively used by auto manufactures for this purpose.
As for drilling holes, well, any input would be helpful because I don't know how i'm going to drill square holes.
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