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I've got an Infraction and want to add some lights. I was a but disappointed with the kit I got for my Felony, and I enjoy fiddling with electronics, so I decided I'd build something myself for the Infraction.
I'll turn this into a bit of a build thread for the lights...
One of the goals was to get really even illumination of the front lights, so I got this PCB made up. There's a total of 40 LEDs on the four front lights, and 79 overall.
First couple of boards soldered:
And assembled:
And running at a fraction of full brightness:
I'm still tweaking the printing of the lens/diffuser to minimise light loss whilst diffusing so that the individual LEDs aren't obvious - and I've already fixed the issue with the top right of the red lens being too short.
They're designed to be an exact match for the design of the lights on the stickers, and I'm pretty happy with the results so far.
The only issue is that on full brightness, the main front light gets hot enough to soften the PLA. The PCBs are aluminium core, which spreads the heat evenly, but it's a lot of LEDs in a small space. Planning to try PETG for the part that's in contact with the PCB.
I'll turn this into a bit of a build thread for the lights...
One of the goals was to get really even illumination of the front lights, so I got this PCB made up. There's a total of 40 LEDs on the four front lights, and 79 overall.
First couple of boards soldered:
And assembled:
And running at a fraction of full brightness:
I'm still tweaking the printing of the lens/diffuser to minimise light loss whilst diffusing so that the individual LEDs aren't obvious - and I've already fixed the issue with the top right of the red lens being too short.
They're designed to be an exact match for the design of the lights on the stickers, and I'm pretty happy with the results so far.
The only issue is that on full brightness, the main front light gets hot enough to soften the PLA. The PCBs are aluminium core, which spreads the heat evenly, but it's a lot of LEDs in a small space. Planning to try PETG for the part that's in contact with the PCB.