All right dude, I'll start by saying I'm really happy that I found a video for the exact project that I'm attempting to create. Thank you very very much for being one of the first video demonstrations, as I'm sure many like myself are searching for this. Now with that said, your video editing skills could really be more helpful here. I'll just throw out a few questions. Hopefully together we can cover any gaps for anyone else who might stumble on this video. 1. How are these light bars adhering to the installation location? My first guest would be that there is no adhesion and that they are strictly held in position from tension of the trim panels they're placed between. Would that be correct? 2. For the dash panels I could see no issues, but I have to ask about the bars that go between the sections of the door panel. Now, I've taken off a fair amount of Asian made car door panels so far. For the life of me, when I watch this video I just can't figure out how you're pulling that off in this Mazda. Unless yours is different, most cars have that upper portion of the door panel adhered with plastic weld fasteners. To cut to the chase, how did you get the light bars to fit in those seams of the door panel? This leads to my next question 3. As thin as these are, and when I look at them on AliExpress, I'm having trouble understanding how they are fitting in between the seams of your trim panels. As I watch you construct the light bars, You place the LEDs in the channeled portion of the acrylic cover. Then you cover the LEDs from that channeled portion's side of the cover with the tape and the other side is exposed for diffusing the LEDs through the acrylic. This means that you are sticking the thicker portion of the covers in between the trim panel seams in your vehicle. If I could attach pictures in TH-cam comments of my vehicle, I would, but again I'm just having a hard time understanding exactly how you wedged these LED channels into the seams of your vehicle trim panels. Can you elaborate more on all this context? Finally, I apologize for this essay comment I've created. I'm just very serious about taking this project as far as I can with proper installation techniques. Just to add some points and maybe give information to you, I plan to start this project with WLED running the lights, but eventually I will be creating a mobile setup that runs ledFX for the lights. If you've been playing around with WLED I'm sure that you've at least come across ledFX by now. It can create much more sophisticated music sync effects for these LEDs. With all that said, I repeat, thanks for being one of the first to put out a video for this exact application. The final results look very good and I hope to hear back from you. Thanks again.
Hey, no problem I'll try to answer your questions the best I can. 1. most of the trim has no glue and they're just held in by pressure but for the long middle one, i used thin double sided tape to keep it sticking out a bit. 2. you're right mine had the plastic weld fasteners, however by feeding the LED strip in from the inside of the door panel between the gap in the two panels (had to use a flathead screwdriver to keep the gap open) and pulling the strip through i was able to push the led strip into the gap between the two panels (hope you understood lol) 3. I guess you can't really tell in the video but both sides are covered with the black tape, only the front part that you can see is uncovered. the light is bounced around inside by the reflective tape and shines out the front only. as for how i wedged it in, i just took apart the trim, placed it how i wanted it to be and put the trim back, however it was quite hard as they didnt design it to accommodate an LED strip hope this helped, if not feel free to message me on instagram @nc.xdd ill try my best to help you again, would love to see your project when its done :)
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All right dude, I'll start by saying I'm really happy that I found a video for the exact project that I'm attempting to create. Thank you very very much for being one of the first video demonstrations, as I'm sure many like myself are searching for this.
Now with that said, your video editing skills could really be more helpful here. I'll just throw out a few questions. Hopefully together we can cover any gaps for anyone else who might stumble on this video.
1. How are these light bars adhering to the installation location? My first guest would be that there is no adhesion and that they are strictly held in position from tension of the trim panels they're placed between. Would that be correct?
2. For the dash panels I could see no issues, but I have to ask about the bars that go between the sections of the door panel. Now, I've taken off a fair amount of Asian made car door panels so far. For the life of me, when I watch this video I just can't figure out how you're pulling that off in this Mazda. Unless yours is different, most cars have that upper portion of the door panel adhered with plastic weld fasteners. To cut to the chase, how did you get the light bars to fit in those seams of the door panel?
This leads to my next question
3. As thin as these are, and when I look at them on AliExpress, I'm having trouble understanding how they are fitting in between the seams of your trim panels. As I watch you construct the light bars, You place the LEDs in the channeled portion of the acrylic cover. Then you cover the LEDs from that channeled portion's side of the cover with the tape and the other side is exposed for diffusing the LEDs through the acrylic. This means that you are sticking the thicker portion of the covers in between the trim panel seams in your vehicle. If I could attach pictures in TH-cam comments of my vehicle, I would, but again I'm just having a hard time understanding exactly how you wedged these LED channels into the seams of your vehicle trim panels. Can you elaborate more on all this context?
Finally, I apologize for this essay comment I've created. I'm just very serious about taking this project as far as I can with proper installation techniques. Just to add some points and maybe give information to you, I plan to start this project with WLED running the lights, but eventually I will be creating a mobile setup that runs ledFX for the lights. If you've been playing around with WLED I'm sure that you've at least come across ledFX by now. It can create much more sophisticated music sync effects for these LEDs.
With all that said, I repeat, thanks for being one of the first to put out a video for this exact application. The final results look very good and I hope to hear back from you. Thanks again.
Hey, no problem I'll try to answer your questions the best I can.
1. most of the trim has no glue and they're just held in by pressure but for the long middle one, i used thin double sided tape to keep it sticking out a bit.
2. you're right mine had the plastic weld fasteners, however by feeding the LED strip in from the inside of the door panel between the gap in the two panels (had to use a flathead screwdriver to keep the gap open) and pulling the strip through i was able to push the led strip into the gap between the two panels (hope you understood lol)
3. I guess you can't really tell in the video but both sides are covered with the black tape, only the front part that you can see is uncovered. the light is bounced around inside by the reflective tape and shines out the front only. as for how i wedged it in, i just took apart the trim, placed it how i wanted it to be and put the trim back, however it was quite hard as they didnt design it to accommodate an LED strip
hope this helped, if not feel free to message me on instagram @nc.xdd ill try my best to help you again, would love to see your project when its done :)
Sweet set up! Looks great! How was it working with the channel diffuser for the LEDs in the car?
@@MrLuialba pretty easy actually, they're quite thin so it's not hard to get into the grooves. Much easier when you take the trim off
@@runes0 thanks for the info. I’ll give this a go!