Did some ‘endurance’ testing on the completed running light while I assembled the remaining LED boards. I set up the light on the Avalanche and left it running for about an hour and a half to see how hot it’d get. The laser-thermometer we have registered about 115-125* F\u00a0on the hottest parts of the board, with the dome getting up to about 100* F. While this definitely qualifies as ‘warm’, considering I could still briefly touch the surfaces and not get burned, this is a definite improvement over standard bulbs like most of our other cars have.<\/p>\n
The remaining boards went together easily enough, though I did use a pencil to trace the planned solder \/ wire routes on the brake \/ tail lights, as I was rotating a few of the LED’s to accommodate a easier pathway. I’ll hopefully start soldering the remaining boards tomorrow night,\u00a0and will be using a high-temp silicone I grabbed from work to seal in the solder and wiring once all the boards have tested ok.<\/p>\n
To resolve the visibility issue with the running lights and front signals, I’ve got three relays on order that I will wire in such a way that turning on the headlights turns off both running lights, but turning on a signal turns off just that running light. It was a pretty simple yet ingenious layout our electrical engineer at work helped me figure out.<\/p>\n\n\t\t