Custom Zoodad
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Custom Zoodad
Another ZOODAD. Made a template from a picture off the internet. Cut it out of paper tranfered it to the truck using a french tip manacure pen from my wife. didnt have a silver sharpie. so after tracing that out i used a dremel tool and cut out all the material on the inside of the M. Unlike normal zoodad's you have a piece of materail that you can take out all the material turned to dust and there for cleanup was a little bit messy. after cutting the M i changed bits to do a little more details with a smaller pointed bit. when finished i pullend the intake apart and cleaned the inside before the filter, managed to get a few pictures of the turbo too. have further plans to this mod. to include LED"s theme for the truck will be similar to Monster Energy. Sorry Having troubles trying to ad pics to this POST if anyone can help please do. otherwise Pics are in my gallery
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ZOODAD and turbo pics
Raining outside so this was my setup.
Outline of the M from Monster Energy
Template Traced out on the Support
Used the dremel to start work
Little Farther
finished product
Compressor Wheels Pics
( orange color looked like copper anyone know why???)
yes CCV Re-Route not done anyone have a parts list and how to PM it to me please
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In general,
Resistor Value (in ohms) = (14.5 - LED voltage drop)/(LED operating current)
LEDs are polarized so they'll only light up when connected correctly. You can attach one leg of the resistor to either side of the LED and then wire up the power and ground and you're done.
If you can post up the LED info (part number, etc) I can help you figure it up if you'd like.
That will look really cool lit up from behind. Good luck!
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I wonder the same thing...mine has one fin like that as well.
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Wow...that Turbo inlet looks pretty banged up...what happened there? Yes, you are indeed needing to perform a CCV filter setup. I bought a CCV6000 Parker Hanefin/Racor off ebay cheap...something like $80, mounted it to the Driver side frame and ran 1" hoses from and back to the CCV/Turbo inlet. No more nasty dirty air for my intake, Turbo, egr system.
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Say the forward voltage of your led is 3.0V and the forward current is 20mA then you would have:
Resistor = (14.5 - 3.0)/0.020 = 575 ohms. You might not be able to find the exact value you come up with at radio shack so just go to the next closest higher value. Or you could buy them online from somewhere like Digikey who offers 1% resistors and you can get really close to any value.
Also, if you happened to buy LEDs that are already made for automotive applications, they probably already have the resistor in them.
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ya the LED's are just the led with the two prongs. positive being the longer of the two figured that out. Green Led's are a 2.1 vdc and a 25mA 6.3 mcd (mili candescent?????) i have seen the equation before but ya thanks helps. so thinking this i should need (14.5-2.1)/ .025 = 496 ohm resistor. now do i get two and attach each resistor to the positive side of the LED? or just one and run them in series???
turbo i found out that the Copper looking is just a tool used to indicate a reference point. from a friend with a cobalt ss he said one of his had red paint and he was told it was a reference point for like balancing??? as much as i know. working on LED's today will get back to yall
turbo i found out that the Copper looking is just a tool used to indicate a reference point. from a friend with a cobalt ss he said one of his had red paint and he was told it was a reference point for like balancing??? as much as i know. working on LED's today will get back to yall
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ya the LED's are just the led with the two prongs. positive being the longer of the two figured that out. Green Led's are a 2.1 vdc and a 25mA 6.3 mcd (mili candescent?????) i have seen the equation before but ya thanks helps. so thinking this i should need (14.5-2.1)/ .025 = 496 ohm resistor. now do i get two and attach each resistor to the positive side of the LED? or just one and run them in series???
turbo i found out that the Copper looking is just a tool used to indicate a reference point. from a friend with a cobalt ss he said one of his had red paint and he was told it was a reference point for like balancing??? as much as i know. working on LED's today will get back to yall
turbo i found out that the Copper looking is just a tool used to indicate a reference point. from a friend with a cobalt ss he said one of his had red paint and he was told it was a reference point for like balancing??? as much as i know. working on LED's today will get back to yall
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1 candella = 1,000 mcd
1 lumen divided by 12.57 = 1 candella
R = (vs-vL)/ I
R = resistance
vs = voltage supply
I - led current rating
example; (9-2)/.02a = R
(9-2)/.02 = 350 ohms
And yes put the resistor between the positive and the led
1 lumen divided by 12.57 = 1 candella
R = (vs-vL)/ I
R = resistance
vs = voltage supply
I - led current rating
example; (9-2)/.02a = R
(9-2)/.02 = 350 ohms
And yes put the resistor between the positive and the led
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ok so tapped into the driver's side amber side light for power and am using the existing ground near the back of the headlight. had to pull the headlight to get to those amber lights didnt know that. so i have power have a ground, drilled holes for the two led's, now going to solder the resistors to the positive side cover them in shrink wrap then connet them in parallel to the power and ground them in parallel, question i could only get 1K ohm resistors would it be better to run one resistor in series than running two resistors in parallel when i only need 496 ohm per led? or is that cutting it