Audio/Visual & Electronics - new LED's

so i defintly got some new LED's today cuz my sh!tty old ones kept breaking. so i wired these ones up, took me about half an hour to hard wire it in, and get them mounted. i would post pics but my mom is in the states with the camera(N) but i think they look DEADLY and i love them! haha il post pics when my mom comes home for sure

Sounds good. You should try to get a gallery up when you can. Can't wait to see what all you did.

got a question about the where to mount the rear ones. im thinking about right at the end of the front seats, but im woried people will kick them with their shoe and break them. where do you think i should mount them?

how many are you planning on putting in? for my front ones I put 4 led's under each from seat and they are bright! I think you could just put em under the front seats and point them towards the back and i think you should be bright enough bro...depending on how many you put in...the leds are very bright and i don't think you'll have a problem if you mount them higher up towards the front of the seat and just point them toward the back...that's what i would do anyways, that way you have to have a long foot to reach em

true that man, il probly end up doin that! thanks for the advice! i bought four 6" LED tubes, and they are bright as hell haha i love them, totally worth the money i spent, which was like 30 bucks canadian at wal mart:)

nice bro! where abouts are you from in Canada?

say i buy LED tubes or just straight LED's how do u wire em into the car? wut wires are able to be spliced and where are they?

hey bro check out my thread from a few weeks back:
http://www.hondacivicforum.com/m_408731/tm.htm

tons of great help from the guys...i wired them up through a switch and powered them through my amp...no problems at all so far and they are super bright! i love em!

well i wanna wire up some LED's but the only amp i have is this...

http://www.discount-car-hifi.ch/shop/dbimages/c150.jpg

its a Boss Chaos C150 200w 2ch amp.. what can i do with it? can i power it to my rear speakers? to get some more bass out of em?

^i'm confused about what your talking about now...why are you talking about your speakers now?? i thought you were wanting to power some leds...you can do that by simply connecting your positive power line to the amp, then to the power supply of the switch but what are you asking now?

also, i think you need the remote wire...not the main power wire...because if they dont have a fuse or anything to regulate the flow...then all that power should blow the LED's...also it doesnt matter what amp you have. and no, that wont give you more power to your speakers.

well i could use the amp for two things, thats wut i was saying. cuz if it gave more power ^ which it doesnt^ then i would use it for them. But Ill just use it to wire up some LED's

ORIGINAL: phan10m

well i wanna wire up some LED's but the only amp i have is this...

http://www.discount-car-hifi.ch/shop/dbimages/c150.jpg

its a Boss Chaos C150 200w 2ch amp.. what can i do with it? can i power it to my rear speakers? to get some more bass out of em?



dude, you dont need an amp to wire LEDs lol just run a 12v into your interior fusebox and ground the black wire to your chassis and you're set. LEDs barely draw any current, i've left my underbody and trunk neons on all night and my car started the next morning.

if you have ones that pulse to the music, just wire it to your cigarette lighter, thats what i did instead of having it plugged in all the time

ugh the cigarette lighter hook up is so tacky ,IMO

Are you gonna post some damn pictures, or what?!

ORIGINAL: mlobitz

Are you gonna post some damn pictures, or what?!


+1 lol for real

You don't need an amp to power leds...You simply have to find or make a power source from the battery and then find a ground. Power and ground the leds and voila: light.

man im gunna have some pics on saturday because my mom has hte camera and is coming home on saturday, i promise!

hey i just wired up some flexstrips from oz this week. i got my 1st and 2nd orders from them on monday and tuesday. anyway i tucked them under my dash and they look great at night. today i wired another flexstrip into my dome light. have yet to see it at night. one thing bad with glow is its useless until dark. i'll post some pics too, maybe tomorrow.

hum........ flexstrip in dome light.... i hadnt thought about trying that.......

ORIGINAL: addiction2bass

hum........ flexstrip in dome light.... i hadnt thought about trying that.......


thats funny, since i've started on glow since youre advice on flexstrips in another post. i'm gonna eventually use them on my UB, dome light was super easy and the flexstrips will bend to fit nicely. i used a 9.5 crammed in there and a 4.7 would have been fine. i like the blue much better than the boring white plus everything else will be/is blue. i'll work on pics.

haha got my rear LEDs wired and mounted under the front seats tonight. major questoin/problem though. i took the front seats out and unhooked the seatbelt connection things, and now the SRS light in the cluster stays on. i doulbe checked the connections when iconnected them back up and they are all good.is this a big problem?

dont think it should be any problem except it would bug the hell out of me. is there a ground wire there if so make sure its grounded well. i'll be taking my seats out real soon...wish me luck.

