Well guys I'm bored today and need to go to radio shack to pick up a diode for an older mower I helping on. Well working there for 5 years has it's perks ( discount ) and while digging through the drawers looking for a diode I stumble upon some LED's. Now didn't pay alot of attention just got them, a few resistors and board to solder it all on.

The LED's I grab are bright looking right in them. Have a very narrow viewing angle. But they didn't flicker with low voltage like I have had gauges do if the voltage is reduced. So searched on Ebay and found so wide angle LED's with similar specs.

Got some other pieces ordered as well as the LED's. Going to go to the scrap yard up the road tomorrow before work and try to pic up some used tails cheap to play around with. Out maybe 30 bucks at the moment.

Will defiantly post up some pics once I see what happens. For the money in them the worst is they won't work. Seen multiple times of promises and such with LED tails on other sites but nothing yet to come through.

Any thoughts guys or ideas?

I'm thinking if I keep them in the original red housing they should diffuse the light well with white bulbs behind them. Also I'm going to try and make them use the 3157 plug so its easy to switch back to normal bulb housing if need be.

And if it wont work as I want it too. Any other cool ideas to make out of LED's. In the mood here lately to make some stuff and being cold I can mess with these inside.