Tesla Frunk LED Light - Model 3/Y DIY Installation
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- *UPDATE* Satonic has updated the wiring on the frunk led light and you no longer need to cut the wiring to make everything work.
New video coming with the update but till then, all you need to do is connect the ring wire to the body and things should work.
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Elevate your Tesla frunk by installing LED light. It's a night and day difference and you can DIY. The light in this video is from the brand Satonic.
There is a key installation step required to make this fully functional with the frunk emergency button not in the manual.
Installation steps are personal experience and not professional recommendation
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Dope! Nice shots and installation. More light + more use = Happy Tesla family!
Thank you. I appreciate it
I finally got around to installing this light strip after the ordeal of installing the power frunk and, like the power frunk, they've changed this LED kit since this video was made. The wiring now has the grounding ring on the end of the black wire coming from the white connector that connects to the LED strip, so you no longer have to cut the black wire as you've shown and can just attach to the ring to one of the bolts on the hood latch.
Yes. Thanks for sharing. I actually installed the new light strip last week and have an updated video in the works. I’ll get that out as soon as it’s through editing.
Imperfect Skeleton Tesla. Well done my guy. You are doing a great job. Well appreciated ,your videos have been great,simple and clear. We are having to change many parts for an expensive car.
Thank you. Very much appreciated. A lot of things should be standard (part of what makes them imperfect 😊) but until that happens, I guess we’ll do what we can.
Thank you very much for the very clear installation and work around - I was worried I would have to buy a different LED strip from Hansshow
Thank you. Glad it helped.
Thank you!
You're welcome! Glad the video helped
Looks like that ring is the ground
I think so. The instructions could definitely use some improvement
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What battery were you using I wonder if there would be enough power using the LI 16 volt battery
This is the LI 16 volt battery.
I also tested in the 12 volt previous battery and it was the same experience.
Hmm, I'm pretty certain mine is missing the extra interface cable which is why i took one look at it and chucked it in the "cant be arsed bin". I'll have another look and contact Satonic if it's missing. I didn't want to get into chopping cables.
Oh really? If it’s missing, I’d say reach out. They sent me a replacement when my original one broke.
@@theimperfecttesla I looked again, earlier model, but more effort.
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Late reply. Was away on vacation. So you’re all good? Their video doesn’t show what happened with the wire with the ring either
@@theimperfecttesla No it doesn't show that part but I'll figure it out. I still haven't done this but at least it's clear that I've got all the bits, just need to get around to it. What I don't like is that I think I need to cut the Tesla connector off and I'd rather interface to that with tails.
One day when I'm bored I'll get to this one. It came free with the power frunk kit which was the main part I wanted. :)
@djtaylorutube no, do not cut the Tesla connector. I didn’t do that. I cut their wire instead. Watch how I did mine.
my frunk light came with the ground wire with a magnet at the tip to connect to car metal. I guess they caught on to this issue and started shipping with the black cable to be able to attach to car.
Oh nice. That’s neat and helpful. I just posted an update video where I had to use one of the latch bolts to hold the black wire which can cause the latch to become unaligned if care is not taken. Glad they’re making improvements that prevents that. Thanks for the feedback.
The ring is the earth, it is fitted between the factory latch & the Satonic bracket. With that fitted the internal button works fine.
I’ll have to check that again. I believe I tried that and the only time the button worked is if I was pressing it the first time after the car wakes up but not continuously. I’ll check again
Can you explain it in more detail. I have mine installed and still not figur it out what is this ring.
The ring is supposed to be the earth/ground but for some reason, the emergency button doesn’t work when you wire it normally.
I tested again with the ring between the latch and bracket as best as I could without taking things apart as suggested and it still didn’t work. So far, I’ve not seen any issues with the way I have it setup bypassing the ring.
@@theimperfecttesla I also agree that ring is not reliable after more testing.
@TheKKnut I’ll reach out to Satonic about that and see what they say.
What about that metal ground?
I taped it off to the side. May not hurt to attach it somewhere but I couldn’t find a good spot to attach it to.
Where do i connect the metal ring connector go to?
It doesn’t get used. I taped it off.
I reached out to Satonic about this and they said they are coming out with a new version that fixes this problem. I don’t have a timing on that though.
Did you just try connecting that extra wire to the chassis without cutting the black wire?
Yes, I tried that and nothing worked for that button except the method I used.
@@theimperfecttesla I wonder if they put the connectors on wrong and the one that had the ring on it was supposed to go to the connector, and the one to the connector should have had the ring on it.
Yes, that's what I think too. That's kinda how the auto frunk is wired.