Off Road Pod Lights

cults3d

The idea here is to develop a series of led rock crawling lights and led pod lights for use on my jeep on various off-road adventures. Attached is my pod light prototype. I want to avoid any thermal management in ABS parts so that means no led chips or surface mounted diodes. I also don't want to be the d-bag on the trail that blinds everyone else with their obnoxiously bright led light bar so I settled on good old-fashioned 3volt LEDs. They are super cheap and easy to wire up. That makes the brass screws the most expensive part of the build and the outcome is a subtle pod light for rear lighting that produces almost no heat and has an electrical load that could almost never run down your battery while camping or jeeping around in the hills. You will, however, not be able to deliberately be an ass to the drivers around you (which I think could be the actual intended purpose of an led light bar). This light uses only about 24 diodes so you will only be producing about 60 lumens per pair if you estimate 1.25 lumens/diode and that is just fine for my purposes.