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LED’s in a car?

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Printed Date: June 03, 2024 at 9:38 AM


Topic: LED’s in a car?

Posted By: Incanus
Subject: LED’s in a car?
Date Posted: August 09, 2003 at 4:54 PM

I've got a 1994 Chevrolet Lumina I'm wanting to put LED's in, just as lighting for under the dash, but I've come across a snag. I've got LED's that are just regular LED's, 3.3 volt, I've got resistors for 12v operation, but something has confused me. How am I supposed to hook up LED's with a positive and a negative, into a car that only has 1 power cord, coming straight from the battery? How do I get the LED to light up, wheres the negative? Do I run a negative line from the battery as well?  Let me know, and also, lmk where I run the resistor from, if I were to hook up 5 LED's off of one line, I'd want to take the wire(s) from the battery, split it 5 ways, and on the positive, hook it up there before it reaches the LED? 



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Posted By: yodo
Date Posted: August 09, 2003 at 5:09 PM
Wire the Leds in parallel so you only require one resistor, then attach the negative wire to the body of the car. Or do it your way, a wire for each led than ground an the chassis.




Posted By: Incanus
Date Posted: August 09, 2003 at 5:13 PM
Will it still power even though the negative is just gounding? I know that's what its for but I thought... Well I'll try it. Explain to me what you mean by wire them in parrallel?




Posted By: Incanus
Date Posted: August 09, 2003 at 8:05 PM

Okay well nevermind, I went and tried it and it turned out allright, I just have to figure out a good way to mount them now!

Thanks dude!

Incanus






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