I wanted to ask you about parking lights and the license plate lights. What LED bulbs do you recommend? I keep buying 168 type white ones from superbrightleds.com and yea they work and theyre bright enough, problem is, they keep dying on me every 2 - 3 months, and changing the LED in the headlight housing as you now is a royal pain in the ***. What would you recommend I use and where should I buy it from? Also what do you recommend I use for the front turn signal bulbs. One of the two is half dead and the other is perfect. I love the way they look but damn its frustrating when they dont last

Thanks for your help!

 

My superhright.com's kept burning out as well. I bought a set from ARES (forum member) and they have been installed for a while. Still working strong.

 

heh, superbright's who i got my leds from.. they're local to me.. hopefully my stuff will last (though my amber leds themselves came off a traffic light )

 

maxpowers, what bulbs did you buy from acree exactly? and how much were they if you dont mind me asking?

 

The set of lights he bought were from ARES, not me. Ares makes Luxeon Star parking lights. The superbright led bulbs are decent, but I too have had issues with them burning out. I would say the best thing to do is to make your own array and retrofit it into the housing. I have found that this is much more reliable than buying a plug and play bulb.

 

Thanks for the part.. I figured out which one to order from the store that I usually order from..

What other moficiation do I need from that 10 sequential diagram.. you said something about using 10uF cap....??

 

Yeah, look at the website with the original diagram. Look right under the 10 LED Sequential, at the 18 LED circuit. There's a cap and resistor add-on that goes to the reset pin I think. Here's a quote.

"When power is applied, the 15K resistor and 10uF cap at pin 15 will reset the counters to the zero count where pin 3 is at +12 and all other outputs are at zero."

 

prrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

Hey guys, I just want to get a feel on the initial interest for the group buy. If everything goes right, I will start the group buy on May 1st. The target price for the sequential turn with stock reverse lights will be around $450. I will have many options available including the luxeon reverse lights and just a constant on/off led array. The price will vary with each option. If you are interested in participating in the group buy please put your name on the list. I will have more info and prices the closer we get to May.

-Acree


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You going to need any help producing them? I could help out if you drop your knowledge on me! hehe

 

Honestly I'll be done with school around the 8th of May. I think I will have enough free time.

-Acree

 

Sweet, if you havnt made them all yet I will give you all the help I can offer.

EDIT: if you havent put this in the inventor forums you probably should.

 

Good idea. I guess I need to get "Inventor" status or something huh?

-Acree

 

I'm not to sure how it works, I am consumer, not an inventor!

 

I will likely be very interested in LED non-sequential turn signal + Luxeon reverse depending on price. Could we get an idea on what that option would cost?

 

1. Krank (all in)

 

I've finally got them, but it doesn't work....
Only two latch on.... rest of them still turns off....

This is what I've ordered...
https://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/st...oductId=211431

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong...

 

The problem is the decade counter output voltage is not high enough to trip the SCR. Use the exact ones I linked you to. Other than that man, you're on your own.

-Acree

 

I did get the 2N5064, exact same as website you linked..
I guess I'll try to order it from your link then.....

 

ohhhhh dang (i might be late on this but) acree is considering production....damn im so up in this come may .....id also want to learn how to work leds...but messing around with my car is definitely a no no....keep updating acree