LED lights

**landrovermick** · 21st March 2004, 07:52 PM

Hey Vlad was looking at your album, and there is a photo of your lights - where you ask anyone know where to get LED lights,

Jaycar electronic sell kits to make your own led globe replacements - they look like good value, also in an Auto barn catalogue today they had led trailer lights for 104 each. but if you find a truck accessory supermarket you may be able to get em cheaper. They are reallt flash units and have higher outputs than normal globes

mick

**VladTepes** · 21st March 2004, 08:11 PM

104 ? Dollars ? Crikey !

Thanks mate - I'll keep an eye out.

Now where the hell is the nearest Jaycar from here ?......

DionM · 23rd March 2004, 06:29 PM

Originally posted by VladTepes
104 ? Dollars ? Crikey !

Thanks mate - I'll keep an eye out.

Now where the hell is the nearest Jaycar from here ?......

Brisbane Jaycar - there's one at the Gabba, on what becomes Ipswich Road, across from the Ford dealer (Metro Ford I think?). There's another out at Aspley, on the main road (what Gympie Rd turns into as you head north). Just near the Hypermarket.

**LandyAndy** · 23rd March 2004, 09:22 PM

Hi
Try a good auto electrician they usually add a lot less markup on non standard items than Supacrud etc do.
Narva have quite a good range.
Cheers
Andrew

**drivesafe** · 2nd May 2004, 02:50 AM

Bit late putting my two bob bit in, but a warning about some LED replacements.
LED auto lights have a very shallow viewing angle eg. if the light is fitted to the back of the vehicle, anything travelling beside you and have a viewing angle of more than 45 degrees will find it had to make out the light. Also if the sun light is falling on the LEDs the viewing angle is less again.

**bigbugga** · 2nd May 2004, 08:47 AM

Its a good point Drivesafe.

A lot of the road trains and mine 4wd's up here have the LED units but only as an extra set of lights not a replacement.

Sitting behind a dust covered road train the LED's stand out very well when the standard one's.

**landrovermick** · 2nd May 2004, 10:48 AM

Thats a pity, i guess thats why vehicles that have em as standard have clear lens units with huge reflective chrome inserts .

I wonder if in a break light situation witht he kit replacement led lights it would be better to use white leds as there is already a red lense .

mick

**drivesafe** · 2nd May 2004, 04:15 PM

You could try getting a few ulrta bright LEDs from your local electronics store. You will need suitable resistor to go with the LEDs to allow them to work in a 12 volt system.
Try red or white LEDs for with red lens or yellow or white for orange or yellow lenses and experiment.
LEDs have some good advantages over ordinary lights.
They last much longer, they use much less power and don't produce any heat.
Regards

**VladTepes** · 22nd September 2004, 04:08 PM

Was checking the Narva website: http://www.narva.com.au

(or http://www.narva.co.nz for our kiwi cousins)

They have some nice LED lights but the ones I like are the model 44 - they are round and would fit nicely with a '21st Century' Land Rover.
You see them on custom trays on some of the off-road custom built rigs.

Problem: As I read on these seem to be the only Narva LED lights that are not ADR approved. Bugger :!:

**-Macca-** · 25th September 2004, 02:45 PM

My dash guages have all lost their lights, so I was looking at some LED's to replace them. My old man donated me a 1 watt superbright white LED (Luxeon Star - LXHL-MW1C).

This LED comes mounted on a small aluminium plate. After some diagnostic work (Google!) I found that to run this LED off 12 volts, I'll need a 4 watt resistor (8O) and the little aluminium plate is actually a heatsink, which will sit at about 22deg when the LED is on! 8O

Sounded a little hot for my liking to be behind the dash (especially if I've got 6 of em behind there), so I'm looking for another use for it.

Just thought I'd mention it, as it's something else to keep an eye out for when changing to LED lights.

Macca

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