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as of right now, i have bout $35 and 6 hours in this light. its still cheaper than getting a new regular headlight from carquest. i'm looking forward to putting power to it compared to a regular sealed beam.

Progress, finally. i got to work on the light tonight. i finished up the second to last row, and with the number of comments concerned about overheating, i only put two strings of 7 in the last ring on the right and left sides. Then i went through and tied all the negatives together with brown...

it is 25.4 at idle, it gets up to about 27 at 54mph, which is why i figured for 28v when putting the led string together. i went ahead and uploaded pics to the site, I had tried using [img] code, but the bboard only put up links panshark, i could advertise it in winter to keep your blinker...

yeah, regular 20ma. max voltage 3.6, nominal 3.4, running a string of 7 behind a 180 Ohm resistor. to give me about 28 volts to play with. Hopefully that helps with the heat seeing as how the truck consistently runs at 25.4v final count in the lamp will be 170 5mm LEDs at a theoretical 55,000...

didn't know if this was the best place to start this or not, Mods can move it if needed. getting tired of changing headlights in the m-818, and didn't want to spend $$$ on production LED headlights so i decided to try making my own. First step was cutting the back off one of the burnt out...