LED Indicators

Have for a while thought about changing the indicators to LED.


Not content with changing the whole unit, I made small plastic backplates to replace the standard plastic reflector. I made this plate the same shape as the reflector. I then worked out a pattern for the layout of the LED's, to provide the desired layout. On the front this is 25 Yellow and on the rear 20 Yellow and 5 Red. The red provide a brake light illumination in both indicators.






On this picture you can just see that the LED's are wired in serial in arras of 5. It is possible as you link them in series to "join" the negative legs together thus making a circuit and reducing connections. There is therefore 1 neg (-) connection and 5 Live (+) connections via a resistor for each array. On the front this is 4 Yellow and One Red.

I then connected the standard plugs to my boards and in the rear a feed for the brake lights.






This picture shows the assembled unit with the standard lens back in place. Through the lens you can see the layout of the LED's.














Here is a shot of the assembled unit with the brake light element illuminated.












Here is a shot of the Rear with standard brake light and both indicators illuminated.

The indicator brakes are quite bright but the camera toned things down because of the intensity of the standard








This is a shot of the rear indicator illuminated. Difficult to get the timing right !!!!














This time it's the front fully assembled.











The front illuminated.










And the front with the hazard flashers on.

The only other thing I had to do was change the flasher unit to an electronic type to get the flash rate right and that it.

Job Done and much brighter flashers at all angles.
LED's purchased from Ebay Yellows were 6,000 mcb as were the reds. I did not fit standard resistors as I explained earlier they are in series on 5's and each 5 has a 27 OHM resistor.