[How-To/Write Up] Changing the Color of Your Halo Headlights

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Oct 20, 2006 | 09:21 PM

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looks great, do you know if putting the halos in the oven will blow the stock led's?

I don't think they will, most LEDs can handle 500deg F for ~5 seconds with no damage, so 200 deg F is childs play.

Oct 20, 2006 | 09:27 PM

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Hey evilbadz, just wanted to let you know ours were wired a little differently than what is on your how-to.

Ours had two resistors on the positive wire inline(about 1.75 volts after both resistors). Those wires then went straigt to the LEDs which had the positive tied in to the positive of both LEDs and the negative tied directly to the negative of both LED's

Let me know if that is confusing and I'll take some pictures for you.

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Oct 20, 2006 | 09:38 PM

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Hey evilbadz, just wanted to let you know ours were wired a little differently than what is on your how-to.
Ours had two resistors on the positive wire inline(about 1.75 volts after both resistors). Those wires then went straigt to the LEDs which had the positive tied in to the positive of both LEDs and the negative tied directly to the negative of both LED's
Let me know if that is confusing and I'll take some pictures for you.
Thanks
Chris

Hrm that is weird, they wired them in parallel instead of series. You should still be able to do it the way I showed in the writeup, although if I can I'll add your information to the writeup!

Thanks bud!

Oct 20, 2006 | 10:12 PM

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sweet write up, again another vote to be added to the hall of fame

Oct 20, 2006 | 11:24 PM

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I don't think they will, most LEDs can handle 500deg F for ~5 seconds with no damage, so 200 deg F is childs play.

perfect, thanks. im painting my chrome halos black soon.

Oct 20, 2006 | 11:37 PM

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evilbadz........YOU DA MAN...........

Oct 21, 2006 | 12:30 PM

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congrats evilbadz, you made it into the "hall of fame"

AGAIN!!!

Feb 24, 2007 | 08:51 PM

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hey many MCD leds are those.. will 13000mcd be bright enough?

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Feb 24, 2007 | 09:21 PM

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I used this write up and switched my halos to red, and painted the chrome black while I had them apart. The write up was an awesome guide! I used 25,000mcd red LED's for mine.

The pics are dark because I took them in the garage with low light to show the halos. Sorry.

Feb 24, 2007 | 09:22 PM

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your car

Feb 24, 2007 | 09:27 PM

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If you were talking to me, thanks, I appreciate that.

Feb 24, 2007 | 09:37 PM

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yeah, i've wanted to do that hood/spoiler then with the color'd ring for a long time and seeing it makes me

Feb 25, 2007 | 04:34 AM

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xtinct, ........ur camaro keeps on getting better!

Apr 8, 2007 | 10:33 PM

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Awesome writeup!!!!!!!!1

Apr 27, 2007 | 02:50 AM

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Sweet set up

Sep 7, 2007 | 04:06 PM

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Great write up!

Nov 28, 2007 | 03:08 PM

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bad as hell !!!

man, put some teeth in the grill and that thing would look like a monster coming up behind you in the rear view mirror.

Jul 3, 2008 | 01:48 PM

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Hey I am trying to open the writeup on how to change the color of halos but it wont open for me.. I have adobe and everything but everytime I click on the writeup it just takes me to some mind mod site? Can anyone either tell me where I can find the writeup or send me the writeup? Thanks