Minggu, 19 Agustus 2007

How To Use LED As Neon For 1/24 Model Kits Cars

This is the picture of LED lamp which is usually used by me.

This LED has length of 2 mm and width of 1 mm. It’s very small. You can find it at Accessories Hand Phone Stores. It's only cost you about IDR 1000/pc. It's available in blue, purple, green, white, and super white.

Before start creating this lamp, we must prepare a few things. They are multi tester 360TR, hand drill, soldering iron (25 Watt), soldering timah, wires, glue gun, small straw, watch battery, and plastic sheet. Just see the picture below. Use resistance test on multitester.

The first thing to do is find the positive and negative sign for the lamp by using multi tester. Put the red pin on the lamp’s cooper and black pin on the other side. If the lamp shines, so sign it and solder it with red wire for red pin and black wire for black pin. If it's not shine, then cross it. See above picture for more information.

Count and made the lamp as many as you want. Then, draft the position of your lamp in your car's chassis. I usually use 8 LED for neon and 2 LED for head lamp. For interior, you can make it as you wish according to your type of modification and trunk layout. This is the example of draft on my car chassis.


After you know the position, drill the area using had drill and 2.5 mm drill. Drill 2 small hole for both wire and glue all the lamp to the chassis using the melted glue. All the lamp are connected parallel each other to the battery.

After make the connection, try to check with the battery whether the black wire to (+) or (-) and red wire too. After that, make the battery house using plastic sheet and connect it to the on/off button.



After finish, cover all with paint or sticker on the inside and cover with small straw to make it like tube. The more you do it, the more perfect you make it. Experience is important. Good Luck Trying




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