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 I still have them, I was planning to make a batch of 5 or 10 to start selling. Unfourtunately I have finals this week and I ran into someone in my celica

I will get a video up, ironically I ran into someone with my LED turn signal. I had to pick it up off of the street(the lens and housing were completely obliterated, but 90% of the LEDs still work. So success in real life crash test.