<VV> LED taillights

[JVHRoberts@aol.com]

Here ya go, if you want bright, and don't care about stock bulb mounting. 
This would be perfect behind a stock lens, both front AND rear:

http://www.norluxcorp.com/web/ps.html

http://www.optotech.com/data_sheets/OTLH-SHK1-10.pdf

http://www.laminaceramics.com/

http://www.lumileds.com/

There are others, to be sure. If you mount these in the housing so they are 
about where the brake light filament is, you'll get the right optics. Keep in 
mind, some of these are VERY VERY bright, and a LOT more efficient at getting 
light to the lens than a bulb, since they emit straight out from the front 
only. And you'll need a pair of resistors and a diode to get the right tail/brake 
function. These also come in amber for the front! 
I have a pair of the white Lumileds as bicycle headlights, these are 
seriously bright. I can only imagine what'd they do in a taillight using the red 
ones... <G>

John


In a message dated 8/31/2004 3:53:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ncwitte@wittelaw.com writes:
A friend and I have been toying with making some parts for converting stock
taillights on a LM to a custom LED setup.  With the design we are talking
about, there would be several options for someone who wanted LEDs for their
car.  One option would be a purely stock appearing setup.  Another would be
stock, except that the red ring around the backup light would also function
as a taillight.  Another would be that the car would have four backup
lenses, with the inner clear lens on the inside lenses functioning as backup
lights, the inner clear lens on the outside lenses functioning as amber turn
signals, and the outer red rings on all four lenses functioning as tail and
brake lights.  There are a couple other variations that might be possible.

Wiring would require very minor modifications to the taillight harness and
would appear virtually stock.

I have two questions for the group:

1.  How much interest is there in something like this?

2.  How much would people be willing to pay?  Cost is an issue at this point
but if there were enough demand that might bring it down.

Thanks,

Norm Witte
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