FSAEracer03

Yup, that's right. I decided the weak stock key light needed more power. <<insert Tim Allen grunting>>

Stock key voltage requirement: 1.5v (weak)
Kevin's key voltage requirement: 4.5v (argh argh arghhh)
Result? 1100mcd (a normal D-cell powered flashlight is ~700mcd)

I had to machine out the bulb port as well as the battery area and even did away with the crappy way Porsche connect the ground contacts and made mine so it was failsafe. Notice the manly bulge of the button and LED, hahaha. What can I say? My key now has *****.

And this half-parody of a thread is useless without pics, right?

streckfu's

Very cool!

How about more details!

Which light did you use?
Battery?
How did you modify the ground?

How about a picture of the internals?

Campeck

yeah. internals.

rads2

It's great isn't. I did the same thing. My key is like a flashlight now.
HERE is the site that i took it from.

WesM951

haha thats awsome!! I need to get snapping on mine, the bulbs are trashed, but the batteries are new.

streckfu's

I did that before but would love to have more output!

Zero10

Where did you get that figure from?
I would expect a D-cell powered flashlight to be maybe 70,000mcd, or at the very least 15-20,000mcd.

Campeck

haha. wouldnt 70,000 mcd like...burn your eye up..
leds that are 11,000 mcd are BRIGHT AS HECK..like if you look at them..your eye hurts really bad. lol.
and I know eye hurt...i got shot in the eye.

Zero10

Sure, a 11,000mcd LED is very bright, since it comes from such a tiny spot, just like why a lot of HID lights are so offensive, yet offer the same light output as a halogen bulb, since the light output is from a tiny spot. I'm pretty sure most decent D-cell flashlights put out at least 20,000mcd.

FSAEracer03

I was told those numbers by the guru at Radio Shack.... though maybe I got the trailing zeros off. The gist of what he said was "this LED at 3.6 volts has as much intesnsity as a full size flashlight."

Didn't see the site before, I'll post internal pics later on for you all.

Tom R.

jeez guys, i didnt realize so many of youl have such a hard time putting the damn thing into the little hole without the help of a flashlight.

Matthew951

Serge944

Argh argh argh indeed!

I lost the little copper connector that goes inside. Speaking of which, I actually switched key heads when I sold my '86 because it was much newer than the 84 key.

Talk about cheap, eh?

Zero10

Just for s*** and giggles, I took a 22,000mcd white LED that I have, and used it right next to my D-cell Mag-lite. There is no comparison. The mag-lite is probably 5-10x brighter.
Dunno what that's worth, just thought I would post it up here

On the other hand, I have a 50,000mcd LED, but there is no way it will fit in the key head, and I think it will drain the batteries pretty fast!
I had considered converting my key head over to a LED, but I never use the light for any constructive purposes, and I would just keep killing batteries playing with it.

Blue S2

Ok guys, lets quit toying with small time lighting..... Someone get to work and figure out how to power one of these babies inside our keys!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.surefire.com/maxexp/main/...1071/sesent/00



1 LED BLINDS YOU at night. LED is light without heat? NO ITS NOT! HAHAHA, i have one of those flashlights, and that SOB heats up! Thats REAL LED light!!!!! DAYLIGHT!!!!!

HAHA, seriously though, LEDs in our keys are the best improvement!