Helmet mounted shift lights?

[bolus]

Boy it's a pain to type these posts in an iPhone

A while back I made a set of shift lights that sit under the bonnet. I'm thinking about replicating the project for helmet mounted shift lights instead.

I found some flexible adhesive backed LEDs and connecting them to the dash is pretty easy. I just need to find a source of bulk coiled wire too hook it up

If I made extra sets would anyone be interested? SPA charges $142 for their
Helmet mounted shiftlights. I made these for like $10.
http://www.spatechnique.com/product_pag ... .cfm?id=50

[FishKiller]

Neat idea.
Do all Atom instrument clusters support this function.
I currently don't have any shift lights, other than the tach changing color.
Would the design include green, yellow and red lights?

[bolus]

I'm still deciding on how to do it. All the dashes have a plug for shift lights. There are 2 possible lights. An early solid light and a blinking second light. To keep it small it may just have the blinking light. The rpm is adjustable on when it triggers. If I still have it I'll upload a video on my lights later tonight.

[Steve]

I have the shift lights in my steering wheel, but noticed that the bottom set (I presume green) are never on. Anyone know if this is normal? Since they're LEDs, I presume they're not burnt out yet. The yellow and red work as expected.

[bolus]

Here is my home made ones. A little brighter than the steering wheel ones which I could never see anyway (I set the triggers to low RPM's so I dont have to redline in the garage)
[youtube:2ozdlz8l]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy24J0d44AA[/youtube:2ozdlz8l]

[Steve]

EXTREMELY cool.

[bolus]

It has been an interesting search for coiled wire to use
in the helmet mounted led connector. So far the least expensive coiled cable I can find (that's not a telephone cable) is $30 for 2ft.

I found the correct molec connectors on mouser.com and at least those are only $.39 each. The LEDs to try should be here this week

[FishKiller]

Very cool, I am interested in doing this mod. Keep going Bolus. Lets get some parts together and make it a plug an play operation

[bolus]

I got a couple of LED's to play with today. there is one small rigid piece that could attach to the helmet in the line of site




And a flexible one that would attach to the inside of the viser. This one can be cut down to a shorter length.

[Steve]

Ooooh.... I like the flexible one.