Door handle lights?, Oh yes I went there Options

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Hell yeah! it was a very productive saturday.

These are preassembled 12V LED's from oznium.com (essentially just standard 5mm LED's with the resistor already soldered on and heatshrunk) White of course as I am in the process of changing all my interior lights to white. ALready got the climate control led's changed...they were hella bright though (like blinding) so I put a big blob of white paint on the end of all the diodes and it toned them down quite a bit...looks ballin...anyways that's another thread entirely.

Right then....on with the show, I literally had 8 different projects on the go today involving multiple vehicles, my air compressor, light fixtures....and a weed whacker (couldn't get the bloody engine to run properly though so I set it aside for another day)


First some careful pondering and planning:


Then a couple precision drilled holes:


The idea is the LED is attached to the frame/handle assembly itself. As the bezel needs to come on and off it just has a small hole which the head sticks out of when installed:



Nice little glob of silicone and a ty-wrap to hold everything in place:



And here we are wired in to the door lights:



And finally assembled:



sweet, I'm diggin it.

You'll probably be seeing a few more of these from me as I can't actually legally drive the car yet...she just sits in the garage, patiently waiting, while I wash and polish and modify and tweak .....just waiting for some paper pusher to get off his ass and do some actual work for a change

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they are quite bright...they would be very distracting if on all the time