BKLYN_C

Yeah, I also thought that 6 sideway leds would be enough.
If it is for breake lights than no problems, but turn signal will not look good at all, the bulb is just covered by a strip. In my case with smoked white inserts in the tail lights that was really bad.

BKLYN_C

Sorry for . Man get rid of those yellow side markers

Moon-Coupe

The bulbs I bought are for a Ford focus which has one dual filament bulb for brake and turn signal duties. I'll need the resistors to keep the blinkers from going too fast.
What's wrong with yellow markers?

advans

im using the polarized single led fitment, and they look amazing. i dont like the angled bulbs. i have a set, put them on first and they look crappy.

kcheng86

i got the PIAA SUPER TERA 6500K LED from ebay and it looks great

BKLYN_C

they looks little out of place, but that's IMO

Outland

Youre wasting youre time with resistors...expense, hot, and a lot of extra fooling around. A second set of sockets, repleat with the original 194's scotchlocked to the wires works best. Least heat, and dirt cheap.

advans

yeap ur right outland, i thought about this. I might do this for the fogs.

Yonosai

Could you please explain? or give us some photos?
What do you mean by "repleat with the original 194's scotchlocked" (my english isn't very good)

Thanks

BKLYN_C

Please elaborate on this

advans

by this, outland means. buy another 194 socket, from like strauss auto or pepboys or w/e auto stores.

splice the wire, and attach the 194 socket to ur exisitng city light 194 socket, so now you have two.

so if u look at it theoretically, it'll look like a "Y" the bottom is the original line, left and right are the sockets.

PUT one LED into the original one, and put a regular bulb into the other socket, (or just leave it?) and plug ur LED in, then there. enough power draw. leds work, no heat, no nothing.

BKLYN_C

That's connecting led and the bulb in parallel. So now you will have the led city lights and 2 extra underhood lights . And if I am doing the tail lights, I will have day quality light in the trun in case I lock myself in, I will not be bored and do seme reading till emergency arrives

On the serious note, this is a smart way to go

WaveyKat

Off topic :: but Bklyn C i didn't see u after everyone left the meet where were you?

BKLYN_C

, yo, i was the slowest one way behind all of you, eating your dust and collecting all the rocks

Started getting e-mails from work and had to go home. I separated from the group on Meadowsbrook when you took a NY exit and kept north. Militant and Jared saw me getting off and D2 also went north for some reason, but didn't look like he was lost. Did you go somewhere else

WaveyKat

i went home i took the Belt parkway i was tryinng keep up with the M3's,M5's and the fast *** M6 lol

BKLYN_C

In your all-mighty C320 and considarable traffick on the Belt plus strictly enforced speed limit you probably had no problems keeping up

MoNd3sTo7

Tell me more about the PIAA resistor.. I love PIAA product a lot

C230 Sport Coup

I don't see anything on that site called "single polarized 12v LEDS".

Can you please give the exact link?

I bought these 194 wedge bulbs with 6 LEDS.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=200081437024

Will they be bright enough?
Just need the resisitors.

How about a pic under the hood??

advans

no prob. these single polarized LEDs are the brightest in it's class, but, they are also hard to find!
I believe that the 6 leds would be bright enough. but did you buy them "narrow" or "wide" because they'll give you diff effects. yes you need resistors. mounting would be easy, u tap one to the power, one to the ground. and thats basically it.

C230 Sport Coup

Yeh, but what I'm asking is, I don't see what you are describing as available on that site.
Can you post the direct link to the LED's you are using, please or PM me.
I'm on my way to local Electronics shop to get the resistors.

Midnight Koop

you should write up a DIY!

advans

I shall! once the new resistors come in for the LED fogs!, (I bought the wrong ones! I bought 25ohm 25w resistors, I'd figure that it'd draw enough, but no...lol so I'm awaiting for the nearly $50 total worth of LEDs/resistors!) bought interior black lights!!!

c230 sport coup,

here is a pic of how they look,



I asked them yesterday when I ordered the LEDs, they said this one is "out of stock"


*EDIT*

ah... what the heck! I was gonna post pics up once this is all done, but, heres a preview.

Midnight Koop

very exciting... please continue to pave the way for us fellow c-coupe drivers

advans

yeap, i'm running down a completely diff path than my other fellow c coupe fanatics. next up is evosport pullies and hopefully the renntech box.

C230 Sport Coup

Went down the local electronics store,
santacruzelectronics.com, bought a 2 pack of 33 ohm 5% 10 watt resistors for $1.05 cents.
The LED's were $5.80 for both including shipping.

I installed them. I didn't have very much wire so the resistors are just hanging out of the plastic covers.
It would have been better, with a little more wire, could've secured them to
a metal support member thats closeby with a tie, wrap, act as a heat sink.
But they're ok for now.

The first one, I cut the socket off, and used crimp on connectors,
and it was a mess and took forever. In the middle of it all I drop the socket, and had to take the cover off the bottom to fish for it.
Arrgh.

SOOO....the 2nd one, I just used the soldering iron to melt the insulation on the wires going to the socket without cutting them.
Cleared away the plastic with my fingers.
Soldered wires to the resistors, put the wires around the exposed wires midway to the socket, electric taped everything up, and cut a little slot in the
plastic frisbee cover to allow the wires to get through to the outside.

DONE!!!

Here's an interesting pic.
Guess which is the LED and which is the bulb.