HOW TO build addressable through hole led tail lights

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I learn how to build these addressable led tail lighs for a honda accord.
I unfortually decided to learn the hard way. I hope this video helps someone out there!
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@crunchynoodles9576 Год назад

I’m so glad there are people like you who post these vids they help me as a beginner a ton 🙏🤙

@zaccook Год назад

Thank you!!

@Jacobrivera52 7 месяцев назад

@@zaccookso if you get sent taillights would you be able to make custom taillights? and would they be kindve plug and play?

@nicksanders2591 Месяц назад

Incredible amount of detail, thank you for sharing all that info.

@pavel_toretto Год назад

very interesting and informative video, I've been waiting for this for a long time, thanks Zac!)

@zaccook Год назад

Thank you!! still working on these but are so close to wrapping them up!

@pavel_toretto Год назад

@@zaccook great news!) I'm very happy) to see a complete and leisurely DIY video. For him, you can even upload it to a separate playlist). You will succeed, I believe in you! You always have an amazing job 💪

@fernandotejada5215 Год назад

Muito bom, amigo. Ótimo vídeo

@davidkauka4702 Год назад

Badass dude👍🏼

@zaccook Год назад

Thanks!

@n0izes 8 месяцев назад

you might want to look up the voltage calculators the WLED project uses, makes dialing in your power needs really quick.

@4dscjoshneal Год назад

Exactly my issue with my (4) tail light panels I made, not enough power 😭 175 , 139, 139, 175 is my RGB count per board. I have power and ground running to each row to help distribute power and ground which helped but man I get flickering and sometimes a lone RGB will light up solo preventing the rest of the rgbs following from lighting up. I had to take a break after working on these bad boys day n nite. Very time consuming and if your a noob like me troubleshooting can be a PITA lol Oh, and I'm using (1) blue ghozt controller and (1) 12v-5v converter 20amps for the (4) panels. Appreciate your vids and input as always keep it up. I'm gonna have to try the capacitors and adding another 12v-5v converter to split between (2) vs my current (4) panels to see if that helps me.

@bombompow15 Год назад

Start there my guess is that’s what you need to distribute the power better

@zaccook Год назад

you got it! might want to check the power source that your using as well. that was my problem for a bit.

@TheMisterisLTU Год назад

What capacitance capacitors did you use?

@pavel_toretto Год назад

👍

@arbaaz57 Год назад

What size capacitors do I use?

@jhonmoveit1 7 месяцев назад

hey man nice videos i wanna get into building a set of custom lights too I was wondering where you get and how you shape the board the LEDs are on? What type of plastic is it and what materials other materials do you like to work with? Also how do you protect everything inside from water and how you manage heat? if you already have videos on this lemmy know, thanks :D

@xXSRS24Xx 7 месяцев назад

Came here to ask this question. Google not understanding what m wanting lol

@andrewbands 3 месяца назад

Illumaesthetic

@michaelskff 8 месяцев назад

What capacitors did you buy? I have the same illumaesthetic LEDs and I have no clus what caps to buy

@Jake_SR59 Месяц назад

Hi there, would you recommend through hole leds or the strips for larger applications? I am planning on making some custom tails for my 3rd gen prelude, and for what I want to do, I have to cover a lot of distance. Also what are some reasons to use one over the other? thanks!

@JoseGonzalez-ii5yx 11 месяцев назад

How do you add the capacitors? What goes where? Thanks for this run video. Really helped me out.

@zaccook 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! They are not directional so you just put one side of it on power and the other side on ground. Really not bad Just do that several times or buy the next level Neo LEDs those have caps on them already

@JoseGonzalez-ii5yx 11 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@bjboyy3401 11 месяцев назад

Where do I get the lay out for my car?

@drefusperry7985 2 месяца назад

I'm trying to build some custom lights for a lowrider and there is no though hole boards for the car. what material can i use to fabricate boards in the shape of the light housings?

@bombompow15 Год назад

this video fell into my lap like a baby stork dropped it off

@spoopdiewoopdie8092 Год назад

Hey man question for ya. Have you ever opened a set of hikari headlights for the va wrx ?? I have done stocks but wonder if it is the same as the subispeed

@zaccook Год назад

I honestly have not. but I would bet that they are butyl sealed.

