Nah, I'd just use some luxeon LED's. Those things are super bright. 5 watts per led

 

5watts per led.... dam man....thats way to much power!

 

Would you ground the bronze wires of each LED in the respective areas they are placed, attatch both the silver power wires to the theOUTPUT 12v prong, then get a enitrely new wire of roughly the same guage from the FUSED 12v prong to the white wire by the fuses (would i have to put inline fuse in that connection?) and then finially use that same guage wire to connect the GROUND prong to a ground somwhere near the switch. And finally twist a 470 ohm resister between the last 2 prongs on the switch?

and do I need any special connectors to attatch the wirers to the prongs on the switch, or can i just twist em on there?

 

well you can buy some small spade female terminals to plug into the switch... BUT ya realy dont need to... most the time i just strip the wire... put it thru the hole then twist the wire round and round... and put electrical tape over the prong and wire so it never shorts out.. BUT if you realy want to be safe you can just solder the wire to the prong.. solders not that much and neither is a cheap soldering gun... BUT its not realy neccesary....
and YES ALWAYS USE A FUSE... i would remove that white wire and fuse it also! i asume it goes to a alarm system...
at least put a 5amp fuse on the led strips... might only need a 2.5amp fuse.... id start off small you can always up it if it blows realy quickly... but no more than 5 for just these little flexstrips...


and no you cannt fuse the lights to the switches ground... well you can BUT you need another wire that it grounded to anything metal under the dash....
if you ground the strips to the switch then just run another wire off the switch to a ground under the dash. relitivly easy.... must i realy draw ya a picture

 

alright i think i got it now if i do all that i said in my last post i should be ok?

& what did ya mean by "and no you cannt fuse the lights to the switches ground" like attatching the power to the "ground" prong on the switch?

 

o well typo thier.....
i ment you cannt just connect the led strips ground to the ground on the switch.... ya still need a ground wire ran to a bare piece of metal under the dash...

 

I put one of the stick kits under my dash, its a deep blue, I like it because it helps you see for one thing, stuff that little dome light won't illuminate, but its also pretty neato. My pics suck because I don't know how to use her new camera.

I ran my power wire directly from the battery. I tend to run so many different electrical items that i like to have my own little distribution block under the dash mounted to the firewall. I run a fused hot wire, 10 gauge from the battery, to a small block, then I run individual fused wires to each component. Right now, my led's, halos, and soon to have fogs will run off the same block.I switch them to a factory switch port, as you can see in my first pic with flash. I butchered one of the switch pannels trying to put in that spedo switch, but i have another one comming in thats alittle different to replace it.

I wouldn't mind getting a set of that bendable stuff though, it looks awesome. I want a small set for under the car, nothing too bright, just enough to say, humm.. that looks cool.




they look pretty dim cause i can't use a camera apparently.

 

^^ sweet dude. so would you think it would be enough if i just put one inline fuse from power supply to the switch? (it says switch is:Rated 3A/250V AC; 6A/125V AC. Approximately 16A/12V DC, and i'm not sure about LEDs so what size fuse would you recommend that wouldnt be too small/big?)

 

either 2.5 or 5amp fuse

 

ok just picked up everything i should need, (BTW Radio shack I found to be better than any car store, has everything for the job, at lower prices) but I got the 470 resister and was wondering if there is any special way of putting it on besides just twisting it on there?

and would wiring it to the hot wire on the back of the cig. lighter work just as well as the one by the fuses? i am putting the power switch in the place of the cig lighter and I know there a quite a few wires in that little center console so would you think one could be used from there?