LED lit Plexiglass - Install Light up Panels in your Car Audio Builds CarAudioFabrication
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- CarAudioFabrication shows how you can use light up plexiglass in a car audio install to accent the build. It can be used on a fiberglass sub box , on an ampliier rack, and more. These custom car fabrication techniques will definitely help you take your install to the next level.
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Are you wanting to use plexiglass on a future install? How about some back lit? Watch this video and learn how you can integrate it into a panel within your install.
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I would love to use this technique to highlight a merch table at a music gig :)
I'm planning on building a 4th order bandpass box for two RF 12" P2's. I want to get a piece of plexiglass to put onto the front of the sealed portion of the box, and am planning on getting an etched-style logo to stick onto the plexiglass portion, then I want to light it from the edges so that the logo lights up, but no other parts (except for the very edges) do.
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hey, have u done, instead of sanding the transparent material, u route/etch a design onto its surface? I would expect the etching to catch the light, as the led light should permeate through the plexi like fiber optics.
Super clean look, Mark! Just like my shiny bald head after a shave...LOL. I always wanted to do a sub box or portable stereo using plexi, just never did.
Can you please make a video explaining how to hook the led up to the vehicle's power supply or an amp?
I didnt really mention it in the video but if you are just lighting it, you can use thin stuff, like an 1/8". Obviously if you are using it for a viewing window into a sub box it has to be thicker. But thats a different tutorial.
I used plexiglass in a door panel. Underneath the plexiglass we used a stretch fabric against the back side instead of sanding. We also cover the wood on the bottom with aluminum foil to spread/break-up the light. It makes the light-source look centered and seem brighter.
SLAMMED THAT LIKE BUTTON SO HARD I THINK I BROKE IT...thats right all caps
Use polycarbonate next time, I find it much easier to work with. It is a little more expensive, but if it doesnt crack when I put screws through, I will take it.
If it was thick enough to support yes, if you re just using it as an accent then you could have holes through it and a piece of wood hidden behind it.
Yup, but a different Russell. RussLymann to be exact, haha. But you can join my Patreon and I will call your name in the future, and love the support!
Its some cheap little Ryobi set I got from Home depot lol, Im saving up for something better, but if you plan on only using it for a few installs it does the trick!
What's missing is a "Brotherhood of Nod" logo.
That shape was so 'Tiberian Sun'
Polycarbonate won't! Thanks for watching my big bag o money carrying friend!
Me too! It really helps me make future videos as you well know.
Hint! If you have ever taken apart an old monitor and gotten down to the back lit screen you will notice that the imperfections that they put in the plexiglass are more dense in the middle than on the outside. This causes the light that is bouncing back and forth inside the plexiglass to hit less of the outer imperfections, which caused the light to then reflect outward, and allows a more even amount of light to be distributed throughout the entire panel.
If you noticed when he turned on the LEDs it was more intense around the outside edge and the light was not as intense in the middle.
I think that if he did less sanding on the outer sides and more sanding in the middle then the light might look more uniform from outer to inner. Great job though!
Nice let me know when its up, would love to see how you put it to work. Shout me out man! :)
You have to really bolt the stuff down! Total pita! I hate using it for windows but the visual results def pay off. Thanks for watching and posting! You da man
You have the right idea, taking the time to do something like this can reallyput an install over the edge. What are you running system wise? Just curious. Thank you for watching!
Thank you! Did you have a chance to check out Patreon yet? Lots of great perks and will help me make future videos.
i feel like your descriptions were a bit long winded when making the templates and wood pieces. Maybe could do just a simple sentence first then do the deeper describing sentences, or have text slide in at the bottom of the screen saying "Step 1: cut wood. Step 2: cut plexi" just a simple to this point thesis of the step. I'm deffiniftly going to be using these techniques in my install and found this tutorial extremely useful, i didn;t know how to do this previously.
The possibilities are endless with what can be done with it, hopefully this helps you get started. Did any ideas pop up when you first watched the video?
It's great to see these older videos and compare them to the newer videos to see where you started with the older tables and the smaller router table, then to today's really nice shop, large working surfaces, router lifts ,etc. Love your videos Mark. Keep up the great work.
Yeah buddy! Thank you so much! Thats going to keep my channel alive! Its so much easier to make these videos knowing that Im not LOSING money on them!
Well now if you do you know how you can back light it! Thanks for posting and answering the question! Now you are a true fabricator! Haha.
