How It's Made: Diode Dynamics Factory Tour 2023

[Diode Dynamics]

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Come with us as we give you an exclusive look inside our NEW 70,000-square-foot headquarters facility!

Equipped with everything from a light tunnel to automated circuit board assembly lines, this facility is where we design, engineer, and build premium LED lighting accessories.

A team of nearly 90 people supports the entire operation, including sales, service, marketing, engineering, production, logistics, and operations staff.

We take pride in our quality products, our customer-focused service, and our work in going "against the grain" to manufacture products here in the USA!

Main headquarters, Engineering, and Compliance Testing.

• Test garage and media studio
• Showroom and meeting spaces
• General offices
• ESD-safe electrical laboratory
• DOT/SAE compliance environmental test chambers
• Goniometer and integrating sphere for photometric testing
• Engineering offices

Home of Diode Dynamics Manufacturing and Distribution.

• Automated SMT lines for PCB assembly
• Wire assembly and manual workstations
• Ultrasonic and hot plate welding
• Conformal coating and encapsulation
• Support shop with CNC machining, cutting, and press
• Warehouse and distribution

Free Facility Tours:
M-F 10:00-5:00 pm, CST

Diode Dynamics Headquarters:
3870 Millstone Pkwy, St Charles, MO 63301

Contact Us!
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 314-205-3033

Thank you to all forum members for choosing to support Diode Dynamics!

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[crazywayne311]

great video! fighting my urge to buy something haha

 

[currybob]

Very impressive!

Happy to see your company located and dedicated to being a US manufacturing company. Wish more US companies would follow Diode Dynamics business commitments.

Thanks for your tour, I wish your company continued success!!

 

[gooby]

Cool vid, makes me more confident that my upcoming elite f150 headlights are going to be well made.

 

[Treich560]

Parts are made in China? Assembled in the U.S.?

 

[Fredm2002]

Thanks for sharing the information in the video.

 

[gregs150xlt]

Awesome video!

 

[Diode Dynamics]

Cool vid, makes me more confident that my upcoming elite f150 headlights are going to be well made.

While there have been some delays in production in recent months, it's all for good reason and assuring the highest quality and performance product possible delivered to our committed customers.

This delay was the same case for our Elite Series Jeep JL/JT headlights but are now in full swing and owners couldn't be happier!

We truly cannot wait to get your lamps to you.

Parts are made in China? Assembled in the U.S.?

Great question!

We have a ton of different components in our products, sourced from both US and overseas suppliers. Many components have multiple suppliers. The decision comes down to overall capability and cost - some components like LED chips simply are not made in the U.S. at all. We do our best to buy domestically whenever we can (especially with freight costs these days), and we're proud to be supporting 40+ production jobs here in the U.S. by doing all assembly in-house.

Thank you!

 

[bushpilot]

@Diode Dynamics - the mounting bracket supplied doesnt work with my '23 (dual exhaust)...

I had to mount mine differently .
Love the lights....but an updated bracket is needed.

 

[JJSnell]

Thanks Paul and John @Diode Dynamics
Appreciate the tours presentation and detail. As a business owner I also apprecaite you folks keeping as much as you can domestic-based.

I will be starting a new thread and tagging you on it with some Q's....

 

[SpaceWhiteF150]

Thanks Paul and John @Diode Dynamics
Appreciate the tours presentation and detail. As a business owner I also apprecaite you folks keeping as much as you can domestic-based.

Couple things I would like to ask:
1. Can your R&D folks borrow an F150 Platinum and come up with a clean, unobtrusive lightbar or light pod setup? The Platinum grilles do not have a lot of options for a clean lightbar setup and not all of us want the larger offroad looking lights. Maybe a pod option down by the license plate?

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2. Could your R&D team also look into a foot switch for the on\off of the light bars? Many, if not all manfacturers have a dash mounted button\switch seems a little annoying at times, (just my personal opinion). I collect and restore older '65\'66 Mustangs and the yester-decade foot switch for highbeams is still a very nice and easliy accessible switch to have and use. Would love to see an updated version of this for your lights.

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This might help you out!
https://www.f150tremor.com/threads/bumper-lights-write-up.684/page-2#post-39581

 

[SpaceWhiteF150]

Perfect Space... thanks... would love to buy a pre-fabbed kit. Last thing I need is another deep project. Idaho requires a front plate or I would love to have lights in all three spots.

You could always run a different plate mount!
https://offroadalliance.com/SwarfWo...MIt--Mr4rz_wIVZTrUAR0MMAp5EAQYBSABEgIB6_D_BwE

https://builtrightind.com/products/...MIt--Mr4rz_wIVZTrUAR0MMAp5EAQYAiABEgK9xvD_BwE

Also the mounting solution posted above is only one flat bar piece!!

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