Building my own flush tail lights

[chasebank]

Damn! This is terrible news. The people at Oracle are breathing a sigh of relief right now ?

Enjoy that new whip!

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[WanderingJ]

ok, I take back what i said previously, theres TONS of pressure from the JT community on you.. lol Hey, that is a nice bronco. I know, sacrilege, but I like the broncos.

 

[Jerhemi]

Thanks for all your efforts, man! Enjoy the new ride

 

[Joe Gladiator]

too bad for us was an interesting process, but enjoy your new ride ...if you can do that in a ford ?

 

[Viper501]

The cad files, and coding are complete.... It's the wiring that is the fun part.... But then there's the not being bright enough..... I have new LEDs that fix that, but they require a lot of soldering, and a different programming board that cost $34 that has I believe 28 out puts.... So every 3 to 4 LEDs will have to have a resistor and wired to a different output channel to be able to do patterns such as sequencing, start up animations, and so on .... A lot of work.... so much work that you would probably have to sell for $1000 to make any sort of profit for your time.

All of the animation stuff is cute but not what I am particularly concerned about / interested in. I just like the more elegant and cohesive styling of your design with the perimeter light and tail. I can completely understand not wanting to spend that kind of labor cost on making all of the shiny doo dads work. Maybe sell a DIY kit for those that want those doo dads to work?

 

[BigLizzard]

Well this ruined my friday. I was hoping these would be available in some sort. I would still love to print these for myself if you are willing to give those files to anyone.

 

[EddyArnold]

dang it! lol...
very cool Bronco!

you going to drop the stl files for this style?

 

[Justinswidebody]

All of the animation stuff is cute but not what I am particularly concerned about / interested in. I just like the more elegant and cohesive styling of your design with the perimeter light and tail. I can completely understand not wanting to spend that kind of labor cost on making all of the shiny doo dads work. Maybe sell a DIY kit for those that want those doo dads to work?

I could probably still produce without animations.

Wiring the animation board is the time consuming part.

 

[Justinswidebody]

Well this ruined my friday. I was hoping these would be available in some sort. I would still love to print these for myself if you are willing to give those files to anyone.

Yes I will probably drop the STL files for all....

 

[Justinswidebody]

dang it! lol...
very cool Bronco!

you going to drop the stl files for this style?

Yes I can do that

 

[Viper501]

Favorite of alllll of them.

Still

 

[Viper501]

Did a complete redesign from ground up. I know hardly anyone will be able to tell....

Made things look more proportional, moved the mount for the light to the other side to allow for Blindspot sensors whenever I get around to designing that set...

Made the led channel deeper so that I can mount the LEDs to the side of the channel to help eliminate seeing individual LEDs.

Made the GLADIATOR word big.... Plan is to make a lens for the word so that debris don't get into the housing....

 

[amoyer_01]

I was thinking about taking mine apart. I'm sure it isn't too hard... I did notice before that the reverse light was easily replaceable...

I'd love to know what kind of LEDs were used... If I take them apart, and break them on accident, I guess I really won't care lol

Did you ever take the time to remove the tail light lens on the Oracles to see how they did the LED setup and the LEDs they used.

I wonder if they used something like this. I wonder if they added the lens to or just had the red outer lens diffuse the light around.
https://www.ledsupply.com/leds/cree-xlamp-xpe-high-power-led-star

 

[Justinswidebody]

Did you ever take the time to remove the tail light lens on the Oracles to see how they did the LED setup and the LEDs they used.

I wonder if they used something like this. I wonder if they added the lens to or just had the red outer lens diffuse the light around.
https://www.ledsupply.com/leds/cree-xlamp-xpe-high-power-led-star

I never opened them up. But you can kind of see through the lense and they definitely look like 5054 LEDs. I bought some 5054 LEDs and they're definitely really bright and will work...

 

[OneManClan]

Figured I would share my progress, and would love criticism, likes, ideas, other style lights, let me have it all......

Keep in mind this is still in prototype stage. Still have to add side markers. Make a finer 3d printed housing. Current housing is ruff draft quality for fast print times .​

Can’t wait until you want to come to Reno and bring a pair to install on my Gladiator (bought 3 days ago)… I’ll host!

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