Originally Posted by
falshami
time lord , i really wish i had considered uv lights in my cars eyebrows . thats a genius idea! must look soooo good, i can look into it cost wise, what colors did you have in mind? there would need to be a bit of quantity behind the color purchase as well to make the price feasible , (not just making a plug for me ) the resistor is always a fun thing to deal with and in reality your car has a regulator built into the alternator so you shouldn't need a another regulator, update on the lights i recently installed , i did not use can bus lights as i hate them to a very decent extent. i used standard led lights but a higher power one with my favorite type of led, they work great , only flaw i could see is i slight flicker under acceleration while rolling the windows down. my guess is the alternator is supplying more power and then the window regulator sends power to the system , causing a momentary light flicker, i dont mind it , these are much brighter then canbus so im keeping them , the car looks UBER good right now !
So far the few CANBUS LED bulbs I have used are quite bright and stable. Not really sure of the difference in design other than the addition of an artificial load to trick the system into thinking they are standard incandescent bulbs.
Not sure of the quantities of colors that would sell. I know there are those people out there like me that go to great lengths to change their dash and interior lighting and look for the proper colors in consistent frequency range. i.e. - I had originally lit my foot area with a few cold cathode tubes to imitate courtesy lights, but wanted purple. What I got was actually a pinkish color with a hint of blue, not the grape purple I am used to seeing with UV bulbs. So obviously these were given the old heave-ho!
Some folks like the blue, some the green, others the yellow or amber. And, yes, there are those of us nuts that like the purple (UV) and red. A more pure and soft white is a good alternative for those wishing to retain the stock look and have cooler burning bulbs that will not cause plastic housings to become burnt or brittle over time. This being one of my main reasons for my goal of getting rid of ALL incandescent bulbs in the interior. I've seen it too often, a slightly older car (10+ years) and the dome light plastic or other light lens has become yellow and brittle because of a hot bulb behind it for all that time.
Next on my list is the amber and red idiot (warning) lights on either side of the gauge cluster. This may allow me to have BOTH of the low fuel warning lights to work. I spliced in the original circuit that is in the fuel gauge, but had to remove the other incandescent bulb from the stock low fuel warning to get it to work. Too much load on the digital switching integrated circuit on the cluster board. With LED bulbs, it SHOULD be able to run two LED bulbs without issue.
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