Unhook the battery.

ya just unhook the battery for awhile to reset the codes...........


and i know the flex strips will bend very tight turns;)

for mymap light i just have a green 9led bulb replacement bulb piece.... goes decently... i have only one tho in my front map lights, and my dome light light is a replacement white 9leds bulbs.... i got the white ones free cause when i ordered some blue and green ones for my truck and friends truck they screwed up and sent a white instead of blue one. and they said i could keep the white one and they sent me the right blue one.LOL
i just had to bent the contacts out and angled some to fit the larger bulb units.LMFAO

man i left my negative and positive terminals unhooked all night and hooked them up in the morning, but the lights still there [:@]any other suggestions?i dont wanna pay 60 bucks to get honda to reset it

just a suggestion but i'd think about unhooking the battery then disconnecting your connections, and then try it again? if you just unhooked the battery while still leaving the connections the same, then i don't think it'd change after you hooked up the battery again...I'm not 100% sure though so maybe someone could help me out or something

ORIGINAL: addiction2bass

hum........ flexstrip in dome light.... i hadnt thought about trying that.......




Yea....... I actually went a different route, I took a set of THESE (http://superlumination.com/images/auto_bulbs/7443ss_w_wm.jpg) tail light bulbs that I had lying around (switched to better towers), took them out of their holders, soldered um together side by side and then soldered them to my dome light, they are freaking bright....

ORIGINAL: jason_hann53

man i left my negative and positive terminals unhooked all night and hooked them up in the morning, but the lights still there [:@]any other suggestions?i dont wanna pay 60 bucks to get honda to reset it


http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/CarbonizedDX/srsreset.jpg
use a paper clip....

i got it :) i just went to the honda dealer and danny the service manager did it for free! im pretty tight with them up there so i was pretty happy. no more srs light haha but still the DAMN abs light

ORIGINAL: jason_hann53

i got it :) i just went to the honda dealer and danny the service manager did it for free! im pretty tight with them up there so i was pretty happy. no more srs light haha but still the DAMN abs light


stupid question but does your DX have abs?

haha nope. the cluster thinks my car should have abs since i swapped clusters from an ex. so since its not there, the cluster detects a problem and the light stays on[:'(]

Yea...... if you don't have it, pull the bulb :D

dito.... just pull the bulb. tho i believe to get that bulb you gotta pull the cluster apart at least the clear bezel and then the black bezel and you should be able to get to the bulb...
OR if your DX didnt have that orange plug in the back of it.... just leave it unpluged ;)
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/NEW%2099%20Civic%20EX/LED%20CLUSTER/ledsdone008.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/NEW%2099%20Civic%20EX/LED%20CLUSTER/ledsdone007.jpg

lol well this is ridiculous....addicition put up more pics in your thread than you have GET EM UP!!!!!!!!

lol well this is ridiculous....addicition put up more pics in your thread than you have GET EM UP!!!!!!!!

Hahaha. +1

haha i just got home from medecine hat. so il get pics up once it gets dark here which should be in about an hour :)

ORIGINAL: Overurhead360

lol well this is ridiculous....addicition put up more pics in your thread than you have GET EM UP!!!!!!!!

Hahaha. +1


+2

i wasnt trying to hijack the thread.... LMFAO

i just love pictures ;) pictures are worth 1K words....... like saying.... hey i got some green underbody leds ;) and then shown ya ;)
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/civic17s053.jpg

well those my old cathodes... im to lazy to rewire my front led strip back on after tearing the strip and ripen off my front channeling... and i still have to buy my new led strips for the sides still... all my cathodes are trashed down the sides so i havent ran my UB lights in about 3-4months :(





HURRY UP WITH DEM PICS....

or ill be forced to post more stupid pics.....