Two layers sounds awesome, do you have any pictures of that that you could share on my facebook page with us?
Nice man! You def should, and don't worry, I wont tell your girlfriend you love me ;) haha
No problem! Im glad they are helping you out! Check out Patreon and return the favor ;)
I see that! Thank you soo much, this really helps me get the materials for projects, I will get you added to the contributors list asap and add you to the credits of the video wen it comes out. Thanks again!
I haven't used plexi for any installs. I do plan on using it for my next rebuild. I've been thinking about mounting the amps under the enclosure like Meades tahoe, and having the rear of the amp "enclosure" have a plexi window so the amps can be seen with the liftgate open. After seeing this video there might be some LEDs in there as well!
No problem Mike, thanks for watching as always! Be sure to share pics with me, you have been watching my videos forever, you should be a pro by now!
Depends what you are looking for, send me a message using the contact form of my website
I plan to use plexi today for the first time. I'm going to use it for my access hole in my first successfully built forth order sub enclosure. This is the 3rd enclosure that I have built but it is the first one that acctually sounds and looks good. between CarAudioFabrication and Steve Meade's youtube pages you guys keep me inspired. Thanks for the videos. Keep them coming.
Sounds great man! Good luck with your install, be sure to share some pics with me on my facebook.
Share pics on my facebook! I want to see what you are up too! Thanks for watching!
Sick man! Well it sounds like this will help you out! What are you running subwoofer wise?
Thank you! What will you be using this on? Or have you used it in the past?
Sweet! Let me know how it turns out on facebook. PROMISE ME, PROMISE!?!?
That would be sweet. I plan on doing an "Edge Lit" Tutorial in the future. That would be nice for under some amps
Sweet! Share pics on my facebook please! OR ELSE ..... I will be sad :(
Thanks! They take a ton of work so I appreciate your thumbs and shares! Thanks!
Doing some 360 modding huh? That sounds cool! Car window!?! explain! haha :)
Nice! You totally should, what are your plans for your install?
Hell yeah! Share pics, or I am hunting you down and taking them myself!
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it, spread the word to your people!
Haha take your time man just dont forget! Congrats on the little one.
Sick man! Got pics you could share with us over on facebook?
Nice! What will you be putting them in? Thanks for watching!
Thanks man, it turned out sick. I like it. Thanks for posting!
Shopping hitting the subs? HUH? Im confuse dizzled.
Cool!
man, what I'd give to have all of those tools! You did a killer job Mark, great design, and you make it look SO easy! Just about want to do this for a side of my enclosure so I can see the air movement inside my box!
see thru sub boxes, console accents, door pod / kick accents, lit ipod / phone docks in a limo, Harley saddle bag radio accents..... the list goes on and on same with mirror backed or marbleized custom painted plexi accents. good work on the vid
I plan on using it in some kind ofdoor pod like you did, great work by the way... but can you use a vinyl semi gloss tint to get the same effect as sanding? Just a thought. "thats what she said" LOL!
I have 2 colors on my logo, Can you make video on how to do that ....
i want to make a "picture Frame" I can put up when Im out working thats back lit with LED.... But take it down so my equipment doesnt get jacked.... any thoughts?
never used it before :/ but i'm planing to using it when i'm building my amp rack should be cool once its done but i'm not quite to the amp rack yet
"...The orbital setting on your jigsaw..."
My jigsaw is, quite literally, 60+ years old. It has two settings: "On" and "off." :-D
I find that a blade intended for thin metals works really well in cutting Lexan and polycarbonate, though. Just gotta go slow and steady!
Thanks Mentalist! I appreciate your support!
Hello! I wonder with what kind of putty to use? So they do not crack when so hacked off the disc through the holes.
Do you have any link to the tape you use? Does it only egenskper to do a distance? Have tape characteristics that run to glue and putty does not stick to the tape?
Thanks for the many fine films. Will use a lot of this when my bill is being rebuilt this winter.
