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LED rear compartment light & LED's into the dome lights

sae70

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I've fitted an LED light into the rear compartment with a on-off-on switch to mimic the switch on the main dome light. It's a 31 SMD (whatever that means) LED light that I bought from off of the Bay for £17. The blurb suggests that it has an equivelent light output to incandescent lighting of 15w.

Here's the link to it http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0686028657

He also sells a smaller version with 16 LED's (10w) for £10.50 & two larger versions one with 61 LED's (30w) for £26 & the other with 121 LED's (60w) for £43.

Here's the link to the eBay shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Ribblesdale-Au ... 4340.l2563

I also bought a small round on-off-on switch from off of the bay for £2.35 for the installation of my rear compartment light. This fitted straight into a 20mm hole made using a starrett cutter, with a very Satisfying clip.

Here's a link to it http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

And a link to the shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/GVC-digital?_t ... 4340.l2563

The only other item that I bought for the job was four meters of 0.5mm 3 core black flex from my local Ironmongers.

I also bought two packs (2 per pack) of these 16 SMD (whatever that means) LED 31mm festoon lamps from off of the bay, £5.49 each for the dome & reading/map lights.

Here's the link to them http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWNX:IT

And the shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/topbosses?_trksid=p4340.l2563

Although the festoon in my main dome light measured 30mm ish these new LED ones were a very tight fit & the sprung holders required a little carefull persuasion. For the front reading/map lights I just removed the festoon end caps, replacing them with a couple of short fly leads that I then conected to the main wiring loom. I then just stuck them into the light fitting using my hot glue gun.

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All of these next piccys were taken with no flash & I even turned out all of our garden lighting including the security lights, so there was no interfering lighting.

This is just my new 31 SMD (???) LED rear compartment light on.
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This is just the main dome light on with a 16 SMD LED festoon fitted.
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This is the main dome light & both of the reading/map lights on, each with a 16 SMD LED light pannel fitted.
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All on.
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It's looking good, er, I wondered what that glow in the Eastern sky was, I thought it may have been the second coming, it happened before in Jerusalem ;) :gay-female: :lol: :lol:
 
The midges are gonna luv those :dance:

Nice mod. These LED replacements are really good.

Chris
 
Thanks guys :) I'm very pleased with them :D

Chris said:
The midges are gonna luv those
Apparently not :o LED lighting is alleged not to attract insects as it does not give out the right wavelength of light.

If this is true then I guess that they just can’t see the light :lol: :roll: ;)
 
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They look nice and bright Steven, I thought collies had rear lights as Std. ? Mine does and I've now put a 36 led in there and I'm pleased with that I also put one in the centre dome, makes a world of difference :thumbup:
 
Very nice indeed....

BTW, SMD stands for Surface Mount Device....
 
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