I finally finished putting 5mm blue 4000mcd LEDs in every possible location in my interior....I bought 50 of them on Ebay for $10 with resistors for 12v
Took me a while, but I figured out how to get everything done (tiny soldering of resistors and stuff is hard)
I took a million pics which are all on my homepage but here are links to them all anyway...

Oh, and they all work on the dimmer so I can turn them down or off if need be...

Cockpit
Window Switches
Security Lights
Courtesy Lights
Dome Light
Key Ring Light
Cruise Control Switch
Hazard Button
Defroster Button
Dimmer Switch
Climate Control
Upper Door Handle Accents
Lower Door Handle Accents
Full View of Driver's Door
Front Passenger's Door
Rear Passenger's Door
Rear Driver's Side Door
Odometer Light and Custom Turn Signal Indicators
Cupholder Accent Lights
Glove Box Light
Neons in Trunk
White LCD Clock

Am I sick, or what????


-Tony

 

Wow.....That looks amazing....Very Clean looking. Do you know of a link where I could find those LEDs or what phrase I should use on ebay to locate them?

Thanks.

JP

 

that **** looks hot!


time to browse ebay for those LEDs.


what'd you type in the search box to find those? LEDs?

 

5mm blue LED

 

umm someone went overboard? its just a tad too much IMO. but many places it looks good and you did a great job, there is just a ton of light.

 

The camera picks up more light than there really is. The light is well contained in whatever location it is, doesn't get thrown all over the car


-Tony

 

damn dude! I love your car. You would win lots of car shows...do you ever go to shows?

 

ahh well i love everything else on the car, i bet it looks awsome in person, but it seems like a lot

 

Hey Tony,

Write up please!

I love your Max

 

araffio:

Just a quick question, what is the difference between the 3-4 or 5mcd LEDS? Is it just color.

JP

 

yes...plz put up a write up......and sweet set-up on the LED's.....damn i'm jealous now........good job Tony.....


l8er

Torres

 

HOLY RICE!

btw how did u get 2 neon tubes in the trunk? where did u get the 12V connector or power into the neons?

 

I have a similar setup w/ blus Led's

 

Im assuming these dont light up the car as the factory white bulbs would? (ie. door lights, courtesy light)

 

Nice Job Tony.. Blue's my fav color too

 

I was told that 98 and 99 models needed a special type of a led, is this it?

 

they look nice...but I'm sure the camera doesn't do the lights justice.

 

very nice.....that must have taken some time!!!!!

 

Damn how did you get lights in the door handle accents. Woah that is crazy, I would love to do that.

 

 

brightness

 

it's like i am at a rave party.. naked girls everywhere, bright *** blue lights..

 

Correct, but I don't really care. I left regular hyperwhites in the map lights so they still light up the inside very well if I need them.


-Tony

 

Drilled 1/4" holes and used LED mounting clips...



-Tony

 

I mounted the tubes under the rear deck, just drilled and screwed into the metal....I got the power from the trunk light. It goes on when the trunk is opened so all I did was tap those wires. The neons go on whenever I open the trunk, simple as that


-Tony

 

The rear window switches were EXTREMELY tricky to get done since they have surface mount LEDs which are freakin tiny.
The front switches weren't bad and neither was everything else, just used regular 5mm LEDs...


-Tony

 

Sorry, no write up. Took me forever to get it done and it would take me even longer to do a write up. Plus, I don't remember exactly what to do for each piece so I'd be going on memory only. Just get in there and figure it out, it's not that hard.

Resistor goes on the positive lead of the LED which then goes to the positive contact on the car. Then the negative lead on the LED gets soldered to the negative/ground contact on the car, done!!


-Tony

 

Basically the brightness. The difference between 3k and 4k mcd is minimal, probably wouldn't notice the difference....but you need something that high in mcd rating to look bright blue.

I tried Radio Shack 300mcd blue and they were not bright at all, almost purple in color too.


-Tony

 

Oh my

Anyone who's freak about LEDs will love sites like http://www.theledlight.com

For those who love BLUE LEDs, thank Nichia (sp?), the Japanese company that developed it (and subsequently, White LEDs... which are Blue LEDs with a redshift coating, which causes some of the blue light to retransmit in the longer-wavelengths to fill out the "white" spectrum)
Efficient producers of light, although a tad expensive (relating light output to cost of production, compared to Incandescent bulbs), LEDs just rock. I think my Alpine headunit's display contains of all PCB-mounted tiny LEDs, as opposed to an LCD screen with a backlight... IMHO the Alpine's contrast is nice.

 

Also, the reason you need a resistor is because LEDs typically require around 2-3.6 volts to operate at their peak current, so 12V is too much... (thus you use resistors to introduce a voltage drop)

It might also be possible to solder 4-5 LEDs in series and not need a resistor (or if you do, it'll be a single small one)... never tried it though. http://www.allelectronics.com also has LEDs in bulk if you want to go nuts (they also have a LOT of other ****)

 

www.superbrightleds.com is a great site too. I got a bunch of things from them as well as ebay...


-Tony

 

me too. Beautiful setup man.

 

Lookin real good Tony. One question. Why the white clock and not blue?
Pure curiosity.
I did my clock blue to match all the other blue led's.

 

how did you do the climate control? I took mine apart on day and all the pieces just didn't want to go back into place.

 

Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, nice work. Your car has come such a long ways...it was pretty nice in the beginning, but now it's like a rolling diamond. Sheesh...

 

If your car was a girl...i'd declare war on those who wouldn't hit it.

 

****ing dope.

 

Thanks guys

I'll be changing the clock to blue shortly.

I just installed a couple 5.6" headrest TVs too

I'll post pics tomorrow


-Tony

 

Very interesting way of putting it. Thanks I guess!!


-Tony

 

looks hot, i love all the blue LED's in my car. and yes the rears where a paint in the a$$ to do.