Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:01:04 -0500
Reply-To: Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
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From: Robert Stewart <robertmstewart@MAC.COM>
Subject: Re: LED lighting
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This is a very nice LED system. He really went all out with the video cameras.
I would like to know how he wired the backup light. Very bright the lights he put in the taillight.
R
On Feb 21, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Marius Strom wrote:
> A friend of mine here in the PNW did the LED lightbar on the back of his Syncro. It's super nice - doubles as blinkers, reverse lights, and everything. A picture of it can be seen towards the bottom of this page:
>
> http://www.perrywales.com/Perry_Wales/Syncro.html#30
>
> (it's mounted on the bottom lip of his hatch)
>
> I think the product he used is: http://www.plasmaglow.com/fire-ice-led-tailgate-bar/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Robert Stewart
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 12:59 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: LED lighting
>
> Daryl,
>
> Don't hold out on me! What's the setup?
> Have some photos or documentation of parts dealers and the wiring diagram you used?
> I.e. what wires you tapped into at the tail light assemblies?
>
> IMHO I think it is best to either flush mount to the rear hatch interior window with an silicone or expoxy and use a sheet of arcrylic plexiglass that has been frosted on one and polished shiny on the other, this way it will pickup the light of the LED and radiate across a larger space. Either that or mounted on the Hatch.
>
> I would like to see anything you have if you don't mind.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Daryl Christensen wrote:
>
>> Coincidently. I just put a pair of LED Stop/Tail/T-sig lights on mine.
>> For now, I Just set them on the rear camper shelf to see how the
>> reflections did at night. Not horribly distracting, but needs the
>> lights either closer to the glass of to kill the reflectivity on the
>> rear lid just below the glass. The very top reflections didn't bother me much.
>> A temporary setup till I figure out a better way, but they sure be bright...
>> Daryl of AA Transaxle
>> 425-788-4070
>> "On the cutting edge of Old technology"
>> 86 Syncro Westy w/Turbo Zetec in the trunk
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of Sheilah Rogers
>> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:38 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: LED lighting
>>
>> that's a great idea!
>>
>> if i had my druthers i'd maybe do a perimeter around the whole van -
>> light up like a christmas tree.
>> whose gonna hit that?
>>
>> s.
>>
>> (homage to the truckers...)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Robert Stewart wrote:
>>
>>> Has Anyone Created a secondary LED Turn Signal and Break Light Signal
>>> that
>> mounts to rear hatch?
>>> I am thinking of mounting just below the window where the indent is body.
>>>
>>> I am looking to design and build one this spring.
>>>
>>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Question?
>>> Does anyone know which wires are for the left and right turn signals?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Robert
>>> NY
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