Custom LED indicators
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Re: Custom LED indicators
If someone is thick/careless enough to run into the back of you, they will do it regardless of indicator colour.
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Re: Custom LED indicators
I would be tempted to modify a trailer board to hang from those hinges for use on busy roads, and hide a trailer socket behind that bottom panel.
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Ha ha - well I decided to go back to red flashers - legal or not. The old amber ones were on the bootlid and since I swapped the bootlids over the back end looks so much neater.
Thanks for the tip Cros, I ordered some LED panels from the place you mentioned, which I will place inside the existing lamp units.
Thanks for the tip Cros, I ordered some LED panels from the place you mentioned, which I will place inside the existing lamp units.
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Re: Custom LED indicators
Is this of any help?
"I run uk bulb holders but red lenses, for the indicators I use a green bulb as through the red lens they shine orange"
"I run uk bulb holders but red lenses, for the indicators I use a green bulb as through the red lens they shine orange"
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You can get a serious green LED bulb in 15 size from chandlers- navigation lights use them and the have to be visible for a mile or something similar.
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Every time I see chandlers mentioned I think of this
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https://www.lightec-autostyle.co.uk/amb ... ay15d-1157
Those are seriously powerful LED bulbs, tho it may be too much as there's no heatsinking in that small a package. It does however seem to be a UK firm so you'd have comeback if they don't do what they say on the tin?
Cree do some of the best and brightest LED's in the world. I've made up various little lighting projects with them over the years, including a projector retrofit. As a DIY alternative I'd find an amber LED on a star, stick it on a heatsink and power it with a Buckpuck. They aren't cheap but are very well designed and don't mind dirty voltages.
Those are seriously powerful LED bulbs, tho it may be too much as there's no heatsinking in that small a package. It does however seem to be a UK firm so you'd have comeback if they don't do what they say on the tin?
Cree do some of the best and brightest LED's in the world. I've made up various little lighting projects with them over the years, including a projector retrofit. As a DIY alternative I'd find an amber LED on a star, stick it on a heatsink and power it with a Buckpuck. They aren't cheap but are very well designed and don't mind dirty voltages.
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I've found a green bulb, very bright but not sure how good it would be behind red lens in bright sunshine. A lot depends on how much room you've got, most are double pole too which is probably an arse.
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Re: Custom LED indicators
Thanks everyone - I am going with red for now
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