{"id":3339,"date":"2009-12-19T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2009-12-19T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T05:51:08","slug":"starrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/19\/starrrr\/","title":{"rendered":"STARrrr"},"content":{"rendered":"

My order of Luxeon Star LEDs came in. I decided to order a few to play with, and to rebuild the center mount brake light on the FX. Safety check snuck up on me. I cleaned out the bulb socket in the rear drivers side, corrosion had taken a toll and made bulb dim. I also noticed my first custom LED attempt for center mount brakelight was performing rather pathetically.\"P1010391\"<\/a><\/a> It was done the lo-tech way with a bank of “hi-output” LEDs and some resistors for current limiting. Unfortunately the electrical system output on cars is not exactly stable and eventually the LEDs started failing. And these “hi-output” of that time were the brighter of the\u00c2\u00a0affordable, conventional size. Since then, a new generation of super hi-output LEDs have had enough development time to come down in price. \"P1010392\"<\/a>So I decided to not muck around, go for it and replace the bank with a single first gen Luxeon Star. And not wanting to mess around with building a power circuit for it, went ahead and ordered a Buck Toot driver unit for it. A bit of saw, file, drill, sand, Mother’s work on a tape backup cartridge plate produced\u00c2\u00a0an aluminum\u00c2\u00a0mounting plate. \"P1010393\"<\/a><\/a>I’m pretty sure this plate will also serve as a more than adequate heat sink for the LED. Here is the product of my afternoon of work. I know, I know, it’s not completely shiny. My air orbital sander decided to crap out, this only being the second use of it! LED’s have their light\u00c2\u00a0quite directional already, so I didn’t think making a mirror shiny back reflector would make much a difference anyway.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Oh, I should mention I used a plastic\/nylon washer under the heads of the screws holding the LED in, don’t want to short the solder pads.<\/p>\n

Looks pretty good! Too bad I can’t drive it!\"P1010396\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My order of Luxeon Star LEDs came in. I decided to order a few to play with, and to rebuild the center mount brake light on the FX. Safety check snuck up on me. I cleaned out the bulb socket in the rear drivers side, corrosion had taken a toll and made bulb dim. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-starrrr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}