fixerupper
Well-known Member
This must be the afternoon to get the projects done. LOL Anyway coffee table is done with headlights that light up. The lights can be removed by taking out two carriage bolts and pulling four staples. I hemmed and hawed about powering the lights by battery or wall plug in and I finally decided to plug them into the wall. Went to Radio Shack and got a 110V AC to 12V DC TRansformer that has 500 MA capacity. These lights draw no more than 100 MA together so I'm plenty safe. I tried fully assembling the headlights and putting the LED across the socket where the headlight bulb goes but the LED was too close to the headlight Lense and only lit up a little 2 1/2 inch circle thru the headlight lense so I ended up removing the headlight reflector and sticking the LED in the back of the headlight shell. I had to spray the inside of the headlight shell with rattle can chrome paint first to make a silver background behind the headlight lens. When the LED is not lit up the silver background makes the lense look brighter. When the interior of the shell was painted black the lens looked black. The lights are a little too bright but a piece of tinted plastic could be put over the LED to tame it down.
Here are the final pictures.
The the lights will make you see spots if you look straight at them but at night with the room lights turned off they don't give off much light.
The two LED's and transformer. $40 for everything including shipping for the lights.
Here are the final pictures.
The the lights will make you see spots if you look straight at them but at night with the room lights turned off they don't give off much light.
The two LED's and transformer. $40 for everything including shipping for the lights.