Knightlight have developed a light to fit in the mail slot of the Camaro SS. The 5th Gen Camaro is an awesome looking car, just owning this car shows you like to stand outt. With this Knight right effect scanning light you can stand out more, being individual. The light will fit in the mail slot (black slot between the hood and the grill). It is made using 64 LED's. We are aiming to produce these light as soon as possible, estimated March 2010. We are very excited about producing this scanning light for this awesome machine. There has been a discussion about our Scanner lights on the Camaro5 forum.

There may be budget scanner lights on the internet, we regard our scanner lights to be the best on the internet, with its fading trail effect and many segments, others just don't come close. High quality assembly, unique design using surface mount components much like mobile phones, coated in a tough rubber coating that we have tested to extremes and the light still functions.

As of December 28th 2009 we have completed the electronics side of the light and programmed with our own custom programming with 3 patterns and speed control. Currently the plastic front is awaiting CNC completion. Once proved to fit the new Camaro we will be rolling this out into production.

December 31st 2009 - Firmware editing, the Knight Rider 2008 pattern could be smoother. Working on making it move one pxel at a time like other patterns.

Jan 2nd 2010 - Completed smoother effect on KR2008 pattern. Working well. Have altered design of control board to take an optional brake line signal so the light can be activated when vehicle brakeing.

Jan 10th 2010 - The control board design and layout has been completed. Expect delivery of new control boards and display LED boards in under 2 weeks. Firmware alterations have been worked on over the last week. Using the keyfob and the display being off, by pressing the Triangle button the display will run one cycle then turn off again. Any speed alterations and pattern choice is saved to non-volatile ram after 8 seconds, to be remembered and used on next power up.

Jan 17th 2010 - The prototype display has been fitted to the front plastic with great success. Will be tried on the new Camaro this month, if all fits we will be rolling these into production.

Jan 28th 2010 - Production assembly will be starting shortly, there is minor adjustments to the front plastic. Apart from that we are all good to go.

Mar 2nd 2010 - Earlier on in the year we were hoping to start shipping the lights in the beginning of March. Most of the parts are complete apart from the CNC front. We are trying out a second prototype front to see how good the fitting is. We also want to do some videos of the light running on the Camaro. Electronics and pogramming is complete, we have built almost 100 lights now without the CNC front. As of now we have has 93 depositts. So a big thank you to everyone who is supporting this development.

This Camaro Scanner light will have the following features:-

• 6 Patterns in one light
• Varible Speed
• 64 LED's
• 5mm Ultra Bright LEDs
• Weatherproof
• Replaces original mail slot with no modifications
• Remote keyfob control
• Status LED

The 64 LED's are fitted into a plastic mount and will clip in place or original plastic.  The light gives a very smooth moving effect due to the amount of LED's lighting independently.

Below is the first Camaro scanner light we have made. Shows the use of the keyfob control.

Pictured is the prototype light using ORANGE led's.

White Scanner light fitted to a Camaro 2010.

Blue & Red dual colour Scanner light fitted to a Camaro 2010.

Scanner Patterns

Pattern1 :- Standard 80's Knight Rider Pattern moving from left to right and back again.

Pattern2 :- Like pattern1, with two lights moving starting at each end and crossing in the middle and back again.

Pattern3 :- Knight Rider 2008 pattern, light starting at each end, and filling up till the middle. Once all the LED's on, then start turning off from the middle till all are out, and repeating from the beginning.

Pattern4 :- All LED's on.

Emergency Patterns

Pattern5 :- Emergency Strobe light effect 1.

Pattern6 :- Emergency Strobe light effect 2.

Pattern Selection

Switching between Scanner Patterns and Emergency patterns is a case of holding the pattern button, 'O'. This avaids having to skip through the Emergency patterns when you just want to see the scanning pattern. To move onto the next pattern just press 'O'..

Speed Control

Spped control is controled via the keyfob, hundreds of speeds to select. Press the Triangle button to put the light into 'Speed Control' mode and then you will see a single dot at each end of the light to indicate the light is in 'Speed Contro' mode. When in this mode pressing/holding the Red button speeds up the movement, and pressing/holding the 'O' will slow down. To exit 'Speed Control' mode press the triangle.

On/Off

The Red button on the key fob toggles the diaplay on/off. If the display is off, and you press the Trianble button the current selected pattern will run just one cycle.

Status LED

This is anLED that could be mounted under the hood but visible through the windshield. The LED comes on when ever the display is running, even when running a cingle cycle run (see on/off).

Settings Recall

After a button is pressed eg. speed or pattern selection, then after 8 seconds the settings will be stored into non-volatile memory. This mean when you power cycle the light it will be running the same pattern and speed next time.