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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 10:59 PM
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That's awesome FX4life, what color is that?
So you say there is over 500+ hours in just lighting why so much??
And is that the LED strips or the tubes that you can buy?
I beleive its hyperwhite from www.oznium.com. They are just flexible strips of weatherproof LED lighting, I'll find the receipts and let you know exactly what the P#, color, etc is. Its less than1/4" wide and only about an 1/8" tall, really small, compact, flexible stuff but super bright! The christmas lights all over the truck ran off a generator in the bed, and where a one time deal

It took some time to decide where i wanted it, then to cut it and solder everything together, decide on wire lenghts for particular areas, find a path for the wires to hid, build a central power block in the rear to tie everything too... It requires some wiring, and a power source as opposed to a kit that has all the prewiring and instructions this stuff is 100% DIY. Hell its basically a full on electrical lighting system that can be run off the truck or powered off a wall circuit power block (basically a 12v battery charger). You never see wires or the strips of LED's, at shows that is. Clearly they can be seen in the parade pictures. A Kit is probably easier if you dont want to spend a bit of time soldering, wiring, etc... Its not hard but time consuming, I'm sure any of us could do it easily though

I think this is the stuff http://www.oznium.com/flexible-led-strips, I THINK its the weatherproof ribbon stuff, in "cool white" but ill check this against my reciepts to be sure!
 

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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 01:03 AM
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white, cause it is a great color.....
 
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 01:19 AM
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white, cause it is a great color.....
I figured you would say that
 
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by FX4life
I beleive its hyperwhite from www.oznium.com. They are just flexible strips of weatherproof LED lighting, I'll find the receipts and let you know exactly what the P#, color, etc is. Its less than1/4" wide and only about an 1/8" tall, really small, compact, flexible stuff but super bright! The christmas lights all over the truck ran off a generator in the bed, and where a one time deal

It took some time to decide where i wanted it, then to cut it and solder everything together, decide on wire lenghts for particular areas, find a path for the wires to hid, build a central power block in the rear to tie everything too... It requires some wiring, and a power source as opposed to a kit that has all the prewiring and instructions this stuff is 100% DIY. Hell its basically a full on electrical lighting system that can be run off the truck or powered off a wall circuit power block (basically a 12v battery charger). You never see wires or the strips of LED's, at shows that is. Clearly they can be seen in the parade pictures. A Kit is probably easier if you dont want to spend a bit of time soldering, wiring, etc... Its not hard but time consuming, I'm sure any of us could do it easily though

I think this is the stuff http://www.oznium.com/flexible-led-strips, I THINK its the weatherproof ribbon stuff, in "cool white" but ill check this against my reciepts to be sure!
Dang that stuff is $130 for only 16'...and you used over 50'...so that would be around $520. The stuff OGTerror used was way cheaper but it still looked good. I'm not about to drop that kind of dough on some accent lighting. I think I'll just stick with the tubes and see how that comes out or the cheaper flex-strips. I really appreciate all your help.
I'm kind of a newbie on wiring....when you say "central power block" what are you referring to?
 
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 01:54 AM
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Dang that stuff is $130 for only 16'...and you used over 50'...so that would be around $520. The stuff OGTerror used was way cheaper but it still looked good. I'm not about to drop that kind of dough on some accent lighting. I think I'll just stick with the tubes and see how that comes out or the cheaper flex-strips. I really appreciate all your help.
I'm kind of a newbie on wiring....when you say "central power block" what are you referring to?

Well it sure as hell was not that expensive when I bought it! I bought it by the foot and it was not that much i know that for sure...

Every string of lighting I have has a wire (pos/neg connections) and runs to a box I built with pretty much a panel in it, down one side are the neg. terminals and down the other are the pos. terminals, and at each end are the main connections for a common ground and a common positive (either a wire from the battery I can use, or a wire from the wall plug source I can use). This is pretty much just becaues I planned on it coming in and out just for shows/events, had I wanted it permanant I would have probably just split it with two wires one for each side and the strings splicing in parallel to the wire(s) run down either side, all tied to a switch and the battery... but anywho..

I did mine back in oct. 08, that price seems out of whack! I still havenot crossed my reciepts yet but when I do i'll let ya know what I payed. Sounds like tubes and/or whatever OG has is your best bet I know a guy that has one of those chevy HHR's and he found some LED lighting that was as thin as spaghetti strings for what he was doing, I have seen it and it's insane! I know he said it was cheap, ill have to give him a call to see if I cant get you the low down on the stuff he went with. He was interested in the setup i had at a show we both attended and i let him borrow some of my left overs to see about for his gig and he never told me why he didn't go with the oznium stuff, now i guess i know why... The damn price!
 

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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 02:04 AM
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Well it sure as hell was not that expensive when I bought it! I bought it by the foot and it was not that much i know that for sure...

Every string of lighting I have has a wire (pos/neg connections) and runs to a box I built with pretty much a panel in it, down one side are the neg. terminals and down the other are the pos. terminals, and at each end are the main connections for a common ground and a common positive (either a wire from the battery I can use, or a wire from the wall plug source I can use). This is pretty much just becaues I planned on it coming in and out just for shows/events, had I wanted it permanant I would have probably just split it with two wires one for each side and the strings splicing in parallel to the wire(s) run down either side, all tied to a switch and the battery... but anywho..
Yeah that price is ridiculous. Any help is welcomed.
Also if you time and could get me some pics of the above Spanish you
talking about I'd appreciate it I'm terrible at wiring, I may need help installing this stuff
 
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Old Sep 2, 2009 | 09:23 AM
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Yeah that price is ridiculous. Any help is welcomed.
Also if you time and could get me some pics of the above Spanish you
talking about I'd appreciate it I'm terrible at wiring, I may need help installing this stuff
Yea I sure as hell would not have bought it at those prices.. Once you see a diagram/ picture of what im talking about it will all make sense and seem super easy! Trust me I'm not that hot at wiring either, but it helps when my father is an electrical engineer
 
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