@popeye

[mousey]

Hey,

Did you get my pm by any chance???

Regards
James

P.S. For you nosey buggers who are also reading this , whats happened to the forum latle, been a bit dead don't ya think?

[darkdezigns]

yup,and ps,tested amp today,it no worky lights up etc but no output

[POPEYE]

Hi James, yes but was in a rush this morn, and just got in now, grubby and ready for a bath. will get back to ya soon as maye, sorry, i'll reply on here as i dont think you can post pics on PM's, really knackered

[mousey]

yup,and ps,tested amp today,it no worky lights up etc but no output

awww bummer, well i'll have to get a new one then, bit expennsive but i need one.

Hi James, yes but was in a rush this morn, and just got in now, grubby and ready for a bath. will get back to ya soon as maye, sorry, i'll reply on here as i dont think you can post pics on PM's, really knackered

Nay bother me'ol muckker, just thought you never got it. Look forward to your response, sorry for being a pain

Regards
James

[POPEYE]

Hi mate, sorry for the delay, totaly buggered yesterday, right, first i get my led's from goodwills, fair price and they come with resistors, take it you know how to wire leds? so wont go into that too much, i aint an expert so i used a resistor on each led (pos/long) tail, i know you can use either tail but it'll only work with the feed on one way, i usee some old coach foot well/steps light enclosures as i had em and they are pretty sturdy, made to withstand peoples feet (may still have some, dunno, let me know if you want some and i'll have a look) just made a plastic/styreen sheet to hold the leds, poke em through holes i made in the sheet and solder all the neg tails together with some stripped tinned copper wire to help join em, resistor on each pos and join them like the negs, mine was a bit fiddley as i wanted different colours, (the led panel in the pic was for the roof interior light, all of them are wired together via the door switches and come on when the door is opened, also can be switched either off altogether or on with the doors shut, run em through a low rate fuse (3amp i think) the fronts are just screwed to the quater trim and the rears drilled and screwed to the metal (throught the carpet) below the rear seats, some rubber insulation fitted to the back to protect the solder work, about it mate, bey these light holders originly come with a a single bulb holder and the rear bit is quite deep so i did'nt use them, instead i cut come squares of hard wood and cut the centers out (sort of spacers) and fitter the glass and metal fronts through these, bit of satin black and thats it
http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Goodwi...subZ0QQ_sasiZ1

[mousey]

Hey,

Thanks for taking time out to write that response.

Couple more questions, firstly it's been a long time since i wired up this amount of L.E.D's, so a little dummy tutorial might be the way forward?

Also As im only going to be making them about 1.5/2ft long and only about 3 or 4 rows in each, what would be the best way of fixing them, in your opinion. I.e piece of clear perspex, or a wood of some sort with the holes drilled in. And how would you keep them inplace once you've popped them throught the locating holes...

All sounds a bit dumb, but i want to try and get it right and looking neat....

Regards
James

EDIT: I'll try and post a diagram of what im trying to achieve

[POPEYE]

Not dumb at all mate, i was totaly clueless when i started (and not that long ago) when i did em i used some styreen sheet plastic, you can get it in verious thicknesses from any model shop and it's fairly cheap, but you can use anything really as long as it does not conduct electricity or it'll short out the leds, once i'd cut the plastic card to size i drew lines on it where the leds were to be fixed, then drilled (with a minicraft modeling drill, or ya can use a hand pin-vise) holes about 1mm drill either side of the lines so the tails of the leds fit through without bending em, once through you just bend the tails over and they hold themselves in, alternativly a spot of cyno glue will do it, then just bend the negitive tails (shorter of the two) to join each other and solder or join em with a bit of wire bared and tinned, i know there are several ways to wire leds such as "in series" or "paralell" but i useually just solder a resistor to each led, just find it easier for me, also if you were to wire several via one resistor and they are different colours you find one colour will not light, forget which ones, i might have some links to led wireing but anyway goodwill saled always send a product booklet with your pruchace and it does cover some wireing at the back,
cheers ian
might be some help?
http://www.hiluxsurf.co.uk/forums/sh...ight=dash+leds
http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz
the pic (hopefully) is some lights i made for me model car cabinet, one for each shelf, i stuck the leds into some cut lenghts of that plastic cable conduit stuff from b&q's, just a thought!!

