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Posted by: icedogbill Jun 30 2006, 07:00 AM

Need a source for LEd lights and sockets

Posted by: MBowman325 Jun 30 2006, 08:23 AM

I need five or so of the winning Lotto numbers for here by Saturday.

What are you going to use them for? Digi-Key may be a good source for you. Unfortunately, my dog ate my DIgi-Key catalog a week or so after I got it in, and I've not gotten another one. You can look online, or order one, they're free and huge. There's another place at the edge of my mind, but I can't recall the name...

Posted by: lapuwali Jun 30 2006, 09:05 AM

http://www.superbrightleds.com makes LED "bulbs" using std. auto bulb bases of several types. I haven't tried to use these myself, yet.

Posted by: icedogbill Jun 30 2006, 09:30 AM

Going to use the lights in my third brakelight.The existing lights get way to hot and 32-Watt current draw is way to extreme.Feel as though there is a fire danger with
the existing setup.

Posted by: "Z" Jun 30 2006, 10:06 AM

Best to buy another third brake light. Engman used to have some nice units from a Corvette.

Posted by: Engman Jun 30 2006, 10:50 AM

Thanks for the plug but they be gone Tim.

M

Posted by: MBowman325 Jun 30 2006, 01:01 PM

I've not had much experience with LEDs in my cars. A PO put them as Dash lights and license plate lights in the Aero, and I pulled them. (Due to the nature of LEDs, I personally do not believe that they are viable replacements for gauge bulbs or applications where you expect to dimm them)

For a 3rd tail light, as a drop in bulb replacement, there should be some out there. Not sure how many bulbs your 3rd light uses, I know 1-2 seems std on my cars, but if you have a longer one that uses 4, and you're so inclined, gut your old one and build one yourself. Maybe not in that order. COuld do some fun things if you went that route, maybe.

(I just looked over the site that James posted, looks like interesting stuff, and they say that their LEDs will dimm properly in a gauge cluster, so companies must be doing something different with their "bulbs" than they were several years ago.)

Posted by: lapuwali Jun 30 2006, 01:20 PM

There are some LED "light bars" available in several places, which are often suitable for third brake lights. These usually use 8-12 LEDs.

I saw the comment about dimming on the Superbright site, and I'm a bit puzzled, too. I don't claim to know enough about voodoo analog electronics to explain this.

I intend to try their bulbs at some point, as a fairly low priority item on a very long project list.

Posted by: Brando Jun 30 2006, 08:23 PM

I also suggest Super Bright LEDs. Only thing is, with our cars you will need a suitable electronic flasher unit, as our cars use an older heating element to trigger the switching on/off of blinking lights.

Posted by: Stieve Jul 9 2006, 06:09 PM

Anyone do this? I am thinking about LED tail lights

Posted by: scotty b Jul 9 2006, 06:30 PM

?Interesting? side note. We had a '91 Alfa spyder in last week for some repair werk. Bone stock car with a factory3rd brake light that was identical to the Vette 3rd brakelight.