LED Retrofit - Lots of pictures

Looks nice.

I love Beagles.

Its a good dog.. She's smart as can be. Can sniff her way outta anything.


Night pictures.

Whats everyone think?

looks good, is the shape that noticable in person?? the d shape would kind of bug me.....

Yeah.. I designed them to look like that. I wanted it to be like a circular design, but it wasn't going to be possible on my s10 without putting a different set of tails in.

looks good, I like the directionals lighting up the middle.

I got thinking today looking over some of the pictures..

I think i'll swap all the cathodes outta my s10, and switch them with 200-300 LEDs between my entire interior, and build a PWM that can handle 2-4 Amps, and control all my interior LEDs with the PWM. That would be awesome.

I could just throw a Potentiometer on there and control the resistance, but say hello to uneven brightness patterns.

*EDIT* I just did the caculations.. I actually think the PWM can handle 3.5 Amps.. Thats a glorious answer right there.

^ that just blew my mind

LED interior is awesome dude. Everyone that see the LED's I put into my car loves them. 200 or 300 would be really awesome though.

Tim wrote:

^ that just blew my mind

In a good or bad way?

In a I didn't understand one word way, lol

Ahh..

Imagine 200-300 LEDs for my interior (Footwells, Cupholders, Vents, etc.).

A Pulse Width Modulator is a Driver. It'll send a pulsing signal out. It pulses so fast, that the human eye can't detect it. It'll make the LEDs look dimmer then they actually are, without changing their voltage.

When lower the voltage over a high number of LEDs, they all won't be the same brightness. Some will be brighter then others. The PWM (Pulse width Modulator) will even that out.

Some Pulse width modulators are only built to handle a certain amount of Amps. LEDs draw mA. With all the LEDs added up, i'll be running approximately 2.5-3 Amps, depending on the LEDs I use, and how many I run in series.

Now do ya understand lol?

Makes more sense now, yea. I just don't see why you'd want to make the LEDs dimmer.

For cruising purposes (set the mood with the lady friend, etc). 200 LEDs would be pretty **** bright if ya ask me, and I could have them on and drive, and still be able to see out my windows.

It'd be one of those things that aren't really needed, but pretty cool to have.

How quickly does the PWM you have switch?

I hooked an LED up to AC power and it is a very noticable flicker @60hz, since the LED has not warm up or cool down time like a filament.

I can drive with my D's on since they are so directional. It will look awesome when you are done. I can't imagine what 200 would look like. I only have about 30 in my car around the headliner and it is much brighter than the stock bulb lighting. 200 would be sick.

What do you mean by switch?

You can't tell that they are flickering in person, maybe once in a great while it'll flicker, but its not enough to notice. In the vid (on the first page, with the Blue LEDs in it) you can, but the frame rate and the PWM aren't synced together, and make it look like its flashing.