D_Venable Posted September 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 you sir have an email Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 (edited) OK, I stayed about 2 hours after work, and got some work done on the one tail (now 99% done, gotta finish sealing it up) Put a little glass on the largest openings (it's messy, I know, but you won't see it), and painted the main housing black http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5820.jpg Painted the spacers black http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5821.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5822.jpg Tinted the outer lens with RC car window tint http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5823.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5824.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5825.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5826.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5827.jpg :party0049: Edited September 10, 2008 by D_Venable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoolinturbo Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 HOLY CRAP THAT LOOKS LIKE SEX!!!!!!!!! so envious =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetspd150 Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Your idea is great! I'm an old DeVry guy and we use to make circuit boards as you mention for school projects. Buying copper boards and acid solution and etching templates to build our own circuit boards. I agree it is time consuming for the average Joe. But it is simple to do. But here is a thought for you, patent your idea! Then send your schematics to a circuit board company that uses a program called AutoCad to layout your templates on the copper boards with precision using a wax film to resist the acid. There are a few companies that will do this with ease because they have the professional automation equipment to mass produce this type of item. If I get some time I will try to find one for you to consider. Or do a search for circuit board manufacturers. From this point you set a price and sit back and relax and split the profits with the manufacture when the kits are mass produced. You would be doing us and yourself a favor. My two cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Looks great Derek.. Now you'll get the PM's asking to make them for others like I do with the flush mount HID projector headlights I made. I just sigh, and explain that it'd cost $1300-1500 to be worth it. LOL I'm curious to see what you plan to do with what I sent you last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrophage Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Making the circuit boards isn't really hard, it's just time consuming. The only tricky part is with the transfer film, since I only have 8.5x11 sheets, I have to split the image for each board into 2, and try to line them up with each other (not too bad). But using the iron on the transfer film poses the "challenge", as with a slightly overlapping piece, you get a small ridge, and you can't apply all the pressure to every spot around it, leaving some gaps when you pull the film up. But you can fill in those gaps with a Sharpie, it's ink will also resist the ferric Chloride, but make sure it's 100% dry before you throw into the ferric chloride. if you'd be willing to do that on your own, I'd be more than happy to share the board layouts (jpegs, or the illustrator files, the latter being more detailed, and will print better) and more detailed images/instructions on the component layout. I still have the 3 main boards to make for the other side/tail, and I'm contemplating adding 2 more lines/boards per tail light to have lights filling in the area better. so I still have a lot of work left to do on mine before I can even consider making any for others, which in all honesty, I don't want to do. Derek All you have to do is contact a board company in fact all you have to do is upload the file, they will quote the file then offer a group purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyWadd Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 super lookin . i wonder if you could get a clear outer lense so the led'd would not be blocked by that replactor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 I'm curious to see what you plan to do with what I sent you last week. Nothing set in stone, but I have some ideas :gobot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiplee Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Looks great. Do those LEDs come in different sizes? It looks like you'd save a little time using about 1/2in leds and the rows would populate the space better for my eye. I love the way you did it but with a bigger LED the back up light might not have to be two rows, and it might look a touch cleaner. Let me know when you change your mind about producing them too, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 The company I bought the LEDs from SuperBrightLEDs.com, doesn't offer the 10mm LEDs, and what they do offer that's bigger (only marginally) gets much brighter, in limited colors, and more expensive. The 5mm ones are cheap (for their brightness), and more than bright enough... All of the pics I've taken with them lit up, are taken while they're powered up by a 9V battery, or 2 lantern batteries (wired in series for 12 volt) and they aren't as bright as they will be, close, but there's a noticeable difference. I probably would have been fine with just the one line of the white LEDs, but I'd rather be safe than sorry, I want to be able to light things up with them at night :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 if i recall that company has a few super brights that you cant look directly into or you will go blind. I seem to remember buying some super brights from AllElectronics as well. I think they were $1 a piece for reds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreitz3 Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 I can't wait to see these on the car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laodicea Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Ok so i want some too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 ok, a tiny bit more done to the one tail tonight. I got the hole where the wires go through the back sealed up now. I started off by opening the hole in the back of the housing larger http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5832.jpg Then cut a piece of plastic to cover the new larger hole, to bolt to the back. Also picked up some split wire loom, and some rubber grommets. http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5831.jpg The boards all together OUT of the housing :ylsuper: http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5830.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5834.jpg Some silicone sealant/glue applied to seal it up http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5835.jpg Bolted on http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5836.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5837.jpg Now this side is done, time start on the other side. Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 are you worried about moisture getting through the grommet? I figured with all the sealant maybe you should got to an electrical supply store or lowes and get a chord-grip. they have panel mount ones that are NPT with a gasket and a spanner nut you put on the inside. I dont think your connector will pass through is the only bad thing. Looking Good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 No, not worried about the moisture, if any does get in, I have the boards coated with clear lacquer to act as a conformal coating. BUT, the split wire loom BARELY fits through the grommet, and the loom is also wrapped in electrical tape, which makes it fit even tighter in the grommet. The grommet also fits TIGHT in the piece of plastic, it took a good amount of effort to get it in the hole, and the plastic is thick enough that it seals tight against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 he made them his self. early on(page 1 maybe) he mentions buying copper clad board, printing with a laser printer on transfer film and etching the boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convette Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Great work man, if you ever want to sell a set I'll DEF buy them. Good to see someone working for the cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 While out helping boostandmuscle strip a parts car down, he let me grab a few parts myself, some of which included the tail lights, I just wanted the Starion lenses. The one housing with the good lens is trash (passenger side) and the other side (driver's side) has a ok housing, but the lens is busted. BUT I like the Starion lens http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5841.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5842.jpg Anyone want to trade a Driver's side Starion lens for both Conquest lenses (one is cleared of the black lines and tinted, the other is still untouched, but I'd clear it of the lines and tint it as well if you'd trade. Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Made some more progress today. Stayed after work and finished "hacking" the driver's side housing out. tried to take better pics of this one than I did of the finished side, to give a better visual understanding of what had to go. http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5844.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5845.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5846.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5847.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Got the new back plate cut to shape http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5848.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5849.jpg http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5851.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Transfer film is printed and ready to be ironed onto the copper clad board http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5852.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D_Venable Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 (edited) OK, got them transferred over to the copper clad board one down, you can see the "joint" where I have to use 2 pieces to make the entire image http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5853.jpg 2 down, and touched up http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5854.jpg to touch up where the image doesn't completely transfer, you can use a sharpie, it will resist the ferric chloride (etching solution) http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5855.jpg all 3 and the reverse light boards down and touched up, ready to be cut out http://www.26liter.us/gallery/albums/userpics/10030/DSCF5856.jpg Edited September 26, 2008 by D_Venable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boostandmuscle Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 damn you been busy man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convette Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Thats awsome work man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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