Now that's what I'm talking about....very nice.
Eddie
Eddie
My LED dome light fix....
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Well Ladies and Gents,
I built an over head light solution which I think is pretty good. At least it is real bright at night and my 17 year old daughter was totally floored and thought it was awesome.....kudos for me....:0)
Anyway, I went to the hardware store bought some "U" shaped plastic trim that is used for the end of plywood etc...($1.70 for 6')...Then I bought some acrylic spray paint to match as close as I could to the interior ($3.79), went home.
Pic of LED strip and a couple small pieces of the U shaped trim I bought.
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I bought a whole shwack of LED's from Oznium. 2 19" white strips, one I will mount in the hood with its own switch and the other for overhead lights. I also bought a bunch of single orange and white LED's and a few 4.7" orage and blue strips.....still thinking about the use for these...
Foot wells, cup holders etc....
So I cut a piece of this plastic about 20", marked a spot every 1 cm and drilled out the holes all along to fit the LED's through. Test fit the LED strip, not bad if I say so myself.... Cut another piece to match the first....
Sanded both pieces with some fine sandpaper and then painted them...
Ran the wire to the overhead dome light. Wired it to the switch... Mounted the piece of plastic without the holes to the header with 3 very small screws with flat heads (¼ inch).
Placed the LED in the piece with the holes in it and then pushed the 2 plastic pieces together so that the piece with the holes in it was outside of the other. Nice tight fit and pushed the LED's down into the holes real nice. I can post more pic's if anyone asks...
Anyway here is the result.
First a picture of the LED strip in the plastic case!
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Next a picture of the light on (sorry it is blurry I will try for another her shortly and change it....March 20, tried for a couple better pic's with the flash off I cannot make it any better.)
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Third, a picture of the amount of light this puppy gives out....
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I built an over head light solution which I think is pretty good. At least it is real bright at night and my 17 year old daughter was totally floored and thought it was awesome.....kudos for me....:0)
Anyway, I went to the hardware store bought some "U" shaped plastic trim that is used for the end of plywood etc...($1.70 for 6')...Then I bought some acrylic spray paint to match as close as I could to the interior ($3.79), went home.
Pic of LED strip and a couple small pieces of the U shaped trim I bought.
I bought a whole shwack of LED's from Oznium. 2 19" white strips, one I will mount in the hood with its own switch and the other for overhead lights. I also bought a bunch of single orange and white LED's and a few 4.7" orage and blue strips.....still thinking about the use for these...
Foot wells, cup holders etc....So I cut a piece of this plastic about 20", marked a spot every 1 cm and drilled out the holes all along to fit the LED's through. Test fit the LED strip, not bad if I say so myself.... Cut another piece to match the first....
Sanded both pieces with some fine sandpaper and then painted them...
Ran the wire to the overhead dome light. Wired it to the switch... Mounted the piece of plastic without the holes to the header with 3 very small screws with flat heads (¼ inch).
Placed the LED in the piece with the holes in it and then pushed the 2 plastic pieces together so that the piece with the holes in it was outside of the other. Nice tight fit and pushed the LED's down into the holes real nice. I can post more pic's if anyone asks...
Anyway here is the result.
First a picture of the LED strip in the plastic case!
Next a picture of the light on (sorry it is blurry I will try for another her shortly and change it....March 20, tried for a couple better pic's with the flash off I cannot make it any better.)
Third, a picture of the amount of light this puppy gives out....
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nice work!
btw... do you know there's a little dude trying to climb up to your dash?
btw... do you know there's a little dude trying to climb up to your dash?
Yeah, that is my daughters TY Beanie Baby called Mooch....she gave him to me to put in there...couldn't say no... matches the truck....
matches the truck....
WOW! that really helps a lot. now i gotta do that to my truck. yet another forum member helping out the community, thanks very much.
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