the leds in the kicks hooks to my ecu for my underbody kit, does all the same colors and patterns as the underbody kit too.

 

I like that a lot. I want to do something similiar as well as small LEDs behind the interior door handles.

 

Looks nice

 

on http://www.oznium.com/leds they sell single leds for like $1.29 each prewired, of any color you want. Pretty cheap for a cool mod on the door handles. Im not sure what type of lights are behind the gauges but if they are led type lights im gonna change them to blue

 

Looks good man. I've got blue ones ima put under my dash as well. Just gotta get around to doin it.


BREW

 

Wanna-be BMW

 

about how many hours do leds last? i can think of a bunch of places where i could put some leds. i would like to put some puddle lights.

 

04yellow.....i got some single collored cathodes sitting next to me right now from oznium.

how did you wire them up...or where too....i got 4 tubes...2 transformers, and 2 rocker switches

im putting 2 tubes up front like you, and 2 in the rear and im tyring to do it today but dont know how to...like where to wire it up and run the wires....

thanks!

 

I'd say in theory they have an indefinite life, however they are an electronic component subject to "letting the smoke out".
The most important thing is to have the biasing resistor set to allow the LED to draw the correct current. A good way to smoke an LED is to hook it up directly to a power source without the biasing resistor.

 

i do not know much about leds. would you say that they would last a couple of years? is there anyway to put a photocell?

 

Here's a tutorial on some LED basics:
http://www.lsdiodes.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page_4
Anyway, yeah they should last a couple of years. In a perfect world, they'd outlast the truck.
As for a photocell, do you mean like a flash from a camera? If so, no you couldn' t use one of those. Those are really meant for short duration bursts, not 100% duty cycle.

 

you can tap into the power of the cig lighter wire behind the dash to get the power, i dont have a switch on mine right now, its all controled by the wireless remote to turn the power on/off. the passenger side was the hardest place to put a tube, there is nothing really to hold it in place or to put it really. but i made it work lol

 

i cant get the dash open to get to the source..... i tried just simply pulling on the wood surround like everyone says...it wont budge...

so im thinking im going to use the one that runs to the back seats...i can get to that one easy.

did you jsut cut into the wire?

 

the wire strippers i use is the automatic ones, just stripped the wire back a lil and wrapped the wire around that and taped it really good,

the question earlier that was asked about leds life, they use less power then neon and last longer, im not sure by how much though

 

i jsut opened up my dash....and the cig lighter wires are blue and something else....dont remember...haha

but the wires runing from my cathodes are black(ground wire) and red...

so..i dont know anything about wiring....but can i still connect it?