[mousey]

Hey

Thanks for replying,

That little light bar is roughly the kinda thing i want.

Below you will see a diagram of what i want (oh here we go)



Sorry for really bad drawing......

Is this going to be possible to make?

Also, how long would it take

and for reference, all the l.e.ds are one colour - blue

Thanks for the info given in the last post aswell, this is helping me sooo much
so i thankyou

Regards
James

[POPEYE]

That looks ok mate! dont see any probs makeing those, first thing i guess is to sort out or make the encloseures, if you have summat in mind for this like perspex or whatever, if there going to be knocked by peoples feet (if you have kids) they'll need to be a bit strong, if there up out of the way not so much of a problem, once these are made you can find some plastic card or summat to take the leds, what i'd do is fit top and second rows of leds with either the pos or neg tails faceing each other, you can then cut/trim and bend the tails and solder em together, bend each tail the same direction so it touches the next leds tail and so on, as their all one colour i'd just fit one resistor at the end of each row, same thing for the third and forth rows and solder wire links to join up the rows, it's hard to explain and i cant do the drawing on the pc (like yours) but if you like i'll draw em on paper and if you pm me your postal address i'll send em.

[mousey]

That looks ok mate! dont see any probs makeing those, first thing i guess is to sort out or make the encloseures, if you have summat in mind for this like perspex or whatever, if there going to be knocked by peoples feet (if you have kids)

Haha, i ###### hope not, 19? kids? not my kinda thing mate LOL

Anyways, all sounds good what you have written, i night cover them with a peice of perspex or something simular, but it isnt really nessacary.

I might take you up on your offer though, i could do with a drawing, to give me a better understanding. Obviously all postage and materails will be accounted for, also a bit extra for yourself, for taking time out to do it, thats if its still ok?

Let me know either way, cheers for all this, its been a big help

Regards
James

[POPEYE]

Dont want any money James, just pm your postal address and i'll send a rough drawing of how i connected up my leds, it'll just be a simple drawing mate, nowt too involved, i take it you will be running the main feed via a switch and fuse? so you can turn em off when you want?

[mousey]

Dont want any money James, just pm your postal address and i'll send a rough drawing of how i connected up my leds, it'll just be a simple drawing mate, nowt too involved, i take it you will be running the main feed via a switch and fuse? so you can turn em off when you want?

Your a gentleman and a scholar kind sir.

Doesn't matter if the drawings arent very good, as long as i get the jist i'll be ok.

And yes, that is the plan. wire it up to a switch and a fuse.

Also, which l.e.d.s would your recommend using, obviously they are going to be blue in colour, what what type or power ect...

Again thanks a bunch, and i'll send you a pm after this

Regards
James

[GRASSMAN]

Hi James,

If you want under sill LED lighting, I have some
here in the garage, if you want it,

Gman.

See Ya soon.

[POPEYE]

Either 3 or 5mm water clear ultra brights leds will do ya, good light from these, if your buying from goodwill's they'll come with resistors for 12volt use unless you state you want other values, just run your supply through a fuse say 3-5amp, and on the the resistor and from that to the pos tail on the led (the longer of the two, connect the other tail to the neg or door switch neg and thats it

Gman! are they neons or leds?

[GRASSMAN]

Either 3 or 5mm water clear ultra brights leds will do ya, good light from these, if your buying from goodwill's they'll come with resistors for 12volt use unless you state you want other values, just run your supply through a fuse say 3-5amp, and on the the resistor and from that to the pos tail on the led (the longer of the two, connect the other tail to the neg or door switch neg and thats it

Gman! are they neons or leds?

Hi Popeye,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
They are blue LEDs
2@ 40" 48 LED 1@ 29" 36 LED all LEDs worked
ok untill I bent some pins in the DIN connectors
today trying to get them to flash in a sequence,
(I'm a clumsey pillock.)


Gman.