A bunch of us posted on Hemi's original thread for the TSPP garage door mod. I didn't see any response, so I figured I would go ahead and make one of my own and would reproduce it for anyone who is interested. I can get to making a prototype this weekend and get it all figured out to recreate it for people, but before I go through the effort, I'm just curious about how many would have interest in buying one.

My initial thoughts are making a two LED solution that would light the inside of the garage when the door is opened. I'm pretty open to the idea of color/colors for the mod, since I'll just buy the LED's for it in bulk.

I haven't gotten into the machine to take a look at mounting options, but I don't think I'd need much more than an LED or two, a couple of current limiting resistors, some heat shrink tubing, some zip ties, a couple of connectors to tie it into the playfield, and *maybe* a piece of metal as a mounting bracket.

Let me know how many of you would be interested in me making this mod, and I can figure out a parts price and bulk order everything, and can either send you a "kit" (eg., you assemble it and install it), or a finished mod, ready to install (either via soldering [permanent installation to the coil lugs], or via a 'clip-on' solution that would require no soldering.

I will figure out the cost of the materials and then put a reasonable number on my labor to assemble them and create an instruction manual for you guys as well and then just put it on here and be transparent about it so you can figure out whether it's a reasonable amount to pay for it, and we can collectively decide if I should produce them.

Well, my concept was a light in the garage that lights when the garage is open, much as your garage lights when you open it (presuming, of course you have a garage). I'm certainly open to other suggestions.

well there you go! I would not step on Steve's toes - If he's going to build them, I won't usurp his market and I'd buy from him.

you could do that, as long as you add a current limiting resistor to bring the voltage down to what the led strip needs. My thought would be to tie it into the coil that raises the garage door. If my memory serves me correctly, the coil hold voltage is 50v, so you'd need to pad that down with the appropriate resistor to whatever the strip requires. Oh, and since the coil voltage is AC, you probably want to put a diode in the circuit along with a capacitor across the circuit to smooth the DC as well that the strip will see to prevent flicker.

Edit: just checked - the strips from Comet require 12v, so therefore if you're going to use the 50v coil-hold voltage, you need to drop the voltage down.