Light Problems
 

For some reason my right rear LED isnt very bright. The other LED is much stronger. Anyone have an idea why this is?

Maybe one of the wires has come loose either at the board or at the LED itself?

Hmmm...I checked everything else. No loose wires or anything. Do you have any other ideas what may be going wrong?

RETURN THEM!!! haha thats our solution to every thing. radioshack must hate us. lol

my first set of LEDS i bought flickered off and on and there was nothing lose so like yours so my guess is that the baord might be messed up like mine was, i took it back with no problem.

Yea I guess you are right. I'm tired of trying to see what is wrong with the lights. Now off to RS!

so did you get an new lights?
does it work now

Ive not had any problems with my light kit, aside from it using battery power. I think it was my fave upgrade to the car - the lights just look plain amazing on the car.

Why doesnt one of you tech/circuit savvy folks make a kit instead. I bet you could do it for a similar price and avoid problems with the RS ones.

How hard could it be?

Well, you've got the cost of the high-intensity LEDs, which isn't bad in bulk if you buy them somewhere online.

Then you need some sort of electronic switching mechanism (at least a couple of transistors) to switch between bright and not-so bright modes for each bank (front / back).

I imagine of the 4 pins, there's power, ground, brake signal, and go signal (for the headlights).

Gotta be some resistors in there so the LEDs don't fry, and another set for bright vs not-so-bright mode.

Thing is, when you get all that stuff together, you might be able to do it cheaper, but what about shipping? You'd have to ship in a padded envelope at least, which costs more than your standard rates (figure at least a dollar).

So in the end, it's a lot of effort for something just barely cheaper than the $6 that radio shack charges (by far the best commercial xmod mod for the money I think).

I'd say if you bulk ordered the parts, you could keep the cost down. Just do a "group buy" with friends so you have others pitching in on the cost.

For me it would be a voyage of discovery since I know little/nothing aboot capacitor/resistor etc stuff.