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Old 04-20-2007, 11:05 AM
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Ok, well there are 3 wires going to my brake and the LED's only have 2 wires that I am supposed to hook up so how do I hook up the wires because like i said the ones on the LED are orange and black and on the brake they are black, green-white, green-yellow.
 
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Old 04-20-2007, 11:15 AM
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well the black wire is the ground.... and the other wire is the power wire...
it doesnt realy matter which brake or parking light wire you tap into... besides when the leds will be lite.... the brightness wont be changed between the two.... and those halos are so dim that thiers no practical use for them to run dim for parking lights and brighter for brake lights...
those are just decoration... just like halos on the front headlights.... pure decoration... the real bulbs are used for our parking and brake lights...
cause thiers only like maybe 2 leds on each halo ring...
 
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Old 04-21-2007, 07:50 PM
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KIt doesnt just plug into the factory brake harness? i had some led rear lights in my car and all i had to do was just unplug the factory ones and plug in the new ones. and they worked perfectly.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2064132/3 scroll down you will see the brake lights
 
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Old 04-21-2007, 09:15 PM
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i think he is talking about the cheap aztes tha ti got when i bought my trunk lid... which i think are ugly




the way those are its a plug for the brake lights and then a extra ground wire.... and a extra wire that the guy had just spliced into another wire


looks like yours is a full circle of real LEDs...
 
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Old 04-22-2007, 04:07 PM
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one good tip is that when you see a black wire out of any circut, its going to be ground most likely.......ive yet to have seen any wire being black unless its for ground....
 
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Old 04-22-2007, 07:31 PM
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well dont touch the black wire on a house electrical stuff thats the hot wire on 110...
but auto.. ya most AFTERMARKET stuff is black... but stock wires already thier is anyones guess!!!
 
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Old 04-23-2007, 10:48 PM
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well do you know which of the other two wires is the brake? is it the green and white or the green and yellow
 
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Old 04-24-2007, 08:44 AM
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buy a little light tester and test yourself

best thing i can say is to just look at the wires... trace em around... the wire that goes to every bulb is the ground wire.... and the other two wires are either brake or turn signal
 
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Old 04-24-2007, 09:04 PM
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look at your brake pedal switch which is right about your break pedal. there you should be able to determine which is which....
 
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Old 05-22-2007, 06:37 PM
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Does anyone know what kind of bulbs if any you need for the DEPO 2d civic tail lights for the 2001-2005 civic?? and if you need different wires that connect everything?? Please help me!
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