2000dreambird

Hey all, I'm looking into having a place produce a set of LED honeycomb tail lights, complete with sequential flashing controller. problem is that they're not cheap to do as a 1 off unit... If i can get about 10 people interested in them i can get the cost down to about $900-$1000. I know that's still expensive, but they come with a lifetime warranty. If i had uber amounts of $$ to throw at it i would order 100 units and they would be closed to $4-500 each.

THOUGHTS...?????

Metallifan

I think you accidentally added a few 0's.

2000dreambird

Its because they have to do all the designing work, and cut the boards, line the LED's and program the box to control them... he was only shooting me a quote, he said to see how many i think i could really buy before giving me a actual price.. If you got someone that can do it cheaper i'm all ears.. its something i really want to do but with the prices he said i'm thinking it might be out of the ballpark... the problem is that no one makes any after market lights for this car.. and i dont want some Euro crap

That price was also including them providing the light housings

Metallifan

There are plenty of members on other car forums, possibly even this forum that have done their own custom LED taillights for around $50-$100. If you want, I can PM you a writeup on it.

WhiteBird00

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You can get a custom sequential signal kit from webelectricproducts.com for $90 and then install LED replacement bulbs and a couple of resistors to keep them flashing at the proper speed.

FrankSS

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If you look up posts I've made, I did my own camaro lights... Not a TA, but you can get the gist of it

2000dreambird

Sure thing, I'll take any help i can get, Thanks.

2000dreambird

I dont want a simple sequential kit, and LED replacements. I want a LED in every honeycomb of the tail light.

WhiteBird00

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Then there's no reason you can't use their universal kit - it just splices into the wiring to illuminate the three segments sequentially. Even if you build custom LED panels to fit in the tail lights, you would still have three sections.

2000dreambird

But then it would still flash in three sequential blocks. I want it to flow fluidly from one side to the other.

WhiteBird00

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You're kidding, right? You want to build a logic circuit that will sequentially activate dozens (if not more) of rows of LEDs just to be different? And then have nobody behind you really recognize what the signal means because nobody has ever seen it before? I'm all for originality and innovation but not at the expense of common sense.

2000dreambird

This is what I'm trying to accomplish

wayneg1035

You could put the led's in on boards and and run up to 24 channels per side with the board I did. It gives a cool sequential plus special effects that 3 bulbs can't. Check out the turn signals and hazzards in the videos below

Daniel Richards

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THAT right there, but with 23 (I counted a minute ago) vertical columns of varying numbers of LEDS (as it gets shorter toward the outside) per column and bang there is the look the OP is going for.