LED Third Brake Light, My Newest Design Options

[Special_Edy]

So I originally built a 58 Red LED third brake light and was dissatisfied with the result-








It was only about as bright as the OEM incandescent so it was back to the drawingboard.

I finally had time today to solder this together, it uses 97 5mm White LEDs(the maximum amount I could cram in). The current draw is apx. 9 watts and the service life is apx. 100,000 hours. It is bright like headlight bright.





First Layer of 57 LEDs-







Second layer of 40 LEDs, Finished!!!!!!-











And finally Video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh44hn_EBz4


If there is enough interest I may make some of these for 6gc members as well as some of the other exterior lights.

This post has been edited by Special_Edy: Nov 24, 2012 - 3:01 AM

[Special_Edy]

Yes Im definitely considering 1W or even 3W LEDS.

Im in the process of building the controller board for the sequential animation.

I have a 555 timer feeding three 4017 decade counters for the 24 seperate channels in the animation. All the outputs will go through transistors, resistors and capacitors then finally to the LEDs.


Basically when you hit the turn signal the pulse will turn on the computer and scroll the LEDs one cycle.

It will be easier to make duplicates once I get a working(ha!) board.