Rgbled's Ambient Lighting

[ShaneAlan]

Hello all from Ventura CA.
I own a 2014 V6 convertible premium edition. by trade i'm a fabrication specialist (metal mostly) and I have lots of ideas for this car and have already made some small custom parts. Right now I'm trying to expand on my rgb led ambient lighting. I'm trying to find a part number for the leds but even ford dealer ships can't find anything. I've tried buying ones off the net but haven't found one that works right. I've made a custom billet cover for my center console around my shifter with plexiglass trim. so I'm trying to hook up some leds to it. maybe someone has already done something like this and can give me some help, thanks.

 

[BlackBuggy]

Are you wanting to expand the Premium Package My Color lighting concept?

I am not exactly sure what Ford is using for their My Color system, but I think it has more to do with manipulating light frequency wavelengths to reflect whatever color you are dialing in or something like that. I wish I knew more.

Working in the automotive lighting industry, I know Ford has interesting work and proprietary items with the folks at Osram-Sylvania. When they work on these items, they don't use any sort of modular approach- Ford makes sure the application is very specific, cannot be interchangeable, and that you just can't swap out an item yourself. It keeps Osram from taking Ford's items and putting them in cars with bow ties or Fiat stamped on them. It's really quite expensive and wasteful to use that kind of approach, but this also allows their dealerships to acquire more money from changing out items on new cars that our grandparents could have repaired on their own within a few minutes on their cars.

You may be able to reverse engineer a gauge cluster (or the little sidesteps that say "Mustang" inside the doors) from a newer Premium Mustang that has been junked and salvage those lighting elements although the cluster may only contain the lighting elements themselves and not the driver module or communication device that tells the lighting elements what wavelength they should oscillate.

 

[ShaneAlan]

Are you wanting to expand the Premium Package My Color lighting concept?

I am not exactly sure what Ford is using for their My Color system, but I think it has more to do with manipulating light frequency wavelengths to reflect whatever color you are dialing in or something like that. I wish I knew more.

Working in the automotive lighting industry, I know Ford has interesting work and proprietary items with the folks at Osram-Sylvania. When they work on these items, they don't use any sort of modular approach- Ford makes sure the application is very specific, cannot be interchangeable, and that you just can't swap out an item yourself. It keeps Osram from taking Ford's items and putting them in cars with bow ties or Fiat stamped on them. It's really quite expensive and wasteful to use that kind of approach, but this also allows their dealerships to acquire more money from changing out items on new cars that our grandparents could have repaired on their own within a few minutes on their cars.

You may be able to reverse engineer a gauge cluster (or the little sidesteps that say "Mustang" inside the doors) from a newer Premium Mustang that has been junked and salvage those lighting elements although the cluster may only contain the lighting elements themselves and not the driver module or communication device that tells the lighting elements what wavelength they should oscillate.

Yes, specifically the ones that attach to the cup holder. I don't know much about led lights either. the only thing I've been able to find out is that they're RGBWA lights for red, green, blue, amber, white. I did get one kind of rgbwa to light when I wired it. but when I changed the colors it wasn't matching up with the rest. I can purchase the entire lighting system from ford parts but I don't need the entire system.