yes....yes I do that.

Back to the basics though, I'm just installing those sockets/mounts shown in the picture as my floor lights.

Boom, floor lights done, 2 holes drilled. This was stuff I already had, I just had to remove it from my now defunct car to put into the truck.

So that part is covered......as far as the original topic, my method would really only work for me unless someone heads to the wreckers and pulls those brackets from a couple of 96/97 thunderbirds/cougars, possibly mustangs and crown vics.

I was just toying with the idea of building an electronic relay box to make additional lights easier to give power or functions to.

This is what I do for living, so working with the electronics and building all of this stuff is not a complicated matter for me, its actually dead simple and moreover enjoyable (for me) ..... this is what I do and this is why I'm in the engineering field

I'm just not happy simply wiring up two wires, and adding a couple of easy to install brackets.

 

I just found my old diagrams for the Printed Circuit Board relay centers I made, I've got designs for a 4 and 6 relay center....

I had them quoted out of curiosity, and either of them would cost roughly $150-$175 + Shipping to have made.

They even have slots for fuses, can't believe I still had them laying around.

I might even be able to have them made cheaper with some new knowledge gained since then... I might be doing some tinkering very soon.

 

Etching the boards??? for $150 you can have all the stuff needed to etch them yourself.

It isn't that hard to do, and you can use magazine paper and your laser printer to print the masks for traces. then you just dissolve in the solvent material.

It's a little harder to do the pretty solder mask and silk screening, but that was included in the $150 cost

$150 seems high just to have some PCB's made though, are they including solder mask, silk screening, drilling, and MULTIPLE boards? or is that the price for just one?

 

Just one board, including all of the components (relays, fuse holders, terminal blocks, etc.

Assembly is still required though, the assembled price is like $300+ from what I remember.

And they use 2-layer printing... I tried doing printing myself once.. never comes out just right and also never seems to last longer than a year or two...

 

Ahhh, WITH parts. That makes sense now. is 2 layer necessary ? What format is your PCB layout? Eagle, Ultiboard, some others I can't remember right now?

 

Ya, no doubt. Solution was solved by 10th post!

You guys are crazy. Talking about $300 circuit boards for simple LED installs.....hahahahahahaha

Moved to General because this is waaaaaay off topic and past the point entirely.

 

WHOA NOW!! I didn't bring up the expensive relay box. I could build the electronic version (basic) for about $20.

Mind you I did just drop $100 @ superbrightleds for all my interior light replacements and a couple of addons

 

And you likely wasted 75 percent of your money. Sure they have good stuff. But I haven't seen an LED yet that wasn't made over seas

 

If you go with Single Layer, then you might as well use a bread board....

Also with the 2 Layer you can make a 4 relay board like 3" x 4" instead of 6"x 8" on a single layer, and you don't have to use jumpers....

 

So I was back to square 1 again,as if that's some big suprize .It was been blowin' the fuse again.I finally got it figured out though.I was puttin' the positive wire from the cig lighter on the wrong connector of the switch.I had it on one end but it needed to go in the middle.Any ol' how,I got the lights wired up,got the button wired correctly so I can cut them on and off when I want and all is good now.Thanks ya'll for your help too!