accent03

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If anyone has the patience or time to watch that, i highly recommend it. this dude is f*cking crafty. Not only does he take objects i would never even think of, but hes using parts such as 270 ohm resistors and High Intensity LED's which can be supplied at my electronics class because we have them laying around. I'm gonna give this one a shot. I will not be disassembling the actual headlight housing, but will most likely run these to the fogs and then on to a toggle. if you do the math it comes out to about 261 ohms, which supports the fact that the 270 ohm resistor will work off the 12v necessary.


this is not going to be expensive and that's why I'm doing it.
I'll let you guys all know if it fails miserably.
i see nothing that can go wrong here.

omeletduefromage

yea i tried that about a year ago. i still have the rings but its a pain in the ass to do. if your off with your cuts a little bit in the back of it when its lit up, it looks like crap. they sell pre bent tubes on ebay for dirt cheap. i feel that, that would look better since it would be more round

accent03

the ones im making look really good actually.

omeletduefromage

yea like when i heated them up, they rounded out really well. but when i was dremeling the slits in the back one of them was off by the slightest bit of an angle and it looked off. you either have to make the slits perfect or not do them at all.

DTN

don't heat them in the oven. Use a heat gun. Mine is digital and can be set to temperature. I set it to 500 whenever I was making them.

You can do much better with a full ring. at the end just heat it up more and do a 90 degree turn on the plastic, then cut off the extra, you will end up with a 1/4" gap for the LEDs to fit into.


Instead of using a dremmel and screwing things up by making the notches too deep, use a piece of wire which you heat up on an open flame. This will prevent cutting too deep. If you cut too deep, then the next notch in line won't get the light it needs, and one side of the ring will be much dimmer then the other.

You can get the same results with "Crystal Clear Cement". just cement the LED in place and be done.

It looks to me like the guy just read about it once and found the first way he could to do it and then videoed it. I'd say you could do much better.

I'm not impressed.


Here's the link to the ones I used to sell.
http://www.rdtiburon.com/index.php?showtop...t=0&start=0
Here's a picture of the kit

DTN

wrong link http://www.rdtiburon.com/index.php?showtop...t=0&start=0

accent03

you still selling those dude?

Whiplash

I got the ones from flyride. They looked good.

DTN

No. I'm not still selling them. It was more work then I was willing to do. I finished up, sent out 10 sets, paid for my work and a bit extra, and I was done.

omeletduefromage

what were you using for the tubes?