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Old 09-30-2007, 06:17 PM
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COUPE Sequential LED Tail Lights

You people asked for it, so now here it is. I have made a set of these sequential lights for the coupe for a member on here who graciously donated his tail lights to the process.
Here is the link to the original sedan lights: Sedan Sequential Lights

So to make the lights work in the coupe, I had to change the control board to be able to have less sequences, but accommodate more total LED's. On to the pictures and videos!

New LED board without the LED's installed


Finished light without lens


Both Lights glued and sealed


Video without the lens on


Video in the dark


Video with lens installed


These LED boards use 37 high power LED's for each light as opposed to 27 for the sedan. The coupe lights have less current running through them though. The light output should be at least equal to stock, but I have no coupe to compare it to

If there is enough interest, I will consider making these for others as well. Let the questions and comments begin!
 
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Old 09-30-2007, 06:23 PM
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sweet, finally done. you did a great job. but it's not quite how I imagined it.

Kind of thought it would retain the circular feel like the inner brake light and proceed from the center to out in sequential circles?
 
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Old 09-30-2007, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by IvoryGT
sweet, finally done. you did a great job. but it's not quite how I imagined it.

Kind of thought it would retain the circular feel like the inner brake light and proceed from the center to out in sequential circles?
It does go in sequential circles (rings), but I can't space them too closely. I needed room for the PCB traces and making circles out of square LED's can be tricky . The outer three rings are formed in circles, when I made the board I made sure the angles were centered around the middle LED and spaced correctly. Sorry it wasn't what you were envisioning
 
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Very very sick...
 
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Old 09-30-2007, 07:17 PM
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REALLi nice..make these for my coupe!!! NOW....
 
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i thought you woul dhave done what ivory said, but nonetheless, cool mod
 
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Good job, they came out very nice.
 
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Different, but pretty cool. Nice work. Some interesting reflections from an angle with the cover on.

What did you for the edge where the tails had to be cut apart? Looks like they already had a vinyl overlay?
 
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looks sick...how much are you charging...lol
 
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Maybe if it was 4 rings instead of 5 rings then it would be a little more like circles.
 
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Originally Posted by IvoryGT
Maybe if it was 4 rings instead of 5 rings then it would be a little more like circles.
Only way I could see it like that is with a different style of LED, rather than the circuit board setup.
 
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Originally Posted by helldorado
Only way I could see it like that is with a different style of LED, rather than the circuit board setup.
Agreed. I don't have the patience right now to freewire lots of LED's by hand
 
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Old 09-30-2007, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by helldorado
Different, but pretty cool. Nice work. Some interesting reflections from an angle with the cover on.

What did you for the edge where the tails had to be cut apart? Looks like they already had a vinyl overlay?
They did indeed have overlays already.
 
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SEEEEDDAAANNNNNNN!!!! lol
 
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