muddyford911

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Does anyone have suggestions on what I can use to connect these lights to the factory harness? I was thinking about using 3 pin molex connectors like you find on strobe light wiring, and also looked at some weatherpack connectors, but at $11 a piece I'd like to find something cheaper. The pic below shows the wiring for the lights. Again, the parking light and reverse light are dual color R/W LEDs. They require a constant power and are triggered by ground. However, since I'll only be using one color per light, I can use them as a power trigger.

Ideally I'd like to use a 3 pin connector for park/turn. Tie the two grounds together and use the trigger for park and turn as the other two pins. Then a two pin connector for reverse. Any suggestions?

ak_cowboy

I found that the trailer harness extenders work really well. Cut the wires in half, splice to your lights, then plug the ends into each other.

muddyford911

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Well fells, I have good news and bad news. The good new is, the tail lights are 100% done. The bad news is I have a problem with the vertical LED modules I mounted for the brake/turn.

The problem I'm having is that when the LED is powered on, it flickers slightly then turns on. That's fine and dandy for the brake portion. But when the turn signal is on it looks like garbage. Below are some videos of what I'm talking about. The camera doesn't pick up the flicker very well, but you can clearly see what I'm talking about.


This video shows the flicker more clearly. This is a white version of the same light on my work bench.

Now the question is, where do I go from here?

JLBlazin00

Just curious to see how this turned out???

muddyford911

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Sorry guys, I forgot to follow up on the improvements I made. Here's a quick clip.

LED tail light mod 2.0:

MikeyDubs

They turned out nice. What bulbs are you running for your license plate?

muddyford911

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Its a Philips 194 LED. Walmart just started carrying them in my area. Its a very "clean" white light. Not blue tinted like the cheap LEDs.

Mattloz

Hey where in Florida do you live in I would like to do your led mod or if you don't mide maybe making a pair for mine or maybe a good how to and where you bought the lights this is ****ing awesome

muddyford911

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I'd love to, but the LEDs I used were salvaged out of wrecked and surplused law enforcement vehicles. I have a collection since that's been my profession for several years. I estimate the LEDs I used for this build would cost a few hundred dollars new.

muddyford911

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Side note, I'm sure it can be done with the huge selection of LEDs on superbrightleds.com. I have a spare set of tail lights I think I'm going to retro in the future, and if I do, these will definitely be up for sale.