Led Lights For Any Socket

[CEF11E]

Whassup dudes

I made some of these so I had real white light not piss yellow lighting for my car. So I decided to make a quick guide for all the peoples that want white light for their cars!

What ever lights you want to replace you will need bulbs that fit that type of socket. This will work for all low voltage applications that are 12V in cars. Interior lights, numberplate lights, parkers, festoons ect

. You will need:

your old globes you want to replace

LEDs: CAT. NO. ZD0194 they are like $2 each.

Resistors part number: RR0559 they are about $2 for eight.

Solder

Soldering iron

Pliers

Wire cutters

1. Cut the positive side of the LED 5mm from the base. Cut a resistor 5mm from the resistor base.

2. Solder the 2 together with the short sides overlapping

3. Test the LED with a 12V DC power supply to make sure it works

4. Take your old light globe and carefully break the glass by squeezing it with the pliers, remove all the shards of glass and remove the filament between the 2 wires in the globe

5. You need to solder the LED/RESISTOR assembly to the inside wires of the light globe. This is a fiddly job and you will need to tin the joints to make it easier.

6. The LED/RESISTOR needs have the correct polarity to work. But every globe is different so if you solder it one way and it doesn’t work then you have got it backwards!

Once you have made one put it in the socket and see how it goes!

Follow the step by step photos if you get stuck. The results are awsome!

[d00dz]

Nice!

Where did you get the LEDs?

[CEF11E]

I got the LEDs and resistors from jaycar electronics.

[West]

Excellent CEF11E !!!!!!!!! Is that for interior lights, map lights and anything else that 12V ?

My 32Gtr lights are so pissweak shit, my mate 34 Gt-t was like WOW Factor, definately gonna try this.

[satanic]

Can you take a photo of this DIY actually in use... sounds like a very good idea

[someonestolecc]

Nice one Nic.

Yeah show us some pics of it working ... I'm still impressed with the white light inside my car and my reverse lights but yeah this is a good idea

Is there as much ambient light spread as the normal globe?

[AMS]

Really good idea...Same as everone else really : show us some pics of it working

[CEF11E]

there is a picture of the light working next to the original globe ^^^ up there

I will take a couple of pictures when i get back to sydney. I am in the land of fireworks and porn at the moment

cheers dudes

[West]

there is a picture of the light working next to the original globe ^^^ up there

I will take a couple of pictures when i get back to sydney. I am in the land of fireworks and porn at the moment

cheers dudes

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Might as well post some porn pics up as well while you're at it lol.

[GTaaargh]

A quick note from the land of fireworks, porn (and pathetic pollies) -

You can now buy 'wide angle' LEDs. The light isn't as directional as normal LEDs. Not sure if Jaycar have them, but LEDSales do.

Try http://www.ledsales.com.au/cart.php?target...y&category_id=2

You can also buy bulbs already set up with the LEDs set in the correct plug. Not sure where from, but I've seen them on eBay.

[someonestolecc]

Hey Nic can you convert the rear of my ceffy to look like the current model statemen rear?

Cool.. beers on me give me a ring

[PHATR32]

you can also get the 3watt leds, which are obviously better than the 1 watt one pictured. but they arnt cheap.

[CEF11E]

Hey Nic can you convert the rear of my ceffy to look like the current model statemen rear?

Cool.. beers on me give me a ring

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Done and Done!!

I have some High quality cardboard and some slightly used gaffa tepe and a photo of a statesman rear.

I know where your car is parked. I will do it when you are not there and call it my cristmas present to you.

[NewKleer]

note for longevity of LED's might be helped with a bit higher resistor value. i think most are specified for about 20ma, but at 12V with the 300ohm the led is getting 30ma (and upwards when can running).

470ohm resistor might be a bit better

[Buttoned_Down_Psycho]

12V with a 300Ohm resistor is closer to 40mA. Jaycar sell the Bulb fittings seperately so you can add the LED's of your choosing but they are pretty expensive. RS components sell Complete LED lighting replacements for incandecsant lighting in cars (except of course your mainbeams)

Example. As far as the LED's focused light, I've seen a couple of tricks used by people to disperse the light more evenly, lightly sanding the exterior of the led with some garnet paper seems to work alright and also filing the top of the dome of the LED package so that it is flat or concave will work fairly well too. Also if buying White or blue LED's from jaycar especially, get them all at one time and test them at the store if possible (most Jaycar stores Ive been to have a small LED tester) because different batches from different manufacturers can be a quite noticably different color.

[bloodsword27]

"LEDs: CAT. NO. ZD0194 they are like $2 each."

"I got the LEDs and resistors from jaycar electronics."

...just called up Jaycar.....they're more like $3.95 each now:(...still wanna try it out..haha

[NewKleer]

last time i was at jaycar i saw these:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=ZD0480

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=ZD0482

im pretty sure they had replacement globes for other things (like the ones ur trying to make in this thread) so might be worth to check out before trying the diy way

[Buttoned_Down_Psycho]

like these?

TYPE1

TYPE2

There are a few others there aswell that look much the same, if you browse using OTHER COMPONENTS --> LED-GLOBES

[NewKleer]

thats them, thanks!

jaycar categories are so rooted, hard to find anything

[someonestolecc]

pics!!!!