Designed and build by myself for Andy (phutumsch)

 

300zx rear light panel sound to light controller with brake repeater

 

This has various modes:

 

Manual colour select. Blue Red Magenta Green Cyan Yellow White plus one custom programmable colour

 

True sound to light (red = bass, green = mid, blue = treble) - this is my personal favourite

 

Pulse mode - pulses from darkest colour (blue) through to lightest colour (white) on bass beats in this order : blue red magenta green cyan yellow white

 

Step mode - steps colours in sequence on each bass beat, or you can auto step without music and set speed from mega fast to about one step every two seconds. Steps in same sequence as above

 

Also has an overide mode for Brake reapeater (when you hit the brakes you get super bright red regardless of what it was doing before and after)

 

All are demonstrated in this short video

 

I've tried to video this a few times but the sound and light always go out of sync- don't know why but here you go this is the best I can show it - but in reality it keeps *perfect* time to the music :-)

 

The video will take about 30 more mins to upload (as of now 11:35pm) so I'm off to hit the sheets..... but it's something for you insomniacs to wait for lol

 

 

Andy you will have it by the end of the week ready to fit - can't wait to see it in action - enjoy!!!

 

 

Rich

Nice work Dicky, i wonder whats next on the horizon lol

funky!!!

I need one of those in my life.

Wow very clever Dicky :thumbup:

not for me, but very cool and would be great for a show car.

 

PS I would minimise your websites next time :)

Lol yeah it looks good - the sound to light is meant for show car TBH, and for incurable car illumination addicts lol

 

The hardest part of this was to get a proper even light on the rear panel, without hot spots or shadow areas and with no leds actually showing

 

I also Noticed

 

1. The sound is a lot more in sync on the upladed video than the one of my phone and

2. Well spotted I incriminated myself nicely on the brief pc screenshot where I had been wandering around adult sites looking at the pictures lol

 

You know how it is though...... When you've seen one woman naked, you want to see them all! :tongue_smilie:

Lol yeah it looks good - the sound to light is meant for show car TBH, and for incurable car illumination addicts lol

 

EHHH !!

 

Haha great work Rich.......what I expected from you really though :thumbup1:.

 

His remit to have green illumination of the 300ZX and then to switch to red when you brake, the guy as gone way beyond this and I couldn't be more chuffed and appreciate the hours and hours he has put into this :cool3:.

 

Just need to dig out my s club 7 greatest hits now ready for JAE :whistling:.

Edited March 4, 201312 yr by phutumsch
spelling mistaek !!

S Club 7!!!! omg what have I done???

 

Just to be clear there will only ever be one of these boards. Mostly I 'invented it in real-time mode' which basically means I 'made it up as a went along' so there are no circuit diagrams other than a few scribblings of the basic design and a rough block diagram of the various functions

 

Also it takes way too long to build one of these unless you were to design a custom PCB which would also take a way too long

 

It started off really as going to be green LED backlit with Red Brakelight repeater - but then I used some LED strips and I only had RGB ones... so it seemed a shame to use only the green so I added the cuircuitry to use a rotary switch to select each of seven colours, plus brightness control and the circuit to override the switch setting and set the LED strip to full brightness red plus some high power LEDs to boost the red light level as well when you hit the brakes.

 

Problem was I needed 8 switch settings (seven colours plus 'off') and I could only get a 12 way switch... so it seems a shame to have four more unused positions on the switch. So I added an 8th mode where by you could preset the brightness of Red Green and Blue, and create your own custom colour. That was the 9th switch position

 

Then I thought hmm this would look good going in time with music so I added the 10th switch position - sound to light

 

But I still had 2 positions on the switch, and I had run out of Veroboard space, so I built the piggyback board with two more sound to light options - onle pulses the colours per beat (dark to light depending on the strength of the beat) and the other steps the colours once per beat

 

I'll now sandwich the boards between two pieces of perspex and drill holes for access to the adjustments. They alter for sensitivity, beat detections, brightness etc. I also need to build the fog/reverse lights (I''ve already done then for one side but not fitted them for the demo video)

 

The whole panel is controlled by one 12 way rotary switch and one push button switch

 

Connections will be very simple

power (from sidelights)

chassis (ground)

brake light +ve

fog light +ve

reverse light +ve

phono lead from stereo

 

I was going to build a second one for myself.... and I will.... but it won't be like this one. Rather than purely analog circuitry I'm going to have a play around with building a microprocessor controlled panel and see what I can do with that instread.

