We're getting there:

 

Progress....

 

And let there be light!









When I get home from work the PCB will begin to take its final shape and I will solder the LEDs on. Damn you, work!

 

Dang this looks sweet I totally be down for getting you to make a set for me ha. I'm tired of my crappy ebay tail lights. Are you gonna fix the problem the ebay ones have where it causes the turn signals to blink really fast too?

 

pizza man, yes that problem can easily be rectified with a Tridon EP27 flasher

I decided to go a different route over the four vertical columns. The last column follows the curvature of the housing. And I'm damned glad I did so. I also ditched my plans for a dual-function taillight and reverted to a single-function for ease of manufacture.

Here are the two marker lights to keep them DOT-compliant:





And I doubt you can see them very well through the reflector:





Here is the array I chose:



Temporarily in its housing:







Through the reflector:





And powered from my base station at a full 2A output. Bear with me as I was adjusting photo setting inbetween shots.























These last two are receiving power through the potentiometer. The first one is running light dim, and the last is brake light full.





More later on

 

Looking good Raptor

 

Here is some nighttime shots of the completed passenger side. Final mount:











I am also upping a video of them in action. I am VERY impressed with the output of them. 10x better than the pieces of crap I paid $150 for.



eBay specials on the left, mine on the right. Running lights:



Brake lights:

 

They look great especially during the running lights setting

 

Those looks good man. Did you have to do any major wiring or was it pretty much plug and play once you got them all together?

 

Did you not see me assemble the circuit board? Nah its pretty easy. 12vDC in a parallel circuit. Its easy and fun for me but time consuming.

 

you gonna make me a set too? those would look sick in my 250 lights

 

Glanced through this at work mostly so dont really remember much of what i've seen haha. i'll re read through later.

But i was referring to did you just use factory style plugs to hook back into the trucks wiring. Havent had my tails out so dont really know whats goin on back there

 

Its a standard 3-wire, 4-prong 3157A socket. I have thought about utilizing the standard plugs too keep my truck PnP just incase I had to revert to incandescent tails, but I highly doubt that will be anytime soon. If anyone is to buy a set off me I would make them this way, however.

Jake, I'm not sure how close the SD internals are to standard housings, so I would need one to make a template. Mine took between 8-10 man hours and in a sense, were a bit rushed. For anyone interested in buying a set, a guesstimate would be $150 to your door for custom PnP LEDs. ~$75 for parts, $75 for labor. The quality would be better than mine since I'm busy the rest of the week and wanted them on ASAP. And if anything happens to mine (gasp) I can fix it in no time. If I had the time, I would've potted the back of the PCB, used better wires for wiring the LEDs together, and wired them separately for Caddy-style tails.

 

150 aint that bad at all.



o and alex what about white leds for reverse lights

 

too bad my tails are different then yours are, would be a bit more work to do for a SCrew/Stepside. I'm waiting to see some form of an led corners build now