Clear 3rd brake lens for use with LEDs Options

[wolfie308]

As many of you will appreciate, when you fit LED bulbs or LED panels to many lamp housings, you have problems with the light being
interrupted by the patterning on the lens.

You can see what I mean in this photo I took many years back of my clear copy of the 3rd brake lens with LED strip



I've been asked before if I could make them without the pattern, but polishing it out didn't seem workable.

Then I had a light bulb moment ....... I had a spare lens on the shelf, so I tried carefully pouring another layer of clear resin across
the inner surface, and this was the result...



So, what do you guys think?......if anyone's interested, I can make them up to order. Price would be £25 GBP + £4.95 to cover PayPal
and standard Air Mail

[The_enD]

I would still say the hazy looks better and won't need any modification. With the clear lens you can see all of the inside, thus requiring you to modify it further more to look good. With the hazy you just swap the lens and go.

[cellocinema]

i installed your clear stop lens today.
parts used were: Wolfie308's clear stop lens and Tigawoods' hight mount LED lighting.
Tigawoods' LED is white, so i had to paint the LED bulbs with clear red enamel paint. the white lighting was so bright, i had to apply 3 coats to make the light red enough.
i also painted the LED circuit board with BLACK(shown in the pic is white, but i changed the color to black. i don't recommend white since it is so prominent).
if the clear lens had been purely transparent, it would have been much harder to make it look clean because everyone can see the units inside.









This post has been edited by cellocinema: Oct 25, 2016 - 12:02 AM

[wolfie308]

Nice work there, I think that's the best LED 3rd brake lens solution I've seen to date. Another aspect affecting the look is the distance of the LED strip from the lens surface, but this is largely defined by the length of the strip itself