For people that are putting on extra LEDs on the car, suck as LED side markers.......
How do you connect the wires? Do you just cut the wires from the head light and connect them? Is it going to burn the wires in a long run (because the same wire is now providing for the head light and LED) or screw up something?
Sorry for the dumb questions....
Thx.

 

Use either of the parking lights (there are two on each side). The LED's draw very little power (low voltage / current application) so the wires should be ok. Make sure you use a resistor to cut the voltage down to the value required for the LED's.

I can email you detailed instructions if you need them.

 

yeah, just tap into them, either strip the wires an solder it to it, or they sell clips that will splice 2 wires together mid run. first is probably better, but second is much much easier.

 

i had mine all custom done. i didn't tap into either of the wires cause that would make it so you can't take off the bumper without tugging on the wires. i had custom plugs put on the ends of the wires so that i can take the bumper off and unplug the LED's. then when i want to put the bumper back on...snap...they are plugged back in and ready to go. works like a charm.

djk

 

And someone told me that LED is meant to be blinking, so thay are not very good to tap into parking light. Parking light is always on when you turn it on, so the LED will burn out easily.
Is that true? If you wired them to park light, what is the life of LED?

 

wire the parking strip to the parking light and the blinking strip to the signal wire. easy as that.

djk

 

there are special blinking LED's if you want to hook them up to your signals. im not sure about the blinking rate, but i have seen them in stores.

Either way you look at it as long as your not running too much power to the LED's they should be fine weather or not they blink . LED's are used in just about all electronics because they dont burn out. the only way to burn out an LED's is if you run too much juice to it and in that case it will pop and stink up the place for a while. (personal experience)

Happy Blinking.

 

LEDs have a 100,000hour life, do the math, its about 10 years, they also do not take damage by blinking or constant use unlike bulbs. they are extremely efficient, meaning you could line like 100 up on there and barely pull the same current as a bulb.

 

Thanks guys, it's good to know that the LED is good for park light.
I got the LED sidemarker from strictly Z, anybody know if I have to add extra wires if I want to connect them both to park light and signal light? Do I need a resistor or a relay for it?
Also my guy told me that our car has single connection for the wires, so not a good idea to run the LED on both park light and signal light.......... true?

Thx

 

hmmm hard to really say, you cant use it for both, not electronicly possible. you have one series of lights, and it can only have power from one source.

what you can do is power it to the parking lights, and put a relay in with the turn signal, when the turn signal power goes on, it will cut power to the reflectors, meaning they blink, but they will blink opposite the reflectors.

only way to have 2 completely different inputs(blink with turn signals and go on with parking lights) is if you have 2 different circuits of LEDs.