LED’s in my car
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Forum Name: Lights, Neon, LEDs, HIDs
Forum Discription: Under Car Lighting, Strobe Lights, Fog Lights, Headlights, HIDs, DRL, Tail Lights, Brake Lights, Dashboard Lights, WigWag, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=36265
Printed Date: May 03, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Topic: LED’s in my car
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Subject: LED’s in my car
Date Posted: July 27, 2004 at 10:57 AM
ok wow i have posted this 3 times and every time it messes up and canot be read for some reasion, ne way this is what i want to do i want to put 10 or so LED's in my car to give it some light (my lights are brokwn) and i have a bunch of 470 ohm resistors and i was wondering what is hte best way to wire theys or what you would that is farily easy, thanks alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (theos are the LED's i cant paist the table because it messes up each time)
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Posted By: xetmes
Date Posted: July 27, 2004 at 11:43 AM
470 would work, 330 would also work and be a little brighter 470 will give around 20mA, 300 around 28 mA
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: July 27, 2004 at 6:34 PM
ok but how would i wire them?
Posted By: fugit
Date Posted: July 27, 2004 at 7:47 PM
This should help, parralell or series https://www.streamload.com/zaeren/bugman/Bugman_LED_Resistor_Modulator_locked.xls This is good to have if you want to work with LED's. ------------- "I'm Rick James bi***, enjoy yo' self Ah Ah Ah"
Dave Chappelle as Rick James
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: July 27, 2004 at 10:51 PM
wow that looks very helpfull but i dont think i know how to use it.... i fill in hte boxes but i dont know what the amps adn stuff are in a car ,(forward current)? lol errr
thanks though ill try to get it worken
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: July 30, 2004 at 11:27 AM
could you or soem oen help a lil more help im very confewsed still..????
Posted By: xetmes
Date Posted: July 30, 2004 at 12:06 PM
how many are you installing? if you are installing a few the simpliest way to explain would just take each LED, attach a resistor in series with it, and wire each one of those to +12V you can get into series/parallel but for that sake of simplicity im not gonna bother explaining that unless you are using like 5 or more.. ohh just reread your original post... 10... you can still do as said above...
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: July 30, 2004 at 11:16 PM
so...err take 10 seprate lines fro mmy battrie ane put a led on each one ... 10 lines?(power lines)
Posted By: xetmes
Date Posted: July 31, 2004 at 7:31 AM
nah you dont have to do that, they only draw 20mA, so 10 of them will only draw 200mA about that of a relay just use one power wire that branches to the 10 LED/resistor combos imagine there are 10 sets of resistor/LEDs in between the little "o" s, sorry for the horrible drawing lol POWER--------------------o------------\/\/\/\----- >|-------------------o-------------GND
Posted By: DaGr8n8
Date Posted: July 31, 2004 at 1:52 PM
ok humm so they are all jsut like on the same wire? like in the picture ??? kinda except more leds 
Posted By: TownAndcountry
Date Posted: July 31, 2004 at 2:14 PM
Wow
Posted By: xetmes
Date Posted: July 31, 2004 at 6:30 PM
not too sure what that drawing is showing, but im going to guess it shoes them in series. You want them in parallel, as if your drawing had them stacked on each other... the all hook to +12 and ground, none would hook together in a row
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