Building my own flush tail lights

[Justinswidebody]

Did you originally have LED or halogen tail lights? I know you have had many others since OEM but curious if just using a Jscan will solve any issues a halogen owner will have with switching to your LED tails.

I originally had LEDs and still have issues... From what I read the halogens with a proper resistor fixes any issues...

I haven't even began to tackle this issue yet...

Of course all can be fixed with jscan or tazer...

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[Justinswidebody]

As for a update, I have made a thinner version ..

Just finished making adjustments to it, and have some final prints going right now.... I was able to change up the lens a little to hide showing individual LEDs.... I think everyone will like this version much better... It's only 5mm skinnier but I think it looks a lot more pleasing to the eyes.

I'll have pictures tomorrow

 

[Justinswidebody]

Here's a few pictures.. . Also made a few slight changes...

Old design on right, new on left

 

[amoyer_01]

I like that the strip is closer to the edge of the back light housing. Makes the connection there a straight cut instead of following the curve in the tail light. It visually looks much thinner on the top view picture.

 

[Justinswidebody]

Here's a look at how the tail light functions so far.... Still have some work to do.

This is the older style tail light that I already had LEDs in... Wanted to see how bad wiring was going to be... Got some stuff to work on with animations still too.

 

[rharr]

you are going to need to split that LED strip in to 2 half's and wire each one half off the same input and have the end of the strips meet in the center of the C if you want to get a sequential strobe that shows a direction.

 

[Justinswidebody]

you are going to need to split that LED strip in to 2 half's and wire each one half off the same input and have the end of the strips meet in the center of the C if you want to get a sequential strobe that shows a direction.

Don't have to split it, I can do that with programing.

I'm still learning C++ to do all the programming on these.

But because the gladiator uses the same wire for brake and turn, I have to get creative with the programming...

It's a big learning curve...

 

[Justinswidebody]

Have a new version coming soon that adds an additional strip of LEDs... Should make it brighter...

What I did was make the channel from 17mm wide to 24mm wide.... Then I added a V groove channel so that each strip can be on a slanted side. Here's a pic to show what I'm talking about.

 

[Viper501]

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[Justinswidebody]

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Thread died after the video so I gave up ?

 

[teamblkdog]

Thread died after the video so I gave up ?

Keep going!

 

[Minty JL]

Monday bump!

 

[Justinswidebody]

It's coming along. My work needed me to work Saturday, so I haven't gotten much done. Then Sunday I was cloning a ECU for someone... Hopefully today I might get back into it a little... I'm short on time at the moment working 12 hour days unfortunately.

 

[Minty JL]

When not working I have been painting rooms within the house since; got the spare room/office and the kids bedrooms done.

 

[WanderingJ]

Why does work always have to get in the way of important things like Jeep mods and improvements. nvm we need money for said things...

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