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On the way home from a all ford meeting today, I took some poser shots of the Escort..

 

Yeahhh she's crazy Richard.  I love it.  

She looks like a dragster slipper with these tires. Congrats  

I like to have lights on my vehicles.
So a few weeks ago I ordered these 3 and 5mm warm white leds on ebay.


So today I made my own light kit using those leds above together with 150ohm resistors on each led.
Most of my receivers are max 6v, so that is the reson I use 150ohm resistors.
LAN cable was used for wires.
Still have the spotlights to do..
Underbody is a wire mess so I will spare you pictures of that.

I used a spare pack for mine not nice but efficient. I haven't more 4 cells pack . I used a 6 cells one. 

stingray-63 wrote:

I used a spare pack for mine not nice but efficient. I haven't more 4 cells pack . I used a 6 cells one. 

A 4 pack is what I'm using to test the lights 


Today I finished the spotlights.
I'm very pleased how it came out. I did search a bit for the warm white with the most MCD (brightness). I can't find the spec now, but these are approx 8000mcd, usually the normal shop ones are around 300-800mcd which is like a candle light in a big tunnel....


Due lack of space round the bumper I did like this. Connected the positive together and a single wire for the negative. The resistors were added after the wires were fed through the body.
Still have to paint the bare wire to hide it a bit.


Wires are tested with a 4 pack receiver battery


I will simply plug these wires into the receiver.
Left the spotlights as seperate items so I can run them on ch3 so I can switch them on and off while driving.
Just now there is no radio gear on this chassis
I tried to keep the wires as uncluttered as possible.

 

Wahoo 
. Very nice Richard.  Cleaner than my spaghettis wiring. Congrats.  Leds end the project perfectly. I love it

Nice work Richard, that looks so good!!!
Great job.

Very realistic, well done Richard.