So what have you done with your Aston today?
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raceboy said:
steveway said:
just had the rear lights changed to those by Divinatech
For something you’ll never actually see while in the car they do look incredibly cool....I dread to think ‘how much’ 
Fleabay doesn’t usually come with a warranty though.
Better vids on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBRN7ghX-kZfTCAen...
divetheworld said:
raceboy said:
steveway said:
just had the rear lights changed to those by Divinatech
For something you’ll never actually see while in the car they do look incredibly cool....I dread to think ‘how much’ Fleabay doesn’t usually come with a warranty though.
Better vids on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBRN7ghX-kZfTCAen...
macdeb said:
More details needed for this
Okies!We take the original lights and bin everything except the reflector, lens and rear housing. We completely replace the entire electronics and driver board and reassemble 'properly'. The biggest failure of these is the seal at the narrow end and poor ventilation. Proper sealing, using Gore membranes and a stack effect sorts the condensation. If the plastic bits are in good condition, you'll have no more bother. That means your light gets a nice shiny new warranty.
Send us a structurally good set of tail lights, we do all the work and you self fit back in.
If the casing (lens or back case) isn't cracked or otherwise damaged, then we solve the problem.
They can be totally fubar'd, full of water and all the LED's and driver board toast. If the case is in good physical condition (can be sealed) then we sort it, all in the cost.
It's a total re-manufacture only retaining the black back, front lens and reflector. We block the OEM vent and fit two new Goretex ones. We seal the multiplug and after replacing all the innards and we properly seal the lens to the case.
Programming the lights was soul searching because you gents have a certain amount of class so the last thing we wanted to do was make your pride and joy look like a fruit-machine. Subtlety rules!
Functions:
Ignition on pulsed sequence.
Ignition off reversed pulse sequence.
Lights on sweep from inside out.
Lights off sweep from outside in.
Indicator adaptive sweep.
Fog, reverse and brake are instant on.
We have supplied some lights with a pre-programmed flash on initial braking where it flashed the brake lights very quickly 4 times when the brake is initially pressed. The flash is muted (inhibited) if the brake is pressed again within 10 seconds. After 10 seconds has elapsed without brakes being used, the flash is re-instated. Not sure on how useful this is when we have a gadget called the G-Brake that hyper flashes the centre brake light if high G braking is sensed by its internal accelerometer.
What we did very differently wasn't just the funky sequencing. The original lights, you may have noticed, use only a small part of the top inner for brake lights, the outer part is tail lights. We made the whole top part the tail light which goes bright when you brake. The side/tail lights aren't just dimmed LED's, it's PWM modulated as it should be.
The reverse light is replaced from the OEM incandescent bulb
, to a multi element LED.All the LED's are Omron automotive LED's by the way. No cheap crap from Bangood etc!
Funny enough, the indicator sweep was also a challenge. Not all cars were the same. Indicators has slight timing differences from car to car on year to year. This either meant we needed a null time at the end of each indicator sweep or make the timing variable.
The light uses a subroutine that measures the time between flashes. The controller monitors ten complete flashes and then stores that time as the baseline. The light then calculates the time required for the array of indicator leds to get a full sweep in that time and alters the speed accordingly.
There is a small wiring mod to the car to add two simple wires. The multiplug in the tail lights has spare pins, we give you the bits to clip in the extra two pins needed. That makes them plug and play and reverse compatible with standard lights.
The two extra pins are to allow the ignition on sequence because there is no feed to the lights letting them know when you start the car.
Oh, and it's all EMC tested for conformity.
Edited by divetheworld on Sunday 28th January 21:18
AstonZagato said:
Can you do this on Vanquish 2015 lights?
Never had any Vanq lights in my hands. We made production tooled surface mount boards for the other DB9/Vantage/Virage lights so there is no chance they would fit the Vanq internals. However.... We had to start somewhere and the first prototype was made by hand. It is possible to hand make the boards and retrofit the Vanq, but it would take a while and I will hate myself for starting such a foolish project...
How bad do you want them?
steveway said:
divetheworld, Fisher Performance have just done my for me on my 2010 V12V, just one thing and they may have written an email, the lights don't do the startup sequence or shutdown, any reason please
steve
Yup, should be simple. If everything else works, then the 12v ignition live isn't connected. Either to the wrong feed or something else pretty similar.steve
Either Fisher or ourselves can talk it through with you or they can just change that connection. If you want, give us or Fisher a phone call in the morning.
Proper easy job.
Thanks for the reply, have you a diagram and idiots instruction, I am in Shaftesbury, dorset and went 120 miles each way to get them fitted, although I have issues with that as well, the drivers side is not fitted correctly and the boot lid strikes the top, didn't notice until I got home
steveway said:
Thanks for the reply, have you a diagram and idiots instruction, I am in Shaftesbury, dorset and went 120 miles each way to get them fitted, although I have issues with that as well, the drivers side is not fitted correctly and the boot lid strikes the top, didn't notice until I got home
PM'd macdeb said:
Excellent, thanks for detailed reply. Just need to know cost and where from?
Right here buddy!https://www.divinatech.com/ASTON-BACK-LIGHTS-p/seq...
divetheworld said:
Never had any Vanq lights in my hands. We made production tooled surface mount boards for the other DB9/Vantage/Virage lights so there is no chance they would fit the Vanq internals.
However.... We had to start somewhere and the first prototype was made by hand. It is possible to hand make the boards and retrofit the Vanq, but it would take a while and I will hate myself for starting such a foolish project...
How bad do you want them?
Probably not that badly!However.... We had to start somewhere and the first prototype was made by hand. It is possible to hand make the boards and retrofit the Vanq, but it would take a while and I will hate myself for starting such a foolish project...
How bad do you want them?
I was more thinking for when the warranty goes in a year or so.
divetheworld said:
steveway said:
Thanks for the reply, have you a diagram and idiots instruction, I am in Shaftesbury, dorset and went 120 miles each way to get them fitted, although I have issues with that as well, the drivers side is not fitted correctly and the boot lid strikes the top, didn't notice until I got home
PM'd macdeb said:
Excellent, thanks for detailed reply. Just need to know cost and where from?
Right here buddy!https://www.divinatech.com/ASTON-BACK-LIGHTS-p/seq...
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