Great thread and great find on the cob led rings Nismo

dlongstaff, have you custom made those inserts to fit the cobs onto? Looks great!

Thanks, John

Yes I did make them.
I have the white on the front.
Pondman gave us the heads up on this.
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Thanks for the recognition

Thanks dlongstaff, do you have any other WIP pics of the build?

Ah yes, just re-read the first post in this thread, thanks as well to Pondman for the COB LED find

John

Hi doing mine when the cob led`s arrive just to get this right the black wire to the negative on the cobs and the white wire is the main lights positive feed to the cobs as i am soldering them to those wires (not the brake lights)
Thanks

Black and orange are the wires you need to use and they can go either way to the rings as they work both ways . You need to cut the orange wire going to the bulb or the bulb will stay on with the rings as side lights .

Thanks Nismo.

For those who are hard of understanding
This is the way I wired mine up. I hope it corresponds with what Iain said?


This will give you side light on = LED ring, when lights are on and a bulb feed to the existing brake light bulb, but will eliminate the side light part of the bulb when fitted. I did not want the LED off when braking. The brake light is bright enough to out shine the LED ring when on.

Just find and follow MY "how too" on wiring the led rings .

I simply covered the sidelight terminal of the bulb with insulating tape. No wire cutting and easy to revert to standard if need be.

Good idea

Things just got real.......my rings turned up today.

Just reading through this post again, making me more confused lol. Think it'll make more sense when I get my lights off, hopefully at the weekend.

I noticed with the old led how to you had to cut some off the strip but given these are pre made rings you can simply use as supplied and mount inside the light unit. If you have a photo I would appreciate it. thanks

i did mine yesterday, easy job.

I cut the orange wire in the back of the bulb holder to stop the bulb lighting up at the same time as the COB ring.

I soldered the two wires from the COB into the orange and black in the middle of the wires and insulated with shrink wrap.

I kept the bulb for the stop light, I dont like the dual ring look for side and stop lights.

The size of the 90mm rings are perfect, they sit about 1mm inside the outer rim of the unit. A couple of dabs of resin and job is done.

With regards the wire, i opened up the drain hole ever so slightly with a microfile to let the COB connector pass through. Neat job.

I'm going to do the indicators with 90mm orange but that leaves me to think about how to deal with the reverse light. I don't want to use the high level rear light as a reverse light.

Use the bulb as your reverse light as you did with the brake light

But it will be red... Needs to be white.?

the reverse lens is white so will show over the red rings as white light unless your changing the lens to red .

Was intending to go with the two red lenses and dump the std two tone lenses...

Ah I see , white led strips either side of the number plate for reverse lights .

Had a bit of a mare splitting the lenses and then getting them glued back on. Seems super glue doesn't work so used clear silicone. Just hope they don't fall off in the morning lol.

How rude of me, cheers to the guys who put the guides and photos up showing how to do it.

looking good Ste .

Thanks mate and thanks for the inspiration

I was thinking about mounting one in the middle of the reflector on the bumper. Routing the shape of the cob light / strip out of the centre of the lens...

sounds like it will work well Rudi .

I really wouldn't use superglue for jobs like this, mix up some epoxy resin.

Yeah lol found out the hard way. Used clear silicone for bonding glass, done the job nicely.