@bombompow15 Год назад

also is there a source where you get the plastic to hold the lights?

@zaccook Год назад

Yep! Illumaesthetic has the boards and the leds

@RazoE Год назад

Well, why not just use the strips? Is it advantageous to solder individual LEDs versus the strips? Or is it because they're visible through the lens?

@zaccook Год назад

i agree! and we do use strips but this is a new style that has been getting more and more popular so we had a customer ask use to build them and we said yes. I won't do any more weird shapes like the stars though haha

@RazoE Год назад

@@zaccook well, at least the end result is amazing!

@JBworkz 11 месяцев назад

Hi zac, what is the panel you use to put the addressable LED’s through. Or the material. I need to make a custom shape one for Honda beat

@zaccook 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! Look up Illumaesthetic! I think they already have a Honda beat file if you don’t see the design you want you can get it created by them

@JBworkz 11 месяцев назад

@@zaccook I’ve been checking them out luckily they aren’t too far from me locally but I may have to make a panel board myself just not sure what material it is if it’s acrylic or some other plastic

@treqdz 8 месяцев назад

I have a question for you. If we want to set the last LED in green, the "green" data have to pass throught all the others LED placed before the last one ? Like it's full adressable LED but we can control then 1 by 1 ?

@zaccook 8 месяцев назад

correct to control just the last led you'll need to run the date through all of the other leds first. Then in whatever controller you're using you can set each led to what ever color you want.

@michaelskff 9 месяцев назад

I am doing tails like these right now and when I use a regular spi or any RGB controller everything works perfectly fine, when I plug the ghost in, I get flickering, I think ghost has a glitch in the software or something or maybe I have a defective unit

@zaccook 9 месяцев назад

that is odd!! I would make sure that you have enough amperage running through them. A test you can do is set the amount of leds lower if it doesn't stop flickering then you for sure have something wrong with the module. especially if the addressable leds do not have the capacitors built into them, they could be sucking up a lot of power.

@michaelskff 9 месяцев назад

@@zaccook I'm pretty sure voltage is not an issue I have two power sources and four power connections on the board directly bright white and everything is as white as possibly can be there's no yellowing at all. I should probably break out the multimeter and read the voltages around the area that it's flickering. But I just don't understand why every controller works perfectly fine but the ghost

@natjulighting6611 Год назад

The flickering in the beginning, something is touching or not making a good connection.

@zaccook Год назад

Oh i got it sorted out in the end! Not enough power or power injection

@natjulighting6611 Год назад

@@zaccook yeah that also I inject each row aswell

@treqdz 8 месяцев назад

where does the last DOUT is connected?

@zaccook 8 месяцев назад

does not have to connect to anything lol

@WeSeeThunder Год назад

Do you have a link for the capacitors?

@zaccook Год назад

amzn.to/43dDxno

@WeSeeThunder Год назад

Thank you!!

@abdoolhassan4457 11 месяцев назад

Love the videos, im using this exact video and advice to build my first set of taillights. for the capacitors you linked what size do your recommend? @@zaccook

@flaks_6161 10 месяцев назад

hey zac, is there any coding involved ?

@zaccook 10 месяцев назад

With the blueghozt there is not which is the best part!

@logansmith2248 Год назад

Do you not need resistors? Sorry for the newbie question

@zaccook Год назад

All good! For these no resistors are needed Since they are addressable we are going to feed them the 5v that these require (via a 12v to 5v converter) They will need capacitors if they are NOT built in like this batch of them from Illumaesthetic. But Illumaesthetic has since switched to the next level Neo LEDs which have the caps built into the led

@logansmith2248 Год назад

You’re the man thank you so much for the quick reply, so if I got addressable rgb led from illumaesthetics then I just need to buy a 12v to 5v converter 🤩 that makes it so much easier

@bmxer4life907 10 месяцев назад

@zaccook this is not true about them switching to NextLevelNeos addressable. Mine do not have capacitors. What size did you use for the capacitors in your video?

@logansmith2248 10 месяцев назад

@@bmxer4life907 that’s why I bought the addressables from next level neo. Built in capacitors :)

@treqdz 8 месяцев назад

where can i buy these LEDS ?

@zaccook 8 месяцев назад

Illumaesthetic