TRX4 Defender LED backplates by agates1967

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

I reverse engineered the stock light backplates that have the stickers for lights. These replace those black plates, but you supply LEDs to fill the holes. I used a cluster of 7 white 3mm LEDs for the headlights, a single white 5mm led for the fog/high beam upper socket, and a single yellow 5mm led for the turn/hazard in the front. I put an image of how I soldered the front LEDs in there, I made all of the ground (-) leads common. The (+) in the cluster were soldered together so one wire powers the cluster. The other corner marker LEDs have their own (+) wire connections.
The front buckets are mirrors of each other so you would mirror the one headlight file in your slicer to get the opposite side.
The rears are different. On the side with the reverse light I made a cluster of 4 white 3mm LEDs. On the rear fog light side there is one 5mm red LED. The tail and ambers are 3mm red and yellow LEDs.
The electronics enclosure I sort of custom made to fit my circuit boards, I can upload if anyone is interested. I coded 6 modes into the module, and you select the modes by pressing on the left tail light. I mounted a button switch between the tail light and the fender well. This has proven to work well. I programmed a sleep mode as well since the power lead is always on when the battery is connected, but for an extra cutoff I mounted a JST jumper with a power switch in line so the whole thing can be powered down with the body on. I can also upload my code for the Arduino if anyone wants that.