S4 LED Taillights Finished - Worlds First?

[vex]

That's pretty cool, did you do the boards yourself?

[My5ABaby]

Originally Posted by vex

That's pretty cool, did you do the boards yourself?

Basically everything is custom. The only thing that could be considered premade are the PWM (Pulse Width Modulators) seen in the third picture (green things with all the wires run to it). The circuit boards for those were made/designed by someone else and I installed all the parts onto them. Otherwise, every LED, wire, resistor, etc. was installed by me onto blank circuit boards.

To avoid confusion, the PWM are used for dimming. They turn on and off the LEDs numerous times per second which is unnoticable to the naked eye, but does create a dimming effect. I use them for the running lights.

Here's one of the boards pre-cutting.