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Prone 04-27-2009 06:20 PM


Originally Posted by cheneymatthews (Post 7258670)
.... I checked out Mouser and it sounds like you need a pretty extensive background in electrical engineering in order to adjust discharge capacities for use in a 12V setting.

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Not really, there are sites that do the math for you. http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz Simple rule of thumb, any color running at 3.5v, in this case white, can be ran in a series circuit of four, it's all in the math. One more thing, you said each LED you are running puts out 25kmcd, at those power levels heat starts to become an issue, not to mention the heat generated by the bi-xenon already. Long story short, your LEDs are going to burn out very quickly.

Nick-VTR 04-28-2009 05:04 AM

Yep.... it looks pretty bad.

Although it could work. You just need fewer LEDs and more spaced out... and STRAIGHT..! :D

http://www.fourtitude.com/news/uploa...ed_600_003.jpg

http://img.ledsmagazine.com/objects/...23/AudiR82.jpg

FliPPER_Z 04-28-2009 08:51 AM


Originally Posted by cheneymatthews (Post 7258744)
12V DC READ 5mm Super Flux 25Kmcd White LED 120° from TopBright in China.

you are probably using a simple resistors for each LED... with no voltage regulators....thats another reason why they burn out... , car makers use PWM + Resistors + Voltage regulators to drive LEDs

http://usera.ImageCave.com/samr350z/fail.jpg

xdrius 04-28-2009 11:53 PM


Originally Posted by 3FIDDYZED (Post 7257466)
FYI, AJ Panchal's original designs show the Zed with LED strip sidelights, LED sidemarkers and LED's in the door handles where the 3 square dots are for illumination when you open the car.... The only reason these wernt on the original car was down to production costs...

Really? Do you have images of the original Z sketches of Ajay?
It'll be real interesting to look at.

3FIDDYZED 04-29-2009 12:02 AM


Originally Posted by xdrius (Post 7266673)
Really? Do you have images of the original Z sketches of Ajay?
It'll be real interesting to look at.

He gave us a talk at the UK Owners yearly meet. He had drawings used for the talk with him which he kindly auctioned off... As there not "scanable" I can ask the guys that won the auction to take a photo and post that up if your interested... The guy kindly signed all our cars too!!

JonnyRod 04-29-2009 04:57 PM

reminds me of christmas lights when looking up close

Escobar 04-29-2009 05:21 PM

Doesn't look too bad at night; however there are way too many of them. Best of luck on the next try.

Zenica 04-29-2009 08:17 PM

Props to you for trying.

But...

and you knew a but was coming...

But, you helped solidify my decision to get Dr. Venture to do mine.

gr8scott_o 04-29-2009 10:59 PM

I think you had a unique way of doing the Halo mod. Props for that!

You have added information to the community. Props for that!

Sometimes, one may be serving as an example of what NOT to do. I am sure I have worn those shoes once or twice in my life. I would like to think that in each example, I (and others) learned valuable lessons at my expense.

So, in this case, the community learned what closely-spaced LED strip lights look like.

Additionally, the community learned that great care needs to be taken when drilling into the headlight surround.

If movies are to be believed, doctors practice on cadavers to learn how to work on live patients without killing them.

In this case, I think your lights served as the cadavers.

If you want to turn your lights from cadavers to zombies (back from the dead and 10X cooler!), hit me up on www.conoc.net (COlorado Nissan Owners Club). We are kinda-sorta local to you, and I will be hosting a tech day in June to work on headlight mods.


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