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Ricing it up one LED at a time...

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Ricing it up one LED at a time...

Postby Graham » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:56 pm

I've wanted to do this for a while but never got around to it, but finally one day I was bored at work so I ordered some LEDs to play around with. Specifically they're flat, probably a bit easier to work with than standard LEDs.

I bought 10 of these LEDs

I've only done the four main aircon ducts at this stage just to test it out, I did it today so I'll see how it goes driving at night and making sure they arent too distracting, I plan on doing the other two aircon ducts on the dash and the speakers, POSSIBLY the tweeters, I don't think tweeters will work that well though, but we'll see.

anyway here's a pic for you all, more pics can be found on my progress page..


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Postby Blakey » Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:11 pm

wow they are expensive $3 a led you can buy thoes LED's and Hundreds of SMD resistors for that price. well maybe not the LED's they would cost like 0.25c each.
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Postby Graham » Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:23 pm

Indeed you could, but this is more convenient :)
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Postby lancervr » Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:35 pm

very creative mate..... looks sick.....
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Postby Blakey » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:32 pm

but anyway looks good. still belive you need darker pillars. look outta place with you blue roof and dark dash and seats
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Postby tadz0rz » Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:42 pm

Duuuddeee! Thats sick!! Ive thought about doing this for a while but could never pick the LED's to do it!

Excellent work mate!!
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Postby Dire » Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:47 pm

:o awesome.

Nar pillars are fine, change them and you have to change the sun visors etcetc. Though the sun visors suck with the warnings on them.

Just one Q for anyone.... Do you find the dash always goes back together as good as it was or do you get some uneven spaces?


And graham its an overseas company right? How much was postage? :twisted:
Immediate edit: It says $4.20 at the top of the website :lol:

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Postby Graham » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:18 am

Postage is just $4.20 for USA it might be more to aus but i cant remember I'd need to check the invoice :P

Thanks guys, Yeah I've thought about doing the A pillars black paint or even wrapped in carbon fibre but I kind of don't want to paint them, I've wrapped one in black suede but it was a fail so I took it out.

I may need to paint it one day I think..
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Postby bd-850 » Mon Apr 19, 2010 9:32 am

i see you like Blue :P

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Postby Blakey » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:40 am

Graham wrote:Postage is just $4.20 for USA it might be more to aus but i cant remember I'd need to check the invoice :P

Thanks guys, Yeah I've thought about doing the A pillars black paint or even wrapped in carbon fibre but I kind of don't want to paint them, I've wrapped one in black suede but it was a fail so I took it out.

I may need to paint it one day I think..


if you go to rexspeed they sell CF A pillars
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Postby Graham » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:46 pm

Love blue :D

Hmm I can't really afford to buy new ones :(
One day when I get bored and run out of ideas I'll probably paint them lol
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Postby milobob » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:54 pm

OOoo.. how are they at night? I'd imagine the blue to be quite bright?

Reason I say this is that I find the blue backlighting of the Camrys/Aurions and Hyundais to be irritating.. maybe its just me :S
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Postby Graham » Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:59 pm

they aren't very bright it's good, I've aimed the LED's to point the opposite way for that main reason and it worked pretty well :)

I'll need to get peoples opinions on it at night one day haha
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Postby Graham » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:37 pm

Did the two front speakers & two tweeters (left door on Friday and right door just then :P)

Will take pics tonight if I remember and post them up..

The top 2 vents aren't going to be possible to do though :(
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Postby spunkybob » Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:56 pm

nice 1..

my pioneer is blue back light and I found it bright at night... then I realized you can turn down the screen and its all good now.

Blue is very harsh, orange/red is less distracting... but blue looks best.
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