Hi guys,
I'm working on a project to mod my car's night-time running light (yeah you read that right, it's a daytime running light that only lights up at night lol) into a true DRL with switchback signal function,
each side will have 70 5050 SMD LED (144LEDs/m WS2812b strip). So far I've sorted everything out and only need to work on the signal input from my car. However, I tested running it on white at full brightness for a couple hours and it gets quite hot on the back of the strip, kind of like hot to the touch, but just lightly warm on the front and on the LED itself. Should I be worry about that? Has any of you guys tried using 144 LEDs/m strips as DRL and don't get it burn itself out?
Please don't do this project. Daylight running lights are generally too bright, they are dazzling and painful to look at. They are distracting and dangerous for other drivers.
That's the whole reason I have the whole NRL statement to cut the brightness to 1/4 or maybe even 1/5 for night time.... Also it's behind a pretty thick light diffuser so no one gonna get blinded by it either, I'm even worrying about it might not be bright enough during the day.
Interesting observation. Are you referring to "DRL"s in the daytime, or at night?
It had not occurred to me that I have not noticed (it is actually difficult to determine) that they dim at night, either by the light sensor or manually switching on headlights. My new Corolla insists on switching on the headlights at dusk or in shaded car-parks or under trees unless I switch it to the "sidelights" setting, in which case it actually switches on the sidelights/ DRLs when it thinks it is dusk but not during the daytime - ergo that is the setting I use in the daytime. At night I turn it back to "Auto" which has replaced any "off" setting.
While in the past, Volvos were pretty harmless, now we have LEDs used in DRLs and they are on most new cars, they are indeed a major safety menace and I agree with Perry on all accounts above.
I await the day that someone is sufficiently competent to perform a study which demonstrates how much they must surely contribute to accidents simply by making it difficult to spot hazards amongst oncoming traffic, most particularly at dusk.
Daytime. Some are horribly bright. I suppose there are many others that are reasonable that I don't notice.
I await the day that someone is sufficiently competent to perform a study which demonstrates how much they must surely contribute to accidents simply by making it difficult to spot hazards amongst oncoming traffic, most particularly at dusk.
