LED door and side marker lights

[Shep]

The color of the lights, because of the limitations of the digital cameras, looks a little pale.

I played around with the exposure settings when I took the pictures, and the only ones that had accurate color were the ones where the door wasn't even visible. All you can see is the light surrounded by black. The first picture you posted is close to what I wound up with when I did that:




They're almost too bright to get a good picture of!

One of the members emailed me with an idea of using two lenses together to get even better light distribution while keeping the stock look.

I have to say, I actually like that look. I prefer the uniform color of the plexiglass lenses alone, but for those that want to keep a stock look, it definitely distributes the light more evenly.

[refugeefromcalif]

Here's a preliminary test of my new Tomcio lights in Outside daylight.
I'll try to get pics after dark for an Outside brightness comparison.


Bottom door light. Stock lens, DMCH Upgrade LED bulb.




Front door light, Ditto old DMCH LED bulb.




New Tomcio LED with the frosted lens.




New Tomcio LED with stock lens.





I can't wait to see them in the dark, and compair their brightness VS. the stock lens.


George

[Mark D]

My set of LED door lights arrived the other day..... I was very impressed with the fit and finish of the boards. Installation only took a few minutes.

One thing I decided to do was install a thin sheet of HDPE (aka milk jug plastic) behind the stock lenses. It helps disperse the light from the four LED clusters and ends up with an effect sort of half way between what is seen above with the thick frosted lenses and the # pattern of the stock lenses alone.

I'll post up a few pictures soon. Overall these new LED boards look much much better than the old style LED 'bulbs' that produce a small pinpoint of light in the center of each lens.

[Michael Babb]

Got mine about a week ago, but have been out of town. Going to try and get everything installed tonight (and remember the "special order" that Tom mentioned? I hope to have pics of these installed soon !!!)
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[dvonk]

...remember the "special order" that Tom mentioned? I hope to have pics of these installed soon !!!

ooh, i am very curious as to how those look.

[Mark D]

Here are a few pics of how they turned out w/ a thin sheet of HDPE behind the stock lenses.



These photos shows the left half of the lens with the plastic sheet behind it and the right half of the lens normal. It's actually tougher to photograph than I thought, but there is a noticeably more dispersed pattern of light vs the distinct four dots of light.






Stock lens and no diffuser



Stock lens with HDPE diffuser behind it



and the DMCH LED's they replaced.

[Michael Babb]

Unfortunately only had time to install in a single door before it got too dark last night . . .so I need to do the other side and find a nice dark place to take some better pictures. BUT . . the LEDs that I have are ultraviolet (blacklight) and I think they turned out very nicely.

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[dvonk]

whoa, those are crazy awesome.

[Tillsy]

What would be killer is for two RGB versions - one defaults to red and one defaults to amber.

Feed a signal on them to indicate show/party mode and they ever so slowly fade through the whole RGB spectrum. Slow enough that you don't immediately spot it, but that when you look back every so often you swear it was a different colour but not entirely sure. Similar effect I do with lighting around my BBQ, looks fantastic and puzzles the crap out of people

[NightFlyer]

Hey Tom,

Just wanted to let you know that I was finally able to stop by my post office and pick up the LED door light kit. Everything looks GREAT - seriously VERY IMPRESSIVE! I hope to get them installed in the next couple days. When I do, I'll be sure to post a review with comparison pictures both here and on Today

Thanks again!