 

Rich

Oh also to add - during construction, one transistor and one IC chip 'cease to perform within the manufacturers tolerance'... which is the best way I can think to say I 'blew them up!!' :w00t:

mate that is brilliant!

 

If your into the whole show car thing, having an entire boot install tripping in like that would be smiled upon i'm sure :)

That is rather impressive I have to say! Great work :)

Now that is good Rich... not for me but very good. Be just up Andy,s street that with all the whistles and bells:cool3:

Also it might not be obvious to everyone but this kind and skillful work from Rich does not go inside the panel, way way too big/thick, the reverse light panel needs opening up at the rear and some work doing on/around the 300ZX lettering for this to illuminate through, all stock panels will require this work, the panel in his video is mine and was prepared for a light mod I did last year :cool3:.

Also it might not be obvious to everyone but this kind and skillful work from Rich does not go inside the panel, way way too big/thick, the reverse light panel needs opening up at the rear and some work doing on/around the 300ZX lettering for this to illuminate through, all stock panels will require this work, the panel in his video is mine and was prepared for a light mod I did last year :cool3:.

 

Ahhh ok thats cleared up my puzzling look thinking "wheres all the electwizzdry fit":1eye:

Ahhh ok thats cleared up my puzzling look thinking "wheres all the electwizzdry fit":1eye:

 

You've invented a new word Bri.

 

I will presume at 2.54 mins Rich that is the brake light kicking in :cool3:.

Yeah that was the brake light - I added buttons to the controller so you can test brake fog and reverse lights without connecting it to the car. As I had not fitted the fog/reverse light holders when i did hte demo video you see some brake light comming through there but you won't once it is all fitted

 

Seeing as I added test buttons all you need is a 12V supply and a phono lead to a sound source to test the whole panel

 

I am hoping the controller will fit behind the plastic trim panel on the centre rear of the boot, once you have adjusted everything to your stereo system and set your own custom colour then you only need the one knob to control everything

 

Rich

Very good work mate! Hopefully I'll get to see it at jae this year.

If your into the whole show car thing, having an entire boot install tripping in like that would be smiled upon i'm sure :)

 

You should see The Beast and Artztogo's motors at JAE every Sept, put mine and everyone else's Z to shame :thumbup1:.

 

Very good work mate! Hopefully I'll get to see it at jae this year.

 

You shall bud cos I'll be there :cool3:.

 

you only need the one knob to control everything

 

There's no need for that :mad2:.

 

Andy you will have it by the end of the week ready to fit - can't wait to see it in action - enjoy!!!

Rich

 

Good.....it's my birthday Friday :winkiss:.

 

Rich as made this up for me but I have also done jobs to try and balance things up where I could for him and I will be preparing his reverse light panel also when the time comes.

Edited March 4, 201312 yr by phutumsch

Great thread Dicky and nice to see all this info and pics put on the fourm so for that have some rep mate:thumbup1:

You should see The Beast and Artztogo's motors at JAE every Sept, put mine and everyone else's Z to shame :thumbup1:.

 

 

Hmm illuminated boot installs..... I have a few ideas about that :wink:

 

 

 

Good.....it's my birthday Friday :winkiss:.

 

Then you have a birthday pressy on the way for Friday!!

 

 

Rich as made this up for me but I have also done jobs to try and balance things up where I could for him and I will be preparing his reverse light panel also when the time comes.

 

Yep and I have been very happy with the goodies that have been coming my way too. Collaboration produces some very nice results IMHO

Just about completed now... and it's no longer a bare circuit board

 

Final bench test went fine tonight :cool3:

Look......now you're just showing off :smartass: :smartass:.

maybe....lol

Great bit of work there, thanks for sharing with us.

This arrived at mine today, Rich rushed it out so it would arrive on my birthday, thanks again bud.

 

This is truly a great piece of kit and only half sold on this thread, also it incorporates very bright reverse and fog lights, you can all count on me to show this off once I've fitted it to the car.

 

I have pulled a feed off it and this will power up more RGB lights at the rear of my car and all will work in unison, it will be extremely impressive when all is done and unique :cool3:.