new guy here..

[fleishelja]

I bought 100 LEDs online from the manufacturer. I want to make my brakelights into LEDs. so they came with resistors as well, how on earth do I set this up. I know how to solder but Im pretty much a noob as far as individual components go. all my experience is with running wire and soldering and heat shrinking etc... I was planning on just drilling holes into the back of the taillight housing and epoxying them in but seeing that everyone on here uses fancy boards maybe thats not a great plan? I need help!

 

[superjoe83]

try here: http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=3 this forum is all about headlight and tail light retrofits with LED's and HID's

 

[Ken_McE]

Besides the HIDPlanet stuff, you might consider buying a spare set of tail light housings. Then you would be able to work on them at your leisure, swap housings when you're all set, have a backup if you don't like the first go round of the new lights.

 

[crazedmodder]

Don't recommend you drill holes and epoxy them in, wayyyyyyyyyy too much work. You can just get a prototyping board with a bunch of holes in it, cut it to size and stick your LEDs in then solder them up. Drilling 100 holes isn't fun. Keep a 3V coin battery on you too, good to test the LEDs, if these are the cheap 5MM ones there's a chance not all of them work, or work properly. I get a lot of these usually 10 or so don't work.

 

[LukeA]

I don't recommend that this project be attempted. All exterior vehicle lights conform to luminuos intensity standards. For example, in the US a brake light must be X foot-candles at 0˚ offset, Y foot-candles at Z˚ offset, and so on. If you do this mod without producing a device that conforms to those specifications and cause an accident, be prepared for the insurance adjusters to find that out. Then the consequences will be all yours.

 

[Changchung]

Check here;

http://www.dansdata.com/caselight.htm

Buy this kind of printed board

And solder like that

Good luck...