Thanks for this video there isn’t any other videos showing how to cut led lights and make a run channel to install them cause I always wondered how led lights was ran in the consoles and speaker box door pods etc. now I can complete the project that I started 🙏 thanks
I'd rather pick up a routing table, or maybe a router that actually follows a standard (It's as old as the jigsaw), so I can get some of these nifty bits I see everyone using. The jigsaw works wonderfully! ;-D
Hey my friend, sent you a message on here, no rush, but if you could get back at me I'd be super appreciative :D watching this video now, cause you seem to make videos of things I've come to want for my install xD
did you score with a utility knife or something along the top edge and the filler edge? it looks like there's a lot of filler on the top, then next shot shows it nice and clean with the insert.....because if I just pushed through the hole the way it was wouldn't it crack in multiple locations all around where it spilled and hardened over
I actually used a Plexiglas and a led build to light up my under-glow and my interior glow switches under my Rockford Fosgate Cd/Dvd player in my 2005 Sunfire
I used a plexiglass tube, sanded it, and it diffuses a blue light. However, I couldn't use a regular LED strip, I had to get a different kind of LED from Amazon, where's not on a strip, it's just naked wires.
Then I cut out a lot of the wiring between each LED. Very tedious. This gave me LEDs closer together.
Unfortunately, LEDs are hard to center in the plexiglass tube. They'll unevenly press against different sides of the tube, giving you an irregular pattern.
To combat this, I found a thick clear tube, that I slide into the plexiglass tube, that keeps the bulbs from touching the diffused plexiglass tube.
Tough job, but I've done it for a few different things.
Another item I used to do this, was a white PVC-like pipe, sanded the entire thing (especially to get the print off). Looks white, but under illumination the white carries the color cast inside of it.
I would like to ask if you could help your fans add Subwoofers to Cambridge Sound works Tower BI-wiring and BI-Amping Speakers.
Thanks Bryan OC in PDX Org.
Hey Mark thanks for all the videos. Watched all your videos over the weekend found them very detailed and helpful as its hard to find allot of these skills. Is Car Audio Resources . com dead? Also what are requirements when looking for a router, just height adjustable? How would a sticker look on the plexi-glass as I Plan on using this when I get a boot plan set up and have Focal Audio mounted on back light plexi-glass. And will also try to be using all your other techniques.
Well at the moment I have a bit of a mismatch. Sony xplod HU going to two 6" front speakers (aftermarket but not sure what, came with the car when I bought it), a Kenwood KAC-8105D 1000w Amp into a Sony 1000w xPlod Sub. I also have two pioneer 6x9's sitting in my cupboard that I plan to replace the stock rears with soon but I've only just bought the car and it needs some body work first. Gonna get the paint, panels and wheels up to scratch and then hopefully work on some sort of audio install :)
I haven't done any fabrication on my install since before you did your Kerfing video. I've been taking care of other stupid problems. I had 2 bad red top batteries and a bad high output alternator. smh
Feel free to take a look at some videos I was playing around with about a year ago. One was a response video for an SMD contest.
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I've done a pair of polycarbonate light bars. The way I did it was way too complicated. I flush mounted the poly, built a light box behind the opening and mounted a computer LED light tube. I tried sanding the poly but couldn't workout the right grit so I took them back to clear with 2000 grit and used frosted glass paint like you'd use on a bathroom window. It would have been much easier if I'd known about the template techniques. My next box is going to be awesome! Thanks Mark!
I want to light up my hood lever & fuel/ Trunk lever in my car. How should I do that in terms of LEDs? Use a plexiglass and put a 3mm LED light in it? Some other technique? Any help would be much appreciated? Thansk
I have used plexiglass on a center console/sub box. I am planning to build a sub enclosure for my sons 2006 Tahoe that will consist of two 15" DC Audio level 4 subs. I want to incorporate a veiwing window with some sort of LED lighting. I have not began the project yet but I am starting to gather materials. At least things I know I will need. I'm in no hurry and I want to do a really good job. I enjoy your videos. You are very talented. Thanks for your videos.
Mark IV use plexiglass on speaker boxes back windows and the worst one is doing a curved sub box where the guy wanted the plexiglass curve and plexiglass and a heat gun or a lot of fun sometimes except don't touch where your putting your heat
looks awsome ... again :D
i just used plexglass on computerprojects to enlight selfmade engravings... its quite similar, but the glass is only engraved and not sanded.
i used once 2 layer to become a two colord engraving, but therefore i had to use thicker glass and put the leds directly into the border in a drill hole.
