whelen edge "custom LED" do-it-yourself project

[Valerieannleeh]

Nice!

[thebakerman1]

Very nice job!  looks factory too. If the strobe diffuser lines weren't in the lenses the LED's would be even brighter, but great job :)

[trainlova12]

wow looks good thanks for the reply on facebook

[kitesurfer1404]

Thanks. But I don't have facebook. :-S

[trainlova12]

o guess ur ot the dude! someone said this was there vid on facebook! haha

[TheClemsonDude]

Props for that, excellent job! I would love to build one but I'm colorblind and therefore not so great when it comes to electronics :(

[partyguy210]

wow looks perfect! A*

[RatPatrol4X4]

Awesome

[WARD5KUSTOMZ]

how did you do it? neat been thinking about building my own lightbar

[kitesurfer1404]

just put some LEDs on a boards, wired all stuff up, built a microcontroller-board, programmed the microcontroller and fired it up ;-)

feel free to visit my website. there are a lot of images and other projects. some are not translated to english, so feel free to contact me, if there are any questions.

[CETRONIA331]

@WARD5KUSTOMZ i sell the led panels if you are interested email me at lightbar360@aol.com

[lacucaracha2709]

This is fantastic.

Just a question, what did you use for the controller? An atmel avr?

Is there any chance that you share the diagram?

This is great.

[kitesurfer1404]

yes, it's an atmel avr (mega8)

you can find a diagram on my website (link is in the text on the right, you can change language to english on the top right corner on my website.)

there's nothing special in the circuit. very simple design. this was my first avr-project at all. :-)

[lacucaracha2709]

Thanks a lot, i noticed the link just one second after sending the original message. I think this is a great proyect I will try to do one myself. Do you base the program of the avr in something that already existed or its all yours?

I repeat. This is great. Thanks man.

Hope to load some video soon with mines :)

[kitesurfer1404]

the AVR-program was built "from scratch". it's not based on any code. I used an AVR-tutorial to learn assembler-programming. so because this was my first project at all the code is quick and very dirty. *lol* but it works. maybe there will be a new version with some more "whelen-style" falshpatterns. i don't know. have fun with your project. hope to see your videos soon! greets!

[lacucaracha2709]

Thanks a lot.

Hope you can tell me what avr tutorial you find because i have find a lot but they are just too complicated.

Hope i am not bothering you.

Thanks again. Hope to post video soon

[kitesurfer1404]

it's a german tutorial on mikrocontroller (.net) (hopefully youtube allows this comment beacuse of the URL)

i don't know any english tutorial, but you can search for "arduino". it's an atmel based hardware with a very active community. they are very creative and i think there will be some guys who love any new blinky-lights-project ;-)

[lacucaracha2709]

¡You rock!

Thanks a lot. Hope to post a video with progress soon. Tanks a lot again.

[kitesurfer1404]

no problem! you're welcome.

[bringnouttheded]

Very fine work. Have you tried building something with genII or gen III LED's yet? I know the red is not as bright as the blue or white in this video, but higher quality (and unfortunately more expensive) LED's might balance the brightness of the red.

kudos to you m8 for the fine job!!

[MEDICBOY209]

so what style led did ya use? looks gret...thinking bout doing this to mine...what did it cost ya?

[kitesurfer1404]

Hi,

i used 5mm LEDs. Blue: 7000 mcd, red: 5000 mcd, white 12000mcd, amber: 2500 mcd

white and blue are _very_ bright. red is okay for indoor-use ;-) amber is quite too dark. so you should use 7000 mcd and above.

all parts (without frame and lenses) cost about 75 €, i think.

feel free to visit my website for more details on the lightbar. there is also a diagram for the controllerboard.

kitesurfer1404 . de / lights / <- remove spaces