So I got around to taking a stab at soldering one of the red LED’s to the board last night. Soldering is just as difficult as I remember it being, I really need to take that TechShop class on it, or just get more practice. I got the board set up on my ‘vette and rested the wires on the battery terminals and observed the LED’s for a bit.<\/p>\n
I have to say, I’m going to have to reconsider how many LED’s I’m going to use, because holy moly that one LED was bright<\/em>! I was actually seeing spots in my vision if I looked at it for too long! As you can see in the photos below, I placed the tail light lens over the LED and it quite efficiently lit the whole housing. I may switch from 15+ LED’s for just the brake light down to a more sensible number like… 5? I really don’t want to be driving the car, hit the brakes, get hit, and when they’re asked why they hit me have the response be “Because I couldn’t see!”<\/p>\n Over the weekend I plan on doing a test soldering \/ lighting of\u00a0single orange and white LEDs to the board to take a look at them as well, I’ll upload picts if I get a chance to do this.<\/p>\n\n\t\t