maxima985spd

7-11-07 free slurpee day,

my boy Chris came over and I put some Kevlo LED tail lights in his car. Very easy to install the boards. the hardest part is opening the tail lights and keeping the sticky stuff of your hands. they came out awesome and i want to get them now.



Chris gave me an intake to try. it sounds pretty good it whistles a little bit at idle and on the throttle. it was dangling a little bit so I strapped some rope on there and this is the end result:



here is another picture. we tried this 5 minute clear headlight product too. it works so nice and my headlights look like brand new again.



Thanks for viewing my little storyline!

MaximaSpd85

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i LOVE it!!!

btw, was it really free slurpee day?

maxima985spd

At 7-11 it was, hence the date.

ThurzNite

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7.11 oz free... like a small drink. Yay!
Jae

MorpheusZero

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I think your intake is more ghetto than my intake.

Looking good in the last shot though.

maxima985spd

post a picture of your intake.

chazmcgee

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oh i got one thats a little more engineered let me go take a pic lol

MorpheusZero

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Removed snorkel.

ethnic6

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lol, awesome mod!, ur cars look great

maxprivate

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love the tails but whats the gaurantee the leds wont go out? i have done leds in my gauges etc, and they dont last very long. maybe i need to add the diodes like some people say.

f550maranello2

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u need resistors... if u dont use them the leds burn...

matty

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Ghetto Fabulous

-matt

Ruthless

A common use of a Diodes is to change AC to DC.... they resists current 1 way...

he is right.. Resistors is the cure... normaly LED's have a 1.5V drop... So if you have a 12 V source, with 3 LED's Clearly you are over powering them... So you would put a resistor in (or 2) to drop the rest of the volts....



Schoolin FTW

maxima985spd

Yea Kevlo uses diodes.

WhiteA32

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nice job dude

maximomar

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um do i see some led's or other light source in the strut mounts? or is it just a reflection?

SMOKEYMOUNTAIN

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very nice man

Ruthless

Kevlo uses diodes beceause he has no clue what is going on....


google How a Diode works......



thanks for comming out

http://encyclobeamia.solarbotics.net...les/diode.html




if you dont feel like reading, here is the "just" of it.....


The function of a diode is to allow current in one direction and to block current in the opposite direction.


Any time boys....

SVI30

If you use diode in place of resistors, use multiple diodes in series. Each diode (silicon) will drop 0.7V. So if your taillight LED is rated at 5V, your will need a 7V drop. So there will be 10 diodes in series.

If resistors will be used, the resister will need to be sized also:

Same 5V LED assembly, let's said they draw 0.5A

7V=current*resistance
the resistance should be 14 ohms. The power rating of the resistor needs to be:

W=current*current*resistance=0.5*0.5*14=3.5W
So a 5 watts 14 ohms resistor will be perfect.

A 5V voltage regulator will work also.

So you have 3 choices to drop from 12V power source.

MorpheusZero

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Was about to say this. But a resistor would obviously be slightly more purpose-suited for the job.

However, if you're really that lazy and don't feel like doing any "confusing" calculations, diodes are the way to go--constant voltage drop ftw...

Ruthless

true, diodes do have a 0.7V drop. It appears someone else has gone to school. The resistors would be the proper way to do it, because you can get resistors of different values, Thust, you could use one resistor to drop the remaining volts you need.. Rather then stacking "x" amount of diodes together.... Both would work, one is proper tho.

Ruthless

/agree


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Kevlo911

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Please don't ever bash my products if YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON. I use diodes, why? So the brake 12v and the parking 12v signal don't mix. Please don't try to school me on these tails okay.


I use a 12v voltage regulator on the tails too so the LEDs should not burn out unless they are defective. One thing I will admit to is I was off 3ohms on some of the resistors but it is no biggie on the life of the leds.

matty

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maximariceboi

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cool
10char

'96 B-rad

I love the tails how much did you pay for them? I like my clear/reds but those are nicer.

NismoMax1119

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car looks good. intake looks ghetto as ****. hahahhaha

maxprivate

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i know that you do need resistors and used them. i was stating that maybe i need to add a diode with each led ie, that would be resistor and diode in series with each led. i have read that if you dont use the diodes your led will fail premature (do to voltage back feeding through them),and i am experiecing this now. i have done the leds in the bose radio and one of them is flashing on and off at times. i have also done the leds in the climate control and already one has failed. it hasnt even been a year yet. so now i have to take everything apart and replace them. so annoying.

maxima985spd

yea they are LEDs, search for them on eBay i got them for like 15 shipped.

nalc

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You can't have currents flowing backward through a Light Emitting Diode

While a diode will give you a constant (albeit small) voltage drop independent of current, and while it can be used with a LED, there's absolutely no reason that it would be necessary. The only reason I would see to use diodes instead of a single resistor would be if dealing with very large currents. Since LEDs only draw a few dozen milliamps, it wouldn't be neccessary. If you were drawing a few amps, that's when it might make sense to get a high current diode instead of trying to find a very big 100w resistor.

maxima985spd

who cares the LED boards are very well made and work excellent so STFU all you haters I would like to see your guys make some.

Kevlo911

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Maybe you guys aren't paying attn. I DID NOT USE DIODES IN PLACE OF RESISTORS!!!!!!!

See diodes?

Look where they are


See the resistors now?


tisk tisk tisk

G4nismo

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^^^ man i still don't see those resistors...what do they look like again? :

G4nismo

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Chris gave me an intake to try. it sounds pretty good it whistles a little bit at idle and on the throttle. it was dangling a little bit so I strapped some rope on there and this is the end result:




i have the same FSTB as you do! EBAY FTW!

maxima985spd

the diodes are at the end of the wires, there are resistors on the board.

TrackSmart

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Seems a little dangerous to have dangling ropes in your engine bay. If that thing manages to untie itself it could be a problem... Also, the heat of the engine bay might cause the rope to either become brittle (or melt if it's nylon). That wouldn't be good either...

If you decide to keep that sucker on there, I'd try a less scary solution...

Alright, I'll try to stop playing nanny now. It's not easy. Stepping off of my soap box...

'96 B-rad

Hey Kevlo how much are you selling them for? Im insterested in replacing my clear/reds for those.

Snypa

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im loving those rear lights,they looking rell sweet.

maxprivate

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someone came up with that idea of using diodes instead of resistors not me. i simply stated that maybe they are needed in series WITH resistors to regulate voltage flow one way. i have had mine installed not even a year and i have a few that failed. i think it was that larzio guy that stated that diodes are needed or the leds will fail premature. this is whats happening to me unless i have a bad batch of leds

f550maranello2

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ok guys not all of u know what the fawk ur talking about...

what u need to do is to place 1 diode for each tail light right on the power output from the PWM.... WHY? cuz there could be a reverse current flow from the LED's.....

no everybody calm down.. i am the second person on here to have led tails.. iv had them longer than everyone on here....... all u need is ONE diode per tail light so that i can block any reverse current... not one diode per LED if u dont know what ur talking about or u think ur smart cuz u looked it up on google please dont post...

kevlo knows what hes doing..