I used two pieces of 1/2 inch plexi, and engraved both pieces with a club logo, glued the two pieces together to make one 1 inch thick panel, drilled hundreds of tiny holes and placed green LEDs in the holes, and it brought. Out the logo in green and it was used as a window to the back of a box still in there from what I understand
i have used the Plexiglas on my subwoofer box bro...
u seems experienced person in the field...
check out my setup.. need ur opinion on it bro...
awesome video..
check out ZunavaNY TH-cam channel for a video about stretch ceiling installation. Its the only video that I could find that's similar to one of my old projects
That was 60. Thanks for watching
I'm actually going to use this to make a custom charity piece for autism in April using Funko Pops and different comic book figures
Thanks man! Put those skills to good use!
I haven't used it yet myself, but my buddy cut flames in to the side pieces of his 34 chevy coupes hood and used plexiglass and l.e.d lighting for the flame patterns he cut in both sides. He won best in show at 4 car shows including Carlisle car show in P.A, it was pretty sic looking. On his next project he is using polycarbonate behind the pattern he is going to cut out on the hood of his 1937 chevy truck, that should look awesome as well.
So yeah I know this is hella old. And wondering if you're even paying attention anymore, LOL haven't looked very deep into it at this point but I've got to thank you man. Thank you for generously providing your knowledge and Skills in this area. I like to think that I was somewhat knowledgeable but compared to you and your skill I feel like a child.
I just happened upon your video and know it's over a year old, but I'm currently working on a design for a bandpass sub enclosure with integrated amp rack (one for the mids in the doors and one for the sub). Both will feature backlighting but I decided to do it slightly different than the "frosting" effect. I am going to try to rabbit a small channel into the edge facing surface and install the LED strips there. My plexi panels aren't being hand fabricated, but laser cut, so one of the advantages is to do burned in design into the surface of the glass (reversed and on the backside so the front is still smooth). With the design burnt into the plastic, the light will reflect off of those imperfections.
Thanks I got it, it looks awesome!
Hey Mark, super awesome tutorials dude!
What thickness polycarbonate would you recommend?
www.cardomain.com/ride/135877/2001-chrysler-pt-cruiser/photo-gallery/ lots of plexie work i did in 2001, not quite up to par with your stuff, but 2 18s on a smoked plexi glass board so i could still see whos behind me while driveing
Looks nice man, thanks for watching!
works better if you put the leds on the edge of the plexiglass facing inward. light gets "trapped" inside the plexiglass bouncing around and you get a hell of a lot more even lighting
what kind of adhesive do you use on your interior parts? door panels ext. I'm doing custom door panels on a h2 hummer and the 3m spray is coming off when it's hot out. I was going to use DAP contact cement but would just like your imput. good job by the way.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. I like Turtles!
that was cool, but I have a question. I want to add a logo to the center of my plexiglass. How do you do that and have the outer edge and the center logo light up!!??
MARK ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS! lol but really I love these videos. It makes me mad I'm so poor haha. When I'm making bank though you know I'll remember you're techniques.
I am planning on using plexi to do a similar back lighting technique. but only the outer edge will be visible, making a lit ring behind my cars android tablet install.
Of course my friend ill tag you some pics it might take a litle time cause i have a 15 days old son and i dont want to be using fiberglass and might be harful for him
I'm planing to use it for ah house car radio dat I built...its fiberglass all around but Plexiglas in the front dat wholes the car radio...thanks a whole lot bud.
No i will And ill be doing it on a amp rack. Ill be covering the amps that im am buying.I know i am going to have 4 fans 2 under the amp And 2 behind the amp
Used Polycarb on front of Sub Box and lit inside with Neon lights years ago. It was a three Mtx Blue Thunder 10 inch subs in a three chamber ported enclosure.
I have before I have tubbed out my trunk with 2 windows with plexi I did use a sand blaster to etch in the some letters in it and applied blue l.e.d light strips
I have used plexi before on an amprack. I might use it again in the future, but I didn't like it being plasticky and very sensitive to scratching and swirling, so I'm thinking towards real glass if I ever need just a flat simple shape again...
What I do like is that plexi can be bent using smooth templates and heat, maybe that's an idea for a next video?
going to build a cargo box for ATV and incorporate the bike's logo into the back light using plexiglass. Thanks for helping me take something boring into something awesome.
ha ha this is a passion of mine car audio and led lights . I'm going to make and brand my own sub one of these days. I'm just thankful Jesus Christ blessed me with such an amazing career. in the future that is . just doing it for fun now but I'm really good at it so I'm taking it to max. I'm going to create an amazing sub and box . stamped with my name . thanks for listening . respect for your work. !mad skills
I did for a different protect. But the only thing I did different was only ingrained the image in to the plexi so that was the only thing that lit up.