moonstone
Tyre Kicker
I'm experimenting at the moment. As you may have read on my Taycan thread, the car I ended up with didn't have the extended ambient lighting option. Without this spec'd the only lighting you get in the door cards is a white glow in the lower door pockets and inside the cup for the inner door handle release. These are created by a white fibre optic strip powered by a single LED driver.
On ambient-lighting equipped cars the lower fibre optic strip has an LED driver at each end and there's an additional, hidden fibre optic strip that creates a glow effect on the alcantara/leather in the middle of the door (as found on many other cars). The Ambient lighting option is only £300 so I'm baffled as to why it hasn't been spec'd on this car. I'm not so much bothered about the ability to change colours but I'd quite like the additional glow on the doors.
With that in mind I've bought some OEM Porsche LED drivers and some generic fibre optic strip. My plan is to take a feed from the existing drivers in the door card and install the strip in the empty space where the factory ambient lighting strip would be.
Did a bench test last night using a 12v power supply and think this might work pretty well.
On ambient-lighting equipped cars the lower fibre optic strip has an LED driver at each end and there's an additional, hidden fibre optic strip that creates a glow effect on the alcantara/leather in the middle of the door (as found on many other cars). The Ambient lighting option is only £300 so I'm baffled as to why it hasn't been spec'd on this car. I'm not so much bothered about the ability to change colours but I'd quite like the additional glow on the doors.
With that in mind I've bought some OEM Porsche LED drivers and some generic fibre optic strip. My plan is to take a feed from the existing drivers in the door card and install the strip in the empty space where the factory ambient lighting strip would be.
Did a bench test last night using a 12v power supply and think this might work pretty well.
