The project started out from reading a post on www.deja.com (now groups.google.com) The original poster was explaining how to make a taillight for a motorcycle with an array of LED lights. It went on to perform several calculations for voltage and how many LED's to put on the array. I got brave, rounded up $48.95 for 100 Agilent HLMP-AD06 LED's from Newark.com and $12~ for some prototyping boards from Radio Shack. - brandon (admin)

Then I broke out the soldering iron. Previous to this, I had gotten my hands on some 94-99 taillights from Ebay as well as 4 amber marker lights measuring 1"x5". - brandon (admin)

Hole to slide the LED panel into - brandon (admin)

Tools Lights and Lens - brandon (admin)

Goop'ing the turnsignals back together - brandon (admin)

Assembling the rear LED panel. Since the lights need 2.0~2.4 volts per LED, I made 20 strings of 5 elements per string with 10 strings for each light. - brandon (admin)

While testing at 13.8V, the voltage reducer put out a solid 12.000V. Each of the strings has a 10ohm resister to drop the extra .25 volt. - brandon (admin)

Yes, they're bright. - brandon (admin)

Running lights. - brandon (admin)

Now having built the 2 arrays, I carefully dremeled a nice .5" x 4" hole in the side of the rear tail assembly. I used Loctite's Marine Goo Glue for sealing things back up right. - brandon (admin)

drivinglights - brandon (admin)

regularlights - brandon (admin)

cambreakin - brandon (admin)