LED's

[Monster900]

I had an old brake-light laying around. It had 36 LED's on a row, and I thought it would be nice to take that apart and start the little project.

First I took the combination from the car. To do so, you have to open the trunk, take out the fog-light and both reverse-driving lights and unscrew 9 bolts of which 2 hold the boot-lock.

These are the LED's taken from the brake light, on the green print-card:



36 LED's with 1 resistor per 4 LED's.

I've mesured the print-card and the part in which I wanted to place it, and took an iron-saw, with this result:



I found out the print-card was to wide, so I took my DREMEL, and made it a little less wide. Then I could slide the LED's into the plastic:




Now I inserted a cable for power:



This one enters the trunk close to the lock:



I've glued it all together with a glue-gun:



Last thing was attaching the power cable to the cable of the brake-lights, no pics there, but I guess you know how to do that ;-)


Next thing to do will be looking for a new piece, to make it all in a better way. Let's say this was just testing ;-)