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Originally Posted by 88turboii
have you thought about making a big pcb to mount all the leds and circuits to instead? or too expensive because of the size?
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The way the tail lights are made there's dividers between each compartment so it would be basically impossible. I already had to grind down the plastic on the housing (the part closer to the car) about 3/4" to allow the PCBs to fit. It's actually a ton of work beyond just creating the PCBs. Once I learned how to wire/mount the LEDs, resistors, etc. to the PCB, those are fairly easy, just time consuming. The wiring, modifying the housings, etc. is also a huge pain. The whole project is probably about 70 hours of work, although if I knew what I was doing from the get-go it'd probably be more like 40.
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