@RailRide posted:Are your LED strips stuck directly onto the shell? I was looking at doing this for mine, but planned to mount them loosely, retained by the bracket that held the original incandescent lights. I believe the 600-LED strips (each group of three has smaller spacing) line up rather well with the gaps in the bracket.
---PCJ
Yes, I mount them direct to the shell.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:I've mounted LED's directly to the shells of countless passenger cars, 50-60 of mine, and more of customers. Running them at reasonable intensity, I've never felt them even get warm, much less how enough to deform the shell! Unless you bought the high-power LED strips, I don't know how you get them hot enough to actually melt the plastic! Here's an 18" MTH Premier car light with 25ma total power to the LED strip. There is zero danger of anything melting here. How bright are those LEDs to melt the shell???
I'm not sure how bright they are. They look great but they do get very warm. I used a different brand of strip (I typically use the LE brand from Amazon) on the R32 set. Obviously, the damage is already done but if I replaced the strip with the LE brand, would they not get as hot?
