Who knows how to make such lights?

[Morten]

Hey everyone, I am new here and I was wondering what would be the right procedure of making such headlight LED surrounds, or whatever it is called? I tried searching for something that's plug and play, yet seems like noone makes anything cool for the Glanzas so far.

So, here is my projet, check out the picture

Also I think of installing a Hella option like this guy did - yet, I plan inserting one right into the headlight itself. And honestly, I am not sure about the lens, whether I will do that or no, but the tiny diodes like in my pic above is something that I definitely want. And I know that this is not the JDM vehicle that I've borrowed the idea from. It is a Silverado truck.

Now, I was wondering, if anyone has got a wiring diagram for the LED connection? As I am planning to drill tiny holes in the headlight itself, and then insert those tiny LEDs into each hole. Though I was wondering, what would be the right way to wire those diodes togerther and I wanted to make sure, that the LEDs won't melt the headlight plastic.

Any ideas/comments/suggestions on such mods practices is appreciated!

 

[Calum122]

You got to be careful with LED's mate.

It's not simply a case of drilling holes in the headlight and applying LED's.

By nature LED's will draw as much current as possible, they need to be limited appropriately. Usually with resistors, you then need a resistor that is rated to handle that sort of load.

Furthermore, LED's can get extremely hot, especially when running on as sidelights.

It's by nature that filament bulbs run hot, but they are designed that way. Banging a load of LED's on a potential 80 amp supply, could lend itself to LED's drawing vast amounts of current, and then by direct result, heat.

Therefore you are going to want some sort of thermal compound and backing plate to dissipate this heat away from the phosphor chips. (or whatever LED you're using).

Smart idea, but be sure to do your research, LED's aren't just pretty lights, but can have a lot of design considerations that need to be accounted for.

Good luck

 

[Morten]

Thanks, man. There are soooooo many details that you have to consider when work with the LEDs, man. The load resistor is not the most complicated aspect here.
The thing is about that heat, that I do not want to melt the plastic...
Frankly speaking, I thought it's going to be way less complicated.

 

[garry goodall]

what LEDs was you planning on using?

if you use the correct voltage rating LED and dont have to mess around with power supplies to run them i cant see any issue with heat? unless you mean as an indicator circuit in a car wont blink correctly with some LEDS so power resistors have to be used to compensate which do generate heat but indicators are used for a short period of time.

leds draw next to no current and virtually generate no heat, so callum122 i dont understand where you have had this information from?

 

[Calum122]

what LEDs was you planning on using?

if you use the correct voltage rating LED and dont have to mess around with power supplies to run them i cant see any issue with heat? unless you mean as an indicator circuit in a car wont blink correctly with some LEDS so power resistors have to be used to compensate which do generate heat but indicators are used for a short period of time.

leds draw next to no current and virtually generate no heat, so callum122 i dont understand where you have had this information from?

Let me think, how about rudimentral understanding of semi-conductors.

http://led.linear1.org/why-do-i-need-a-resistor-with-an-led/

I don't mind being called up on if I'm wrong, but you could at least do your end of research before hand. It takes literally two seconds.

And almost certainly diodes can generate vast amounts of heat. Hence why you will see rectifiers on cars, are mainly aluminium heatsinks.

 

[garry goodall]

I wasnt trying to be a dick

You can buy 12v leds, this would remove the need for a potential divider...

Such as https://www.12voltplanet.co.uk/FRILIGHTDOTLEDPNT.html

I know you cant just bang in a standard led, the voltage rating must be considered as too the draw current.

Recifiers are a different animal, they have to drop the variable voltage of say an alternator which will be a hell of a lot more than that of the rectified voltage thus generating alot of heat

That led i have linked runs at 12-14v with a 20mA draw current, a small load resistor could be installed to cope with small voltage spikes to prevent excess current flow and prevent blowing the led but would generate next to no heat.

 

[Calum122]

Perfect mate.

Yeah I was merely trying to give an overview of LED's to someone who sounded like they had minimal experience.

Just highlighting the need to take car