lol responded to one pm that is
i think im going to just tint my stock lights and call it a day.

 

You trying to do something like this? That was easy, all you need to do is bake open your inner tail lights, or use a hair dryer. Then once you have them open all you need to do is throw an LED strip in there, gonna need a 10inch or so strip, then just super glue or calk or hot glue the tail light back together. Then just run a long wire to your tail light, boom done.. Easy as pie. They will only work as blinkers and break lights OR running lights, not both. If you want them to act just like your normal tail lights you are gonna need to come up with a simple circuit to control it.

 

yea i want them to function as my ipcw ones do..
i think i may just nightshade my stock tails

 

I pm'ed a member on the site and he said...

Placing the diodes and resistor in the circuits is pretty simple. You should only need one resistor, you can use more, but one is enough, keeps the wiring to a minimum, and it's all I'm using. Take a wire and tap it into the brown parking light wire from the driver's side light. Run that wire up to the trunk. Place a resistor on this wire, then place a diode on it as well. Then run another piece of the same color wire from the diode to both of the inner lights. The parking light circuit is done here. Take another wire and tap it into the brake wire from the driver's side light, then do the same for the passenger side. Run both up into the trunk, and place a diode on the end of each wire. Then just connect the new brake wires to their respective inner lights and you'll be done.

They'll mimick the outer tails exactly.

 

GTR mod ftw! lol that looks sick

 

lol the guy in that post used 50,000 mcd LED's for his? I should do this with my 240,000 mcd LED's and see how ruthless they are. By the way, the IPCW inners can be shrunk to fit flush. I know this for sure after examining mine... I'll do it eventually, I just have to put my stockers back together so I can start on it.

 

It's gonna be a little harder then that, for one you need to figure out what kind of resistor you need and Diode for that matter. You could use PWM, which is kinda like an adjustable resistor. I'm actually working on making a set of full Skyline Tails, so both inner and outer tail lights are nice rings that are fully functional. I'm making a set of LED rings to go in each housing, which is why it's taking so long... that and I need to make a set of light defusers so they look like solid rings and less like LEDs.


The wiring diagram is gonna look something like this:

----------------------------------------------------(Stop / Turn +) --\
--- (TAIL+) --- (in) PWM (out) --- Diode (line on this side) ----- Light +
--- (TAIL- )--- (in) PWM (out) ---------------------------------------- Light -
----------------------------------------------------(Stop / Turn -) --/

 

yup, sounds like the resistor would be on the inner lights so they can act as running lights.

 

The hell you need adjustable resistors for? They don't need to be adjustable... just one for each side. You might need to adjust the resistor to find the resistance that dims your running lights to your liking, but still doesn't need to be adjustable. Unless of course you want to run some unnecessarily complex system for the inners and outers, in which case you might need 4 resistors, and not 2, still not adjustable tho.

I dunno about having the inners light up at all. I've tried or contemplated every possible taillight setup and my money's on stock tails lightly nightshaded as looking the best.

 

I figure it's easier that way, instead of soldering in a resistor finding out they are too bright or dim and taking them out again and redoing the whole process I could just solder in an adjustable one. Adjust that on the fly and hide the control under the floor with the spare tire. Oh, besides that PWM is designed specifically to dim LEDs so they won't cut the lifespan or anything. But to each his own I suppose.

 

Where can you get diodes and the PWM resistors?

 

I got the PWM from EcolightLED.com, as for Diodes, you can get them at Radioshack or Frys depending on where you live