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[Solved] Red LED Car Break Lights In my computer case?

Forum CPU & Components : Power Supplies, Cases & Mods [Solved] Red LED Car Break Lights In my computer case?

I have a HAF X case and I'm planning to to put these awesome Car Break lights in my Case!

Its almost as if its ment to be!

Here it is.

It even has adhesive strips so it stick on the top of my case!

My question is, Do you think these LEDs will be a normal yellow with just a Red cover on top?
Or are the LEDs themself red? In any case, I got these LEDS for $1 (free shipping) so if the Break Lights turn out to be yellow LEDs I can solder these on.

You think 32 LEDs (5mm each, 5000mcd) can illuminate my case nicely?

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Reply to saif1994

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saif1994 wrote :

I'd bet they're red. LEDs create more or less monochromatic light, so turning a yellow LED into red light with a lens wouldn't produce much red light. You would need to use more expensive white LEDs (which are simply monochromatic LEDs exciting a phosphor coating to create polychromatic white light) to be able to get red light using a red lens.

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You think 32 LEDs (5mm each, 5000mcd) can illuminate my case nicely?

5 cd is a relatively bright LED and 32 of them would light up a case pretty well.

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`Cause he got them for a dollar!

Yep, brake LEDs are red. Have you ever seen the paint peeling from professionally installed LED brake lights?

(Edited to correct too fast typing syndrome.)

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misry wrote :

Have you ever seen the paint peeling from brakes?

Yes, I have. There are quite a few idiots out there that try to rice up their cars by spray-painting their brake calipers or drums ( :lol: ) red or some ugly fluorescent color. They nearly always just spray on some cheap non-high-temperature rattle-can spray paint straight over all of the rust and dirt and crap on the brakes, so it flakes off in short order. I'm not surprised when I see it as anybody dumb enough to want to turn their car into a garish ricer is dumb enough to not know how to properly paint metal.

Message edited by MU_Engineer on 07-02-2010 at 06:00:25 PM

Thanks a lot MU_Engineer!

Your reply was very helpful as well as informative.

@ zipzoomflyhigh
The Break lights are 2" thick (including the mounting things) and the HAF X has 3" of space from the top where nothing can be seen from. So onces the lights are in the case, you cant see them. There perfect! And yea, what MISRy said, They were $1 lol.