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10-24-2012, 09:10 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newcastle, Canada
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|  DIY Functional Light bar
This uses 2 sized of aluminum u channel to make and is painted rattle can black. The lights are wired for 11.1V. The 2 outter led's are standard bright led's but the inside are six 3 chip 5050 SMD led's. The setup is freaky bright. I also have two 9 led flashlights converted for headlights. I am waiting on some 47 ohm resistors to get the headlights at full brightness. It literally will light up a dark room. The entire light bar can be submerged in water. Is this 100% scale? Probably not but it does resemble the new LED off-road light bars. The bar is just placed on the top of the truck. I will tap the holes and bolt it down tonight. I lit up pictures is just resting on top of a 3S lipo. The truck is used for mainly trail running and some scale crawling. We have night runs so this should light up the trail a little better  tried taking some pics Last edited by Speedtospare; 10-24-2012 at 09:33 AM. |
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10-26-2012, 11:50 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newcastle, Canada
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
lol guess no one likes hand made trail lights. For anyone interested in function of fashion. Here a picture of them with the heads. |
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10-26-2012, 11:55 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2010 Location: The east coast
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
do you have any more pics of the bar itself? this is a good idea. what led light strip are you using?
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10-26-2012, 12:31 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newcastle, Canada
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
No more pictures on me but I will take some this weekend. The strip led's are 5050 SMD (3 chip) with black PCB backing. Only downfall is that is designed for 12V. I bought 25 ft off of ebay for $28, just look p 505 smd strip black. Its cheaper without the black pcb backing. The aluminum channel is just from the local hardware store. There 2 different sizes that I just flipped around to fit one inside the other. The ends are just bent to over the openeing. This is the second version I made. The 3rd will be even better I will silver solder and grind the gaps for a complete smooth look.
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10-26-2012, 01:44 PM
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| RCC Addict  Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Land of 10,000 Lakes
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
that thing looks great!!! that is awesome man! were did u get the lights?
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10-26-2012, 02:34 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bridgeport
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
Fantastic job on those lights!
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01-27-2014, 10:21 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orygun
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
Any updates on this set up? Pics of the frame work would be awesome.
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01-27-2014, 11:31 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Posts: 3,099
| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
nice job of putting that together looks great ! You could paint the front facia black leaving clear openings just over the light diodes maybe still not to scale... but would look cooler  ^ plastic dip spray... so you can change yer mind |
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03-01-2014, 05:48 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Lithgow Australia
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| Re: DIY Functional Light bar
Awsome looking lightbar, might have to try make this myself
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