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Baja light pods - 6V


perruzo

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Right then after much ado i have finally done the Baja lights guide....

EDIT: i now have DIY light pod kits and also fully fitted pods available for sale - various colour & power options - PM me for details & prices or if you wish to discuss custom options.

First some LED info, the anode (+) is the longer leg on the rounded side of the LED and the cathode is the short leg on the flat side of the LED.....

Put a pair of LED's into the first two holes

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Bend the legs over and solder to form your first pair. As we are running the lights off 6V, you need to wire all LED's in pairs to save having to install resistors. So this pair is connected first LED's neg(-) to second LED's pos(+)

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Now do this again another three times to give your first four pairs

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Now bend the legs of the LED's over to join all the positives of the pairs together and the same for the negative side. This gives you a positive rail and a negative rail. Solder them up but dont trim the last leg just yet as there are still two more pairs to connect.

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Put in the last two pairs wired together as before

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These last two pairs can now be connected to the pos & neg rails, two legs will be straightforward but the other two legs will need to be insulated to prevent a short where they cross the rails

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Slip the insul onto the legs, bend them over, trim, then solder onto the relevant rail

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Drill a hole through the side of the pod, preferably hidden in the mould hole at the back

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Slip some two core wire through the hole just drilled and then solder them onto the pos & neg rails. You can now re-assemble your pod

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Last of all you need to decide what power source, i run mine off the main battery by connecting the wiring from the pods to a tamiya connector which simply plugs into the charging port on the top of the receiver box. But you could use a seperate hump pack concealed as you wish. I assume by this stage that you can wire a tamiya connector on or a deans or whatever. You may also want to put a switch in the circuit but i just plug/unplug as required.

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Well that my first ever guide, let me know what you think.

perruzo

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Anybody not confident to do it themselves give me a shout and i will do it for a small fee. I can also supply DIY kits for all you budding electronics engineers who want to do it by yourself

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Excellent guide perruzo :good:

Was ganna get the ramtech lights,but seeing as i have everything apart from the led's i may as well have a crack at this,

What mcd led's did you use ? they dont look too bright or is it just the pics ?

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Excellent guide perruzo :good:

Was ganna get the ramtech lights,but seeing as i have everything apart from the led's i may as well have a crack at this,

What mcd led's did you use ? they dont look too bright or is it just the pics ?

Bright? if you look directly into the pod you will be seeing funny colours for a couple of minutes. Obviously the white pods are brighter at 13000mcd, the blue as Paul says are only 5000mcd (millicandela). In the flesh they are very bright but its hard to get a good pic. The third & second last pics show the light best. One is looking into the pod in a dark room, the other is looking from above in an already lit room. (note the pod is just on the chair - not fixed to the baja). I can take some pics later if you wish with the pods shining onto a wall in a dark room then you can really see how bright they are.

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Sorry dude,i forgot they were blue :rolleyes: yeah the whites would be brighter which ill probably go for,

Is hong kong the only place in the uk ? ive found some but they're really expensive here :(

Thanks again mate :good:

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Sorry dude,i forgot they were blue :rolleyes: yeah the whites would be brighter which ill probably go for,

Is hong kong the only place in the uk ? ive found some but they're really expensive here :(

Thanks again mate :good:

i have enough white LED's for another pair of pods if you want them? drop me a pm and i will sell you them, only

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I have just done some for Keenan to run off a 9v battery - thanks for your custom Keenan

Anyway here's some pics of them

Soldered up

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Looking into the light

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To give an idea of brightness this is one pod shining up onto the ceiling from 7foot below

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Any queries please give me a shout, i can do them in pretty much any colour & various power supply options.

Special pods coming soon - watch this space.....

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I have just done some for Keenan to run off a 9v battery - thanks for your custom Keenan

Anyway here's some pics of them

Soldered up

DSC01343.jpg

Looking into the light

DSC01344.jpg

To give an idea of brightness this is one pod shining up onto the ceiling from 7foot below

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Any queries please give me a shout, i can do them in pretty much any colour & various power supply options.

Special pods coming soon - watch this space.....

wow!!! cant wait to get them on my baby!! lol

cheers!!!

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They are easier to solder up for 9V operation but i have doubts about battery life as the two pods together draw 480mAH, most 9v are around 350mAH so you will get less than 45mins per battery but i'm gonna do a test with some cheapy batts to see for real how long they last.

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