Using 5mm El Wire as Angel Eyes??? No baking required???
05-05-2006, 11:01 AM
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Using 5mm El Wire as Angel Eyes??? No baking required???
I was thinking of doing angel eyes for my tc but $150 was steep and baking headlights scare me so i was looking for a cheaper safer solution. Ive seen alot of LED AE DIYs but they all seem ugly and have an uneven glow...
The CCFL Angel Eyes that I see everyone using is nothing more than a regular 12" CCFL that you can get for 4.99 at a computer store thats been bent into a circle... The so called ballast is nothing more that a regular Cathode Inverter... wow they sure charge alot for bending a glass tube...
I was about to give up becuase i was not about to risk damaging my head lights and spending 160 for a couple of round computer CCFL til i found a Tiburon forum where a guy used EL WIRE to make his angel eyes and it hit me
El WIRE is super flexible!!!
in the DIY Angel eyes the guy ran the wires through an opening under the round rubber piece to plug it into the inverter
If this opening is large enough can't I just bend the EL wire and feed it into the housing and using some long tweezers and other tools to perfectly position them into place??? I mean i can just use a long bent rod and stick it through the 9006 bulb opening, applying glue and other stuff like that might be hard but id rather spend that time than risk baking my headlights
i don;t know how bright elwire are but I was thinkign of using 5mm High Bright el wires which i heard are VERY bright... and best of all it;s pretty cheap like $20 for 5 foot i think
if someone can tell me if there are any openings on the headlights i can feed 5mm wires into, i'll seriously consider doing it one of these weekends
here is the final pic of the tiburon guy with the elwire angel eyes
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The CCFL Angel Eyes that I see everyone using is nothing more than a regular 12" CCFL that you can get for 4.99 at a computer store thats been bent into a circle... The so called ballast is nothing more that a regular Cathode Inverter... wow they sure charge alot for bending a glass tube...
I was about to give up becuase i was not about to risk damaging my head lights and spending 160 for a couple of round computer CCFL til i found a Tiburon forum where a guy used EL WIRE to make his angel eyes and it hit me
El WIRE is super flexible!!!
in the DIY Angel eyes the guy ran the wires through an opening under the round rubber piece to plug it into the inverter
If this opening is large enough can't I just bend the EL wire and feed it into the housing and using some long tweezers and other tools to perfectly position them into place??? I mean i can just use a long bent rod and stick it through the 9006 bulb opening, applying glue and other stuff like that might be hard but id rather spend that time than risk baking my headlights
i don;t know how bright elwire are but I was thinkign of using 5mm High Bright el wires which i heard are VERY bright... and best of all it;s pretty cheap like $20 for 5 foot i think
if someone can tell me if there are any openings on the headlights i can feed 5mm wires into, i'll seriously consider doing it one of these weekends
here is the final pic of the tiburon guy with the elwire angel eyes
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05-05-2006, 12:12 PM
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wow that looks great. i have the same question as ack on that one. also since you are allowing a little wire to go under the rubber right there, i would assume it isnt a perfect seal, and moisture could still get in, so would you fit that area with caulk?
keep us updated on this if you do do it
keep us updated on this if you do do it
05-05-2006, 01:48 PM
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baking the lights is really a lot easier to do than your making it out to be. I've baked my lights twice already and have zero condensation. if you make one wrong move with this type of install, your little stock/rod thingy you're using is going to go straight through the headlight reflector. i don't particuarly feel like spending 180 bucks for a new headlight.
05-05-2006, 05:32 PM
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baking the lights is really a lot easier to do than your making it out to be. I've baked my lights twice already and have zero condensation. if you make one wrong move with this type of install, your little stock/rod thingy you're using is going to go straight through the headlight reflector. i don't particuarly feel like spending 180 bucks for a new headlight.
05-05-2006, 05:49 PM
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