Hey cobaltcoupecrazy do you think it'll be easy to do this? im gonna try it out if it works the cobalt will be like a skyline or corvette

 

i got alotasupply of 18g red/black zip

but where do you buy those LED's and how much for one?????

 

I want to make it so that both reds light up at the same time on each side so it'll be kind of like a Skyline.

 

Anyway you can make it not spotted like using a neon tube?

 

I just did the mod on mine. I have it hooked up as a parking light instead of brake lights I will put up pics when I get some taken.

I used 24 5mm LEDs rated at 50,000MCD per backup light

 

oh hell ya... im waiting for these pics then ill msg mkulry

 

great how to :

 

Here a pic I will try to get one at night and with the brakes on later.

 

Long time til the nightfall buddy. How much would a mod like this cost???

 

I got the LEDs off ebay for $16 and about 3 hours of work. It would probably not take as long to do it again.

 

origami78 - I like! It looks great, nice job! I love how you guys have taken the write-up and run with it, making your own variations and such and setting up some great looking led's in your reverese lights. This is what makes this site so awesome, everyone learns and works with each other to make things happen, rather than mocking and arguing with each other.

OK, sorry went off track there for a minute.

Again, great job to all those that have attempted the mod and have met great success.

 

Great write up. It definitely takes the guess work out of it.

I was wanting to connect mine to the Running lights, so that they can be on the whole time. I know the wiring is less convenient, but would look way cooler having 4 tailights on all the time.

DAMN sucka! I want that. Tell us how YOU did it. That's what I have been thinking about. maybe post a auction that has the same LEDs that you used.

 

These are about what I used. Same vender I hooked 4 LEDs in series and then each group of 4 LEDs I have in parallel. I then hooked the negative wire to ground and the positive side to the brown wire on the tail light.

http://cgi.ebay.com/50pc-5mm-Super-B...em250070725753

 

Thanks, I'll PM you with more questions when I get farther along.

 

so when you hook it up to that brown wire do the lights get brighter when you brake? how about the signals do they flash together?

 

the brown wire is parking lights only the black is ground and the third wire is the brake/turn signal wire. I only have them on when the parking lights are on. I am thinking of putting a resistor on it to dim them and put diodes on it to have it go to full brightness when hitting the brakes or signaling but I decided for now I would just use them as parking lights.

 

no the brown wire coming out of the brake lights is for the running lights. The Green wire is for those that want the inner tail to act as the brake/turn signal. I did mine today but forgot to put a resistor on the one set of leds and they blew out. So i'll be redoing those tomorrow.

 

I did not use any resistors I put 4 LEDs in series the negative from one to the positive of the next that means that if you have a 12V source they are getting 3V each and at 15V 3.75V each

 

Thats actually the two questions that I had:

1.) What Resistors do you have to put on the LED's for the tail-lights?

and

2.) How would you wire it up so that when you turned on your headlights the LEDs would glow dim and get brighter once you braked, just like your outer tail-lights?

 

ya thats what i was looking to do im just not familiar with leds yet so... would it work (bright for brake, dimmer for parking lights and flash with signal) if you were to splice the leds like a y and hook up one red to the brown with some resistor(s) and hook up the other red to the green with the diode?

 

Here you go night pictures

 

I'm pretty sure you would need a resistor and a diode off the brown wire and just a diode off the green wire. I am working on trying it out on mine with variable resistors so I can adjust the brightness. I will let you know what I find out.

 

ic ic. well i just used this website to tell me what resistors to use and how the LED's should structured. Also before i blew out my led's i had it hooked to the running lights no problem. Then i hooked it to brake/turn wire of the right taillight and hit the unlock button and it blew out my led's. Now i have them all correctly wired with the recommended resistors and they work perfect.

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz


for number 1, i used 10 LED's total. 2 sets of 5 LED's. Each set with a 56ohm resistor.

to answer number 2, the outer tail-lights use dual filament bulbs. The running lights run dimmer on one filament and the brake/turn are brighter on the second filament. but i would wait for origami to test out his to tell you how it goes.

 

maybe its just be but leds dont have filiments. its a light emitting diode

 

um, lol....i was talking about the stock bulb being dual filament not the LED