How-To: Installing Superflux LEDS in Door panel.

Materials:

-20 Pre-wired Superflux Leds (your color choice)
-1 Spool of Red 18ga. Wire
-1 Spool of Black 18ga. Wire
-4 Insulated Male plugs
-4 Insulated Female plugs
-A bag of Butt Conectors (the little things you squeeze together)
-Electrical Tape
-About 6 Scotch Locks
-3/8" drill bit (will need to ream out the sides a little)
-Drill or Dremal
-Wire strippers
-Super glue (OR) silicon, crazy glue, hot glue(maybe)
-Time and Patients




Step ONE-

Drill your 10 holes in the bottom of your door panel (you figure out where to space em)

USE 3/8" bit!




Step TWO-

"Ream" out the holes, making them the right size for the Superflux's.

*NOTE* Dont "ream" out the holes too much, or your Superflux will fall out.


Step THREE-

GLUE your lights into place, once you've positioned them into your holes.




Step FOUR-

Cut and strip your wires, connect pos+ to pos+ and Neg- to Neg-. Add your BUTT connectors




Step FIVE-

Connect your Pos+ from your 5 SuperFlux's to the other 5 Superflux's
Do the same for the negatives.




Step SIX-

Add Pos+ lead out wire (too hook to stock "door-pin" Pos+ wire.)
Add Neg- lead out wire (too hook to stock "door-pin" Neg- Wire)




Step SEVEN

DISCONNECT YOUR BATTERY, cut into the "Door-pin" wires, Connect your Pos+ and Neg- from your lights to the Pos+ and Neg- of your Door-pin wires.




Step EIGHT

Put your dash back together, Clip in your door panel (if you havn't already), Reconnect your battery, Open your door or flip your switch...and watch as your Superflux courtesy lights light up the ground!



*SIDE NOTE*
Make sure you leave the Hardware store with all the stuff you paid for...I had to go back and get more of the blue Connector thingies...cause I didn't leave with all of them.


ALSO will post more pictures when I actually install the panels on my truck (should be done Sunday)




All lit up. I was a little shaky for some reason





How much they stick out

Pink or red? I'm guessing red b/c I think you new S10 was red. Oh well, nice write up.

Nice write-up.

Tdawgthegreatest wrote:

[ THESE ^^^ are the things I didn't know what they were called...

Those would be Scotch Locks, a neat device but not always the best to do since over time they can cause wire failure and connection problems (can lead to bad connection ghosts).... This being said I still use them



Nice write up, tho if you're using the super flux units I'd like to see an unlit picture of the bottom of the door showing how exposed the leds are....

For the record, if anyone is wanting to do this, here's some hard number. I spaced my Superfluxes 4 inches apart, and the bottom of my door is 15" off the ground. I have 2 alternating colors, and you can't tell on the ground, the space gives them enough room to blend.

Nice write-up, I was going to do a how-to when I did mine, but something malfunctioned in my camera and none of the film pics I took developed. Oh well... Good Job

I think i spaced mine...3 inches apart.

it was 30 inches from the first SF to the last SF

Starting at zero and going to 27inches...Is what I ended up with

And I do beleive I have a picture of how exposed they are..

awesome wirte up! ima try this now

nice write up..but u should ALWAYS solder your wires..crimping them increase the chance of connection problems

blktbon20s wrote:

nice write up..but u should ALWAYS solder your wires..crimping them increase the chance of connection problems

That's the way I did mine, it takes a lot longer, but solder and heat shrink is the way to go....

ESPECIALLY FOR A DOOR PANEL... most of them can/do get water in them, it could cause a short with bad connections or without waterproofing.

I had a soldering iron...buuuuuuuuuuut laziness got the best of me and I didn't want to use it. And I think Im going to be replacing my door panels eventually anyways. Carbonfiber for the win!

do you have a picture of you door open and them on ?

i was going to do something like this but nice write up man keep it up and yea take some pics of the whole car while the doors are open and lit up

Dam262a wrote:

do you have a picture of you door open and them on ?

Tdawgthegreatest wrote:

ALSO will post more pictures when I actually install the panels on my truck (should be done Sunday)

No, he doesn't, but I do...

PIC HERE
Those are 7 superfluxes, alternating in color between (3)green and (4)white, spaced 4 inches apart, 15 inches off the ground...

Not trying to steal your thread...

there they be...Took on the cell phone, mainly because I dont have a great Camera. But its damn bright in person. And looks terrific.

Excellent DIY. I will refer to this as I do my simple one LED in RX-8 coinbox.

good write up

As I cannot edit my origional...sorry for the resurrection

holy **** thats bright.. good job on it

Look at Tdawg rockin the sweater.

^ Hell yeah dude, Its got black fur in it too :D

and its Fox...Imma Fox *****.

Nice write-up man!

i would do this but im not very familular with taking the dash apart and am too scared

^^^I didnt take the dash apart.

Tdawgthegreatest wrote:

Step EIGHT Put your dash back together, Clip in your door panel (if you havn't already), Reconnect your battery, Open your door or flip your switch...and watch as your Superflux courtesy lights light up the ground!

if you need to...i just took the bulb out of the holder under my dash...and tapped into it