The first Audi look LED-tails Options

[BlackWidow]

Because everyone has the kouki tail lights, i'd like to try something new.
Drilling 80 holes with 80 leds, and 10 hours work on 1 taillight, is this the result.





This week i try to build the unit on the car, and then we will see how it look like.

[Box]

Would've been kind of hard to use SMD's in this instance. For one the curvature of the line would've made it a pain, and the fact the holes were drilled out and the LED's inserted would be more difficult with a SMD. Unless you baked open the light and could get SMD strips to fit into the crevice he used, that would be a little easier overall. The only thing I would've done differently on this install would've been to make a lot of arrays in series and wire them in parallel to greatly reduce the amount of resistors and soldering needed.

Looks cool and has a lot of possibilities. Would work great as a stop light or as a tail light. Kind of like the idea of using it as a stop light, really get people's attention.

This post has been edited by Box: Sep 18, 2013 - 1:58 PM

[The_enD]

Would've been kind of hard to use SMD's in this instance. For one the curvature of the line would've made it a pain, and the fact the holes were drilled out and the LED's inserted would be more difficult with a SMD. Unless you baked open the light and could get SMD strips to fit into the crevice he used, that would be a little easier overall. The only thing I would've done differently on this install would've been to make a lot of arrays in series and wire them in parallel to greatly reduce the amount of resistors and soldering needed.

Looks cool and has a lot of possibilities. Would work great as a stop light or as a tail light. Kind of like the idea of using it as a stop light, really get people's attention.

The SMD's can be cut every 5cm or every 3 LEDs (depends on the type tho) and then without any problems just connected to + and - wires. Additionally you can cut those 3 in and arrange them in whatever fashion as long as you keep the circuit the same as before (+-+-+-).
They are a lot smaller so the hole drilled for them will be too. They could of been mounted the same way he did with encased LEDs, just not taking up that much space and time soldering each.