donoman

Headlights are my cool new addition. I usually play with my car at night time and practice drifting. These lights add a special look, and *kinda* light up my dark road but not enough to really be useful. In any case, this hobby is about replication, and I think they look pretty cool. What do you think?

If you kids are interested, I can show you how I did it using a diagram and maybe some pictures. It's pretty easy, the hardest part was placing the headlights in the body correctly.

Donovan

donoman

btw the total cost was about 6$.

budweiser505

they look pretty cool for that price!
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EvaderST00

im no kid bu tlets the the pics and a how too.

fantomracer

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jah man lets see how ya did it...i think i can afford 6 bux for headlights

iliketobreakthings

i have some LED lights liying around... you just have to drill 2 holes in the front of the chasis so the LED's will fit through then run them to a 9 volt or run it off of your car battery

BodyTuner

Do you know how to make headlights turn on/off on your radio controler.That would be cool![8D]

Jocke88

Get a third channel and an extra servo with a switch system attached. In one poition the switch will be open ( incomplete circuit) and the lights are off and vice versa. Shouldnt be too hard. Could even make brake lights when you apply the brakes if it tickles your fancy

BodyTuner

I am going to buy rc this week and I will order 2 chanal radio.What do I get with more chanals?

Jocke88

If you want a remote head light option you need to have a 3 channel radio to operate the third servo ( for the lights) it seems a bit silly because of all the extra weight, it would be pretty unique. Its up to you my friend[8D]

BodyTuner

I dont need speed.If it will be slower i will put in a stronger engine!
So I need 3 channel radio.Tnx[8D]

donoman

Hi guys, I'm pretty new to RC but here's my take on things:

If you simply hook up and LED to 9V you won't have an LED for a long time. An easy fix is to use a dropping resistor soldered onto one end of the LED. For 9V you would use about 400Ohms and for 6V you'd use 220Ohms. A note for people who have never done this before, LED's only work with the positive voltage on the cathode. To find out which one is the cathode, look at the datasheet or the packaging that your LED came with. If you just have it laying around, just test it quickly before you solder.

Since I only have a 2 channel receiver, I spliced into my ESC wires. I tapped the red (power) and black (ground) connections and simply ran the tap up to the front of the car. Then I made 2 LED assemblies with the 220 Ohm resistors in series (in-line). Since the servo channel is powered by 6V you can use 220 with precision. Then, make sure you cover all the leads because you don't want to be shorting out the ESC and blowing out your speed controller or other bad things can happen.

I'm not sure than using a 3rd channel will really help light up brake lights or headlights. The power on the 3rd channel is always on, if I understand correctly. So there will not be a way to shut off the lights via the controller. One thing you might want to do is build a pulse-to-DC converter for the lights. Personally I think it's not worth the effort. An easier (but messier way) would be to tap into your ESC and simply run those brake lights out of it.

Oh yeah, then I just hot glue'd some junk that I had laying around the house to my bumper at the correct height. Turns out for my Stratus body, the LED's had to be held at the top. I found the best solution was a zip-tie followed by smothering of hot glue. If i just used the hot glue it wasn't strong enough, and if I just used the zip tie, it wasn't stable enough You can see the resistor in the pictures.
Please let me know if I can help anymore...

BodyTuner

2 donoman:I will contact U for more when my car arrives!TNX

donoman

no problem dude! glad to help!

iliketobreakthings

heres a few links for some headlight ideas...

[link]http://www.rcxotic.com/contentid-13.html[/link]

[link]http://www.rcneon.com/[/link]

donoman

hey that's pretty cool to power everything off an extra battery! i wonder if the added weight of the battery makes a difference. That was my main concern with the headlights and that's why i used servo power for them. I guess I should put some tail lights up in there too. That was my plan, at least

donoman

By the way, the reason mine cost that much is because I used white and blue LED's. The white ones are expensive. If you can just use BLUE LED's you can get them for under 2$ a piece at the Radio Shack and you can cut your costs a lot. Red LED's are dirt cheap, probably 10c a piece, so if you want tail lights it's not that much more!

Tigger N. Bennie

I have lights on a few of my R/Cs. Here is one example.

Evo_7

BUY THE HEADLIGHTS FROM RCNEON.COM !

they have 6 bulbs, a set of white headlights, and a coloured fog light set, u choose the colour, AND the best bit, they have rear bake lights that show dim at normal, then u push the switch which u attatch to the brake servo and they go full beam, it lookss really good, i have a set of them.

Nitro Rustler Racer

i made lights on my electric humer. using cristmas lights

donoman

Christmas lights --- now there's a resourceful idea!!!

Evo_7 --- RCneon lights are cool but they cost too much. For that amount of money I could almost buy a new radio Plus don't u like making things yourself?

iliketobreakthings

that wouldnt happen to be a Nikko Hummer.... i had one before i got my XXX-T and it was lotsa fun... especially when i dove it off the roof

elec_4x4

im going to have a go at masking off the headlights on my lotus elise for LED headlights and i thought i might make a sheild behind them out of metal from an ali coke can so you cant see the lights from every angle through the wheel arches/windows etc

jkdv8

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RC Neon.

Nitro Rustler Racer

yup its the one i just to the bumper of to repaint the little fog lamps. i dunt drive of roofs but its sitting in my garage from a nice day of driving it in mud after it rainined