Building my own flush tail lights

[ShastaJT6]

I'll tell you what.... Since you feel I owe you something, then I feel you owe me something. I will give you the file if you can show me a decent attempt at trying to cad a tail light for the gladiator.

Shouldn't be too hard... I mean I did it.... I didn't go to college. I'm self taught straight out of YouTube university.....

I'll stand by my word.... You show me a decent attempt that you tried to cad a gladiator tail light, and I'll share my files only to you.

If Im making my own, I dont need your files Noone needs college to learn CAD, Fusion 360 is free and so is youtube.

I know yall are having fun talking trash, and its cute, but at the end of the day, its really silly.

The deflection and attempts to insult me are an amusing distraction from a very simple point:
OP has nothing to lose, and the forum / gladdy community has everything to gain.

This is a simple appeal to reason. If youre abandoning this project, then it could go one of two directions:

1) End of the road

2) Spend 5 minutes uploading and sharing, and allow the gladiator community to run with it. You could see some cool finished projects instead of it being something that led nowhere. People might come up with new ideas and modify them in ways you didnt think of. You could save people hours of work by providing a platform for them to build on.

I hope some of the folks here can see past their emotions to the common sense point Ive been trying to make.

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[sharpsicle]

If Im making my own, I dont need your files Noone needs college to learn CAD, Fusion 360 is free and so is youtube.

I know yall are having fun talking trash, and its cute, but at the end of the day, its really silly.

The deflection and attempts to insult me are an amusing distraction from a very simple point:
OP has nothing to lose, and the forum / gladdy community has everything to gain.

This is a simple appeal to reason. If youre abandoning this project, then it could go one of two directions:

1) End of the road

2) Spend 5 minutes uploading and sharing, and allow the gladiator community to run with it. You could see some cool finished projects instead of it being something that led nowhere. People might come up with new ideas and modify them in ways you didnt think of. You could save people hours of work by providing a platform for them to build on.

I hope some of the folks here can see past their emotions to the common sense point Ive been trying to make.

Brother, I think you're the one with too much emotional investment in this...

You're making his case right now as you continue to badger and demand things from him!

 

[Rusty PW]

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[ShastaJT6]

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Fair enough I will not push the matter any further

 

[Rusty PW]

Fair enough I will not push the matter any further

 

[Minty JL]

Well this got spicy.........let me grab a beer and some popcorn

AS a funny note, the OP promised me the first set.......well it didn't happen. Perspective, I didn't have anytime or skin in the game. No harm, no sweat.......moved on.

 

[Arcticelf]

I'm not sharing my files, because even if I give stuff away for free, and this goes for anything, people expect support, for me to fix things or modify things to their liking. I quit the project because it is way too much work,and too time consuming for little profit.... I wanted to create a cool product that wouldn't break people's wallets... Well after getting into the programming, and wiring, (mainly the wiring) to get things to function properly just became to time consuming. Then to outsource all my work requires trust.... And who would I outsource to? China? Well that's wonderful, send my work to them, they produce it for me, then copy it, change a few things, and boom they're selling their own version legally.

Then give my files to people here.... What happens next? If everyone here who wanted the files new how to cad, they would make their own set....

They print their own... Then I will get questions.... What LEDs do I use, how do I wire them, how do I make them sequential, what other electronics do I need? Then there's the trouble shooting when it doesn't work because something they did wrong.... Who do you think they're going to ask? You guest it, me.

You can check in the diesel forums... I taught people how to do their own cloning of ecu's, so they could send a spare to be tuned. I never wrote a guide.... I assumed the people I helped would help others by paying it forward..... Didn't seem to happen. Finally someone wrote a little guide to help others and guess what..... I still get messages all the time about cloning ecu's. I just don't have the time to be everyone's customer support. I work a full time job.... When I'm off, I enjoy my little projects and time to myself... Not spending all day and night answer questions and helping people.

There's my reply to my abandoned project. Hope it is sufficient for everyone. If not, I'm sorry I failed you. Can't wait to see what you cad up and create... Everyone and myself put a lot of great ideas in this thread that shows what everyone wants. Good luck making everyone happy

Not one part of this is wrong, and I don't blame you a bit.

 

[DanJT]

I would love this as a rear tail light........ Damn those who oppose it!

 

[amoyer_01]

Got the LEDs wired and learned some things a long the way here. If you have the standard bulbs (non-led), the wiring for the turn and brake is the same. I ran a wire from the front turn to the back and made no difference. Once the rear brake wire gets the turn signal through it it becomes a signal. Knowing this before would have cut down on the brake/turn modules I got from Corsomotion.

I might need to try the SMD 5054s I have. Right now it is wired with Illumaesthetic 2835s. The running light doesn’t seem bright enough. Still need to get the lens figured out. Not sure the acrylic is working best and the 3d printed lens was worse. Might need to try printing them again.

the brake is bright though.

 

[amoyer_01]

A video of the turn signal.

 

[ParatusExpeditions]

Motobilt is coming up with those; looking at it, it'll be bright since they use baja design S1 (at least for the bottom one).

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[RockJeep98]

Motobilt is coming up with those; looking at it, it'll be bright since they use baja design S1 (at least for the bottom one).

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The S1 utilizes a highly specialized reflector and LED combination to put 2,320 raw lumens down range. This is per light so yes they are extremely bright especially for a reverse light.

 

[nbennettksu]

The S1 utilizes a highly specialized reflector and LED combination to put 2,320 raw lumens down range. This is per light so yes they are extremely bright especially for a reverse light.

Sooo. When would you say we can expect your motobilt tails?

I clipped my stock tail on trail 15 in windrock last year, November, and still waiting on the new flush mounts

 

[ParatusExpeditions]

https://motobilt.com/products/high-clearance-tail-lights-for-jeep-jl?_pos=1&_psq=Tail&_ss=e&_v=1.0

They also have those I think

 

[caryt]

None for the JT...bummer.

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