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/zzz%20MISC%20STUFF/misc008-1.jpg
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/zzz%20MISC%20STUFF/557.jpghttp://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/zzz%20MISC%20STUFF/A4DD9719C7BA4B5A8ED35B06FBB4CF10.jpg

Lmao! hahaha.

yea u needa get them up now....its been dark for a while...........stop stalling, because i dont wanna see any more of addiction imitating buck-toothed wildlife..........

here we go boys! haha i know, they are crappy pictues.

from the back seat:

nvm haha got it. here you go!

local://upfiles/17908/175732AB248740839D56EE0F5C28714C.jpg

I think you need to do some more leds down there, loks alittle dim, but nice, might just be the camera im sure its brighter than that, i had the same problem with my foot wells i couldn't get a good picture that showed the brightness.

ya looks like ya needed some longer ones ;)

tho geting a glow picture can be tuff... i usualy go thru my cameras settings trying to get a good picture and then i just go thru them on my computer and find out which one looks good...
i got one setting that works preaty good but it shows the lights up REALY BRIGHT.LOL it flashes then takes a longer picture....
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/addiction2bass/NEW%2099%20Civic%20EX/NEW%20FLEXled%20underbody/frontledstrips008.jpg

hardest part is NOT MOVING the camera.LOL
i still need to buy alittle tripod or something...

yeah man they are 10X brighter in my car. it took forever to even get that picture haha, but i definitly love them and they were worth every penny!

so what did ya use again? dont feel like looken thru 4pages again ;)

i used four 6" LED tubes. they had screws on each end, and i just screwed them to under the dash and under the seats. they have a little box that lets them pulse to the music, so i wired them through the cigarette lighter. i love them, they are bright and pulse awesome :)

Yeah im sure they are brighter than that then, unless they were sucky leds but even then they should look brighter than that picture.

LOL should bought from http://www.oznium.com/;)

dag thats 4 tubes??? imma just stick with the cathodes, those seem to be brighter (addiciton dont even comment on them i kno your life story!!! lol) it looks good though.........i wish i had all my glow gauges red like that....actually i wish they were blue/green.......actually i wish i had some glowgauges??? lol custom interior light job here i come!

haha if only you guys lived in moose jaw saskatchewan, i would show you haha they look so awesome, way better then the pics. super bright and probly putting more in the trunk! :)

well might i sugest for your next lighting buy some FLEXstrips leds.... try them out! they are well worth the money and they dont even cost that much ;)

ORIGINAL: addiction2bass

well might i sugest for your next lighting buy some FLEXstrips leds.... try them out! they are well worth the money and they dont even cost that much ;)




...and super easy to hook up! I wired them up under my dash in an hour, fused and all.

this is what they look like, plus one in the dome.


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lol.... well maybe that dome light idea wasnt so good after all....... they are to close to the lense.....

maybe if ya pulled the led strip out and used a can of window FROST on the leds MAYBE it would help...

whats that gonna do for it?

The frosting on the leds helps to diffuse the light to creat a better cast....... I've had mixed results with that.

I used to have an led board like the one Velocity on ebay sells and while it was white, it was freakin dimm.... So I ended up taking a set of these:
http://superlumination.com/images/auto_bulbs/7443ss_w_wm.jpg
that I had left over (swapped out for smt tower units) and removed the led's from the bulb base. I then soldered the two together and made this:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/CarbonizedDX/leddome.jpg
and this is what it looks like lit:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/CarbonizedDX/leddomelit.jpg
**crappy cellphone camera shots**

just found some new led units... i think ill have to try these out for sure for my dome light and map lights!!!!!!
http://www.oznium.com/led-modules

http://www.oznium.com/product_photos/large/1173.jpg

http://www.oznium.com/product_photos/large/1178.jpg
http://www.oznium.com/product_photos/large/1171.jpg
hell if they are that bright i might just redue my tinted taillights superflux leds!!! all depends how even the glow is on them...

i just happened to look at OZ and seen it say NEW... looks preaty cool

that dome light looks pretty effin tight IMO. maybe i should get some and wire em in my dome haha :)

i'm pretty happy with the dome light, light spreads pretty evenly because of the jagged finish on the dome cover. i noticed oznium has dome led's but they are square where my dome light is rectangle, sux. those led modules are pretty cool though.... hmm so many options. guys i think i may have a problem with glow. honestly i think "addicted" may be the correct term.

ya i have a glow problem as well ;)
most people say RICE....or wanna be fastNfurious... BUT they dont know me.. ive been doing UB lighting since 1996 when i got my first car ;) and have done EVERY car ive ever owned with UB lighting!

at least ive grown up and hide the bulbs or now hidding the leds ;)

yeah man, your glow always looks so clean and well done, good job:)

thanks... thats what i try ;)

i like having everything so if i dont have them turned on YOULL NEVER KNOW they are thier! ;)