[DIY] Poor man's light buckets - DIY light buckets for the drift car body

Poor man's light buckets - DIY light buckets for the drift car body

Needed some lights for the night drift meet... had been sourcing around for suitable materials for some easy DIY light buckets for the LEDs to light up the drift car during the night drift meets.

And came across this in the fridge... :D
So, I thought... quickly finished up the grapes and I will have light buckets! :D




Thinking of how to cut....



and trimmed out the light buckets...



Hot glued the light buckets onto the body shell...
I think I would need some training on how to use hot glue! :D

Never fail to be messy every time when using hot glue...
Any tips to share? :D

 


Drilled 3mm and 5mm holes for the LEDs, installed the light unit and tidied up the cables..

That's it, a quick and simple Poor man's DIY light buckets.... :)

 

Thanks for looking!
Keep RC-ing!

[BUILD] DIY Poor man's Wireless light unit - Light up the flat bed semi trailer

Need some lights for the semi trailer....

So... finally manage to find time to fix it up....



Difficulty Level: 0 (easy! anyone can do it!) 

Items used
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1. Light kit with signal lamps - i used Hobbyking ones, but any light kit will work...
2. Extra receiver for on/ off trailer lights control as well as signal lamps, brake lamps, reverse lamps to work
3. Receiver controlled BEC - from HobbyKing, allows control of a switched power output via a spare channel
4. extra bits of wires...
5. Blu-tack - i used black ones.... i used it to hold the light buckets in position... i don't like permanent fixtures! 
6. Light buckets / LED holders / etc - for the reverse lights... i used the spare ones from Axial kits...
7. switch - to switch off the receiver when not in use as i tapped the supply from the same AA batteries on the trailer


How it works?
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Simple, channel 1 and 2 of the additional receiver is input to the light unit for the signal lamps, reverse lamps and brake lamps functions....

Receiver controlled BEC is to supply the input voltage to the light unit, so that when the trailer is not in use, we can switch it off using a spare channel on the radio.... 

That's it... 



Some photos of the build....


The light kit from HobbyKing

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Receiver controlled BEC

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Installed the LED and mocked up the light buckets from Axial kits...
but  didn't use these light buckets in the end... used the round ones instead... 

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DIY-ed a bracket to hold the wires in place....
simply cut up a piece of styrene and drilled 2 holes for the bolts....

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works well... simple... 

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zip-tied the cables, taped the light unit, bec, receiver to the underside of the trailer....
and taped the power switch for the receiver to the side of the ladder frame....

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these won't be really visible unless you go take a shot of the trailer from below... 

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the back view.... used these axial light buckets instead...

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done!

will try to do up a video of the light kit in action... 

thanks for looking!