integra-modder

Anyone know any good how to's on making your own strobe lights? I was looking at the radio shack catalog and the strobe tube and trigger coil add up to 4.48, + 10 bucks max for the other crap is pretty cheap for a DIY project and you get to learn stuff while you're at it.

If you know of any good tutorials, please post a link.

integra-modder

come on...someone's got to know something about electronics...

integra-modder

Anyone know electronics really well?

ratherbewalking

check ebay for that crap. save some cash. and time(if you really want strobes that bad)

iam7head

yeah..ebay...those sell about 10bucks..with switches and wires

NrG

if you're trying to make your headlights strobe like a cop headlights, go find the kit, its alot easier.

brad.

hahaha headlight strobes, now thats funny

Frosty_spl

a shotgun to your face while driving will give you that flash effect youre looking for.

integra-modder

I want to build the thing if possible...buying something like that is too easy and isnt custom enough for what im looking for.

slowman

iTrader: (3)

change your name to integra-stunna after you find out how

integra-modder

Go blow yourself you *****....

I didnt ask for opinions from dumb ***** likes yourselves.

slowman

iTrader: (3)

it's cool if you want to do it, i just didnt know you're making it be a pace car or police car. but it's cool. just do what you want. just my view on it.

integra-modder

It looks nice, a few friends from DTM power from DC have it on their M3's.

If anyone knows, please IM me.

NrG

more like: it looks rice haha
what ever chaps your ***.

brad.

strobes have been out for years...honestly, dumb idiot wannabes at the races use them to notify people that they are parked

Frosty_spl

*ATTENTION EVERYONE= my integra is parked right HERE, please everyone gawk at the ricey strobes*

SiK AcC0rD

tell u now, that it aint ez to make....mainly engineerers know how to make that stuff...it has charges/resistors and ****...this setup looks CRUCIAL, i've studied some of this..and it has more than what i've learned in engineerin school..

SiK AcC0rD

u're better off buyin some instead. case closed.

integra-modder

im majoring in mechanical engineering....so might as well get some background in electrical....

and thats exactly what i plan on doing, drive around with strobes on all day long and use them to notify people that im parked..... dumbfucks

iam7head

why you want to spend all that time trying to ghetto rag it and
not spend the same of less money on ebay?
what are you going to say? "I built my light strobe?"
not flaming you but does the time spend on it
justisfy the end/final product?

iam7head

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=344478

here's something better than light strobe imo.

integra-modder

Ive got the stuff for the angel eyes sitting on my desk downstairs, i need to figure out a way to mount them.

Once again, Im more interested in learnning to **** around with electronics rather than just buy the built crap.

len

If you want to learn, purchase a book on electronics. You'd be surprise how much you can learn from a book.

Trying to make one yourself is like hunting squirrels with a 50 Megaton Nuclear bomb, sure it'll kill the squirrels, but it isn't very efficient/smart.

There are plenty of strobe lights kits manfacturers out there, just pick up one for $10 and tear it apart and look at it if you're so intent on making one yourself.

Good Luck,
Len

Archidictus

Took the words right out of my mouth . If you want a quick run-through, borrow a high school kid's physics book and run through the chapter on electricity. Triangles are ground, three lines stacked vertically with a taper from top to bottom is a capacitor, squiggly lines are resistors, black dots are soldered connections, white dots are power sources (I think). That's what I remember from high school: I'm a sophomore English major in college now, so you may want to punch circuitry and electricity into a google search and confirm it.

Props to wanting to learn for yourself...I dunno about the application, but it's your car and I don't really mind lighting effects like most of the angry people on this board .

integra-modder

I ordered a set of strobes yesterday, so Im already prepared to take the thing apart...


BTW, the three lines tapered downward are ground....