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Old 04-05-04, 07:34 PM
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Originally posted by O. L. T.
the small tube you are refering to is the City Light. I used two 10,000 mcd pure white led's there in each one, and it looked great. I could presolder and pack 4 of them for the city lights for $20 + 3.50 to ship to anyone interested. These LED's retail for $14 to $19 each.
do you have any pics you can post up?
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Originally posted by claus44
GOOD DEAL!
I paid $35 for a pair of PIAA LEDs for the city light, not to mention that each base only comes with 2 LEDs. Btw, does your setup look a bit blue when put into the housing?? The PIAAs are absolutely white when u see them directly, but when put into the light housing the light actually looks white/blue.
i don't do blue in my city lights. pure solid white.

can't tell anything in the pics, all the pics i take look white, standard bulb or not. i tried.
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Hey OLT,

How dense can the LEDs get? Do you only use 10mm or do you use 5mm? For axample on the yellow bar, how many can you fit vertically in the center part?

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OLT, if all I have to do is plug these in and They give me a hyper white light consider yourself $20 dollars richer How do you do payment? Paypal! Good thing I asked about this I bet you alot of people would like to get rid of those dingy looking bulbs! You should sticky it!

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Originally posted by O. L. T.
i don't do blue in my city lights. pure solid white.

can't tell anything in the pics, all the pics i take look white, standard bulb or not. i tried.
Nice I'll order a set soon

So anyone know why the PIAA's look blue when inserted into the housing? From the curves of the lenses?
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i'm not actually creating bases for them, you'll simply connect them to the two tabs + and -

Use a voltmeter to determine which. These are led's and they must be in the correct direction.
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connect by soldering them or do they slide into the connectors???
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thats up to you. I'm basically responding to the demand by offering LED's that are $14 to $19 each at retail for $20 for 4 of them (two each side). and i'll add the resistors to them and get them ready for you to install. how you do it is up to you, there are several ways to accomplish mating them to the connectors.
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the following pics are just playing with idea's.
Attached Thumbnails I've been working on the LED tails.-135_3586.jpg  
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4 (spaced off the lens and blurred out.)
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Very nice! Will the leds effect the tailight warning indicator? My understanding (limited as it is) is that the different resistance of the leds will cause the indicator to light up.
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re: the indicator. There is a LOT of resistance here and i don't think it will but , cannot say.







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Update. done and ready.









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