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LED Foglight Project |
Spoke |
Apr 13 2019, 08:45 AM
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Jerry Group: Members Posts: 7,062 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 3,031 Region Association: None |
The design of an early foglight LED board has begun. mepstein sent me a couple of foglight fixtures to use to design the board. 2 main issues are fitment and heat dissipation. If things work out ok the design should be able to be re-laid out for the later square foglight.
The board will have 8 Cree XP-G3 high power surface mount LEDs with 350ma current each. These will burn about 1W of power with a total power dissipation expected to be less than 10W. Hopefully these will be almost as bright as a headlight. Each LED will have its own focusing lens. The lenses are Carclo 10192 elliptical 20mm lenses. The light pattern for the 10192 lens is shown below. This is the spectral dispersion for the lens. |
JeffBowlsby |
May 7 2019, 06:55 PM
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914 Wiring Harnesses Group: Members Posts: 8,671 Joined: 7-January 03 From: San Ramon CA Member No.: 104 Region Association: None |
Open the housing and disconnect the wires! No cutting allowed!
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Spoke |
May 8 2019, 08:02 PM
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Jerry Group: Members Posts: 7,062 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 3,031 Region Association: None |
Open the housing and disconnect the wires! No cutting allowed! Agreed. My LED boards are designed to be plug'n'play without cutting the vehicle wiring using the existing bulb plug to power the LEDs. An exception to that are the Triumph Spitfire and TR6 where the bulb sockets are so unreliable that LED boards connect directly to the wire loom bypassing the bulb socket. For the 914 foglight, there's not much play in the wiring at the foglight fixture. I didn't think there was a connector for the the fogs inside the trunk. One issue is the condition of the ground spade connector. The one foglight fixture from Mark the ground spade was rusted onto the lug on the fixture. For the foglight the original bulb socket will not be used as the reflector and bulb socket are not used with the LEDs. I'll make it work with the existing wires. Attached thumbnail(s) |
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