Shawn1112
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 |  Subject: Re: HALO lighting  14th December 2009, 8:58 pm | |
| There is nothing wrong with that.
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pjcharger
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| | Subject: Re: HALO lighting 14th December 2009, 10:41 pm | |
| ill keep an eye out maybe a future mod some red halos for the fog lights |
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jontoad
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| | Subject: Re: HALO lighting 14th December 2009, 11:16 pm | |
| | Iguanaman wrote: | | HiPwr wrote: | Make sure you read up on these things before you do anything, PJ. Hour upon hour and thousands of words have been devoted to making these things work correctly.
There can be a heavy price to pay for looking cool and that could just be your sanity. |
Talk to me. I'm 5 months into a halo implementation with nothing installed yet. I bought a set from AAC and I bought a set from Flashtech. I know what's going on with both of the main halo suppliers. There are gotchas for both.
Basically, don't take this on lightly.
BTW...Illinois law states only white or amber while rolling. It's not just red and blue, but any other color that's illegal while rolling as well. You'll have people tell you they drive with them all the time and no problem...that may be true thus far, but it's up to you if you want to take that chance or not. |
i dont over analize. lol. i bought, got sent the wrong shit, hacked it up and installed it. been working perfect and looking great ever since. haha._________________  2006 black /SRT//8/12.521 @ 112.263 MPH (corrected time) 2nd place SRT8 shootout Great Lakes Dragway 2008 / 2nd place Maywood Park AutoX 2009http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQeby5cB1Q / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0So5e-GGXM |
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Iguanaman
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| | Subject: Re: HALO lighting 15th December 2009, 12:12 am | |
| | jontoad wrote: | | Iguanaman wrote: | | HiPwr wrote: | Make sure you read up on these things before you do anything, PJ. Hour upon hour and thousands of words have been devoted to making these things work correctly.
There can be a heavy price to pay for looking cool and that could just be your sanity. |
Talk to me. I'm 5 months into a halo implementation with nothing installed yet. I bought a set from AAC and I bought a set from Flashtech. I know what's going on with both of the main halo suppliers. There are gotchas for both.
Basically, don't take this on lightly.
BTW...Illinois law states only white or amber while rolling. It's not just red and blue, but any other color that's illegal while rolling as well. You'll have people tell you they drive with them all the time and no problem...that may be true thus far, but it's up to you if you want to take that chance or not. |
i dont over analize. lol. i bought, got sent the wrong shit, hacked it up and installed it. been working perfect and looking great ever since. haha. |
OK, well, here's a little bit of what I've learned:
AAC: They sell their LED rings without any kind of voltage regulator. They tout that you can hook them right up on your car and run them without an issue. But it's a gamble. Put your car in diagnostic mode (I know this is true with an R/T) and you'll find that the battery runs at a little over 14 volts...not the 12 volts the rings are designed to run at. The end result? too much current going across the rings heats them up. I've heard the surface temperature of the AAC rings being measured at over 140 degrees. And don't believe the video you see of pointing a BBQ temp. gun at the rings that shows them running at around 85 degrees. You have to measure the temp physically on the ring, not the ambient temp. When the rings heat up and cool in continuous cycles like this, it makes the solder for the resistors on the back of the ring brittle and "pop" they crack and you lose LEDs in a bank of (usually) 3 at a time...three LEDs to one resistor. I KNOW people have seen issues like that with AAC.
FLASHTECH: Flashtech does sell their LED halos with a regulator, but they have two different voltage requirements depending on the color of the LED...many of the colors are I believe 10 volts, but a few colors...amber being one of them...run at 7 volts. I'll speak to that because that's what I have.
The regulator that comes with them is adjustable down to 6.5 volts or so. But for the 7 volt rings, there's too much amperage trying to run 6 or 8 rings off the regulator. The end result is the regulators go into thermal shutdown...you get flickering and maybe a color shift (like from amber towards red). I've seen this in person when bench-testing my halos.
All that said, a guy on LXForums named plcman is working on a new dual regulator that will address these issues. I've spoken to him many times and he's a really knowledgeable guy |
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