View Poll Results: Which Do You Prefer?
3 Row
45
60.81%
4 Row
29
39.19%
Voters: 74. You may not vote on this poll
Which LED Tail Design Do You Like Better?
Unless my eyes are playing tricks on me..... I count 3 rows in your tails......
you gotta consider 4 or 5 of those are people who own 3 row sets, so they're going to be biased. it would have to be a landslide for me to do the 3 row for a couple reasons:
1. its been done (by almost everybody who has led tails)
2. i like the 4 row better
3. the 4 row design more accurately presents the image i would like my company to have
there is a possibility of me offering both designs, but it costs a lot of money for each one. i have more than a couple thousand dollars into this and have made all of 3.5 sets.
i plan on doing the reverse, but i will not be doing the turns. i prototyped a set when i started and there just isn't a good way to mass produce something that is good looking, safe, and fairly simple to install. i kind of polled the members when i began and most didn't feel the turns/reverse were necessary anyway.
1. its been done (by almost everybody who has led tails)
2. i like the 4 row better
3. the 4 row design more accurately presents the image i would like my company to have
there is a possibility of me offering both designs, but it costs a lot of money for each one. i have more than a couple thousand dollars into this and have made all of 3.5 sets.
i plan on doing the reverse, but i will not be doing the turns. i prototyped a set when i started and there just isn't a good way to mass produce something that is good looking, safe, and fairly simple to install. i kind of polled the members when i began and most didn't feel the turns/reverse were necessary anyway.
1. So what if it's been done. Being different isn't better, as I'm sure you understand. 3-row is tried and true, and more aesthetically pleasing as stated, IMHO of course. Sometimes it's better to replicate, rather than innovate, from a business decision point of view.
2. I respect that. But think of what the "people" want.... The 3-row is currently winning your poll.
3. I can respect that too. Although I don't understand how, that's a good enough reason for me.
Then the poll is kind of a moot point, as you were hoping the 4-row would win by a landslide in agreement with your tastes.If I was you, I'd offer one design (the 3-row obviously) and skip the reverse lights. Reverse is used <1% of the time. Easier to produce and cheaper for the consumer=more sales. That's my .02
Whatever you decide, I congratulate you for your fine efforts/accomplishments.
Hmmmmm.... biased you say? If I had to buy new LED tailights tomorrow, I'd still buy 3-row. If you offered me free 4 row LED's in exchange for my 3-row, I'd say no and keep my 3-row. 3-row FTW!!
1. So what if it's been done. Being different isn't better, as I'm sure you understand. 3-row is tried and true, and more aesthetically pleasing as stated, IMHO of course. Sometimes it's better to replicate, rather than innovate, from a business decision point of view.
2. I respect that. But think of what the "people" want.... The 3-row is currently winning your poll.
3. I can respect that too. Although I don't understand how, that's a good enough reason for me. Then the poll is kind of a moot point, as you were hoping the 4-row would win by a landslide in agreement with your tastes.
If I was you, I'd offer one design (the 3-row obviously) and skip the reverse lights. Reverse is used <1% of the time. Easier to produce and cheaper for the consumer=more sales. That's my .02
Whatever you decide, I congratulate you for your fine efforts/accomplishments.
1. So what if it's been done. Being different isn't better, as I'm sure you understand. 3-row is tried and true, and more aesthetically pleasing as stated, IMHO of course. Sometimes it's better to replicate, rather than innovate, from a business decision point of view.
2. I respect that. But think of what the "people" want.... The 3-row is currently winning your poll.
3. I can respect that too. Although I don't understand how, that's a good enough reason for me.
Then the poll is kind of a moot point, as you were hoping the 4-row would win by a landslide in agreement with your tastes.If I was you, I'd offer one design (the 3-row obviously) and skip the reverse lights. Reverse is used <1% of the time. Easier to produce and cheaper for the consumer=more sales. That's my .02
Whatever you decide, I congratulate you for your fine efforts/accomplishments.
1) the reason it matters if it has been done is because when it was available how many people actually bought them? i feel the 3 row design caters more to the sporty/performance crowd. i think these people are more likely to spend their hard earned money on a hp upgrade than a lighting upgrade. i feel the 4 row design is geared more toward a show look (more likely to pay for a lighting upgrade).
2) i never expected the 4 row to win in the poll. people have been drooling over the 3 row for so long, and the few cars that do have them are excellent examples of maximas vs. my 1 taillight on a bench. the poll is there to count, not compare. if i can get x number of people to say they prefer the 4 row off 1 pic, i'm pretty sure i could get a following once there were some nice installed examples and some time passed.
3) being that this is my first product my ideals are strong in this one. if i could choose my business' fate i would prefer to stick to high end and hard to find mods that fall into a certain niche. i'm pretty sure that i'll end up giving in at some point, but its too early right now.
its probable that if these don't flop i'll eventually offer both designs. its probably not the best plan business wise to offer my design first but its what i'm going to do because its what i believe in.
if i had a set of 95-96 tails I would make a set. Just don't feel like buying the tails ha. If someone wanted to donate some extra tails to me I would work on it and give them back. With a small fee of course ha.
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in regard to the brightness issue due to the distance between the board and the lensses, you should work out some brackets or spacers that would make the one that is further back in the housing closer to the lens.
i think that 2 designs would be nice since the opinions are pretty even right now.
good luck on the auctions!
i think that 2 designs would be nice since the opinions are pretty even right now.
good luck on the auctions!
the numbers are each taillight board. the signal is pulled though a harness attached to the oem bulb socket.
the reason most people have 3 wires is because they use drop resistors for dimming. i use a pwm, which pulses the leds at a very fast rate making them appear dimmer. this design only requires 1 signal wire and a short grounding wire.
the reason most people have 3 wires is because they use drop resistors for dimming. i use a pwm, which pulses the leds at a very fast rate making them appear dimmer. this design only requires 1 signal wire and a short grounding wire.
That is all
the numbers are each taillight board. the signal is pulled though a harness attached to the oem bulb socket.
the reason most people have 3 wires is because they use drop resistors for dimming. i use a pwm, which pulses the leds at a very fast rate making them appear dimmer. this design only requires 1 signal wire and a short grounding wire.
the reason most people have 3 wires is because they use drop resistors for dimming. i use a pwm, which pulses the leds at a very fast rate making them appear dimmer. this design only requires 1 signal wire and a short grounding wire.
the problem is with the spacing causing varying brightness between the inners and the outers. the pwm is adjustable, but i need 1 potentiometer for the inners and 1 for the outers to allow brightness matching.
just use 2 pwms... on for the inner and one for the outer
i wonder why i don't have the same issues you have. Mine are all the same brightness in person.
