INSTALLED: Front Footwell, Rear Seats, and Trunk Cathodes - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

simple0ne1 · 06-19-2009, 12:28 AM

Well I finally had time to put in the cathodes I had laying around. I'm pretty satisfied with how everything turned out. This was the first time I took apart ANY car so it did take a while to play with the footwell cathodes. I had no idea where to put the rear cathodes so I put them under the rear seats not under the front seats.

Excuse the mess

Here's What I did:

Trunk Cathodes - 20 minutes

Front Footwell and Rear Seat Cathodes connected to dome - 5 hours

As the cabin cathodes are connected to the dome light, they will fade in/fade out as the doors open/close, starting the car, locking the car, etc.

Front

Rear

Front & Rear

*Note: I used DYIs from TN, so thank you to all who have contributed!*

kazakh · 06-19-2009, 12:46 AM

Great job

CamrySExxx · 06-19-2009, 01:03 AM

Damn 5 hours?! Look's great though!

Redline_Me · 06-19-2009, 01:08 AM

That is one bright interior. Good job

ophamTastic · 06-19-2009, 01:47 AM

nice work. looks sweet. is that black face covers i see on your radio and stuff?

looks good

**PRINCESS PEACH** · 06-19-2009, 01:53 AM

moved.

Pawel062 · 06-19-2009, 08:08 AM

looks great. getting trunk in this weekend.

a94autoCamry · 06-19-2009, 02:32 PM

good job, thats some bright lighting...I'm sure you will get burned by it (on the eyes) once coming out of a night club or something

Buurin · 06-19-2009, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simple0ne1

Well I finally had time to put in the cathodes I had laying around. I'm pretty satisfied with how everything turned out. This was the first time I took apart ANY car so it did take a while to play with the footwell cathodes. I had no idea where to put the rear cathodes so I put them under the rear seats not under the front seats.

Excuse the mess

Here's What I did:

Trunk Cathodes - 20 minutes

That looks like the one I have in my rolla! Except mine keeps falling off.

CCFL FTW!

MrSo0h0o · 06-20-2009, 01:31 AM

why did it take 5 hrs??

simple0ne1 · 06-20-2009, 02:56 PM

Thanks guys.

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Originally Posted by MrSo0h0o

why did it take 5 hrs??

Was figuring out where to run the wire around to the passenger side then had thought about running the other pair of cathodes under the front seats but decided to mount them on the back seats. This lead to removing almost every part of the car (Screws, removing/replacing panels, tearing out the carpet, running the wires, soldering/heat shrinking).

***bandit*** · 06-20-2009, 11:34 PM

Nice! Help me do the footwells!

Be prepared to replace those lights and transformer. Those cheap PC cathodes are crap. They have dimmed on me after 2 months of use. Went with ozniums and they have been in the car for 10 months and bright as the first day. I only use the cheap cathodes to test out the transformers of the cathodes I'm selling.

simple0ne1 · 06-20-2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by dcemureviews

Nice! Help me do the footwells!

Be prepared to replace those lights and transformer. Those cheap PC cathodes are crap. They have dimmed on me after 2 months of use. Went with ozniums and they have been in the car for 10 months and bright as the first day. I only use the cheap cathodes to test out the transformers of the cathodes I'm selling.

Haha yeah we'll see how they last. So far so good. Might put an LED in each of the cupholders but we'll see how motivated I am to even get it started

Jigg007 · 06-21-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by dcemureviews

Nice! Help me do the footwells!

Be prepared to replace those lights and transformer. Those cheap PC cathodes are crap. They have dimmed on me after 2 months of use. Went with ozniums and they have been in the car for 10 months and bright as the first day. I only use the cheap cathodes to test out the transformers of the cathodes I'm selling.

Haha, I'm actually surprised. I have a cheap set in my car, and they've lasted 2 years. However they take time to warm up now, which is lame.

(and are very temprature picky!)

I'm interested in this Oznium brand, who carries it? I'm native to Newegg. I've just been thinking of replacing all the cathodes in my car with a bunch of wide angle leds.

MrSo0h0o · 06-21-2009, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jigg007

Haha, I'm actually surprised. I have a cheap set in my car, and they've lasted 2 years. However they take time to warm up now, which is lame.

(and are very temprature picky!)

I'm interested in this Oznium brand, who carries it? I'm native to Newegg. I've just been thinking of replacing all the cathodes in my car with a bunch of wide angle leds.

its oznium.com a lot of ppl use them