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What 13K$ In LED Tail Lights Looks Like.

Westech

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This is what 13K$ in tail lights looks like.
I had 2 laying around my work area that had defective Cams in them.
I had to put them to good use.
This is my "truck" that I get around in. Not too bad... I cranked the injection pump and
she can do 35 KPH now.
 

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So you traveled 6800 (+/-) miles to change a couple of light bulbs? Nice!
 

Recovry4x4

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Did you replace the defective cams with some type of race cam? Roller maybe? My lights are the camless version.
 

Westech

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Kenny that is a Check 6 taillight. They have cameras in them. I cant get in to details on what kind or how they work. You will see that the covers are closed in the picture.
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O and you FREAK shows who canned my "westy is going to the Stan" post because of opsec, dont get in a bind. you have NO IDEA how it works. It should have never been canned. so dont freak out on this. I am here you are not!
 

crazywelder72

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Kenny that is a Check 6 taillight. They have cameras in them. I cant get in to details on what kind or how they work. You will see that the covers are closed in the picture.
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O and you FREAK shows who canned my "westy is going to the Stan" post because of opsec, dont get in a bind. you have NO IDEA how it works. It should have never been canned. so dont freak out on this. I am here you are not!
I'm guessing thermal imaging and the covers are protecting the germanium lens. My geek factor is in over drive now. Time to research.
 

3dAngus

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China for $16??? They probably work better than Westechs too, and he paid $13,000.00 for his. I'm gonna go there now and buy two sets, and put one set on the front. That way, I can see where I'm going.
 

nf6x

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I found references to those Check 6 lights recently when I was looking around for ideas for a reverse gear camera for my M923. I eventually settled on a commercial-grade reverse camera system which I will install under the bed somewhere (hopefully providing a view of the pintle to make hitching a trailer easier), but I considered mounting a camera inside a tail light housing after seeing the Check 6 lights. If good housings from dead Check 6 systems are available, they might make nice housings for home-made reverse gear camera systems on surplus MVs.

I also found another picture of the Check 6 lights with a slightly different housing design. Instead of the rotating metal cover plate, the camera lens was covered with an ordinary flip-up rifle scope cover. It had what appeared to be ordinary round LEDs in place of the cats-eye blackout lights. Maybe that one was an earlier prototype before they finalized their plastics?

Here are two pictures that I found online in BAE literature.
 

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crazywelder72

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sure... but i'll probally get a infraction for it.. anyhow... i got a camera like this. they are designed to mount across the top of a lic plate. i mounted mine on the inside of my back bumper using some standoffs i made so just the camera isnt sticking to far out. then I have a 7" LCD monitor in my cab. Both i have running of a 24vlt to 12vlt converter that has a max output of 20amps. Far more than i need.
 

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