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Led Hookup to DRL Wiring Help

Old Mar 27, 2011 | 08:23 AM
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Default Led Hookup to DRL Wiring Help

Hey everyone,

I need to hook up a pair of LED strip lights, so that when I turn on the daytime running lights, the led strip lights also turn on. However, I am not sure about the wiring. Does anyone know how to do this? Could you provide instructions/pictures? Thank you for all of your help.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 12:33 PM
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I was not aware the Z had daytime running lights.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 12:50 PM
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Sorry, I meant the orange fog lights that come on with the first turn of the headlight switch.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 03:40 PM
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Wire is red with blue stripe in the driver floorboard, but I think that the switch provides negative instead of positive, so it complicates your wiring of the strips since you can't just ground them near the location and run a positive to tap into the switch with a relay.

I just did something similar this past weekend on my car and I decided to make my parking lights and the LED strips be daytime running lights instead. You can find my post in the 350Z Tech -> Exterior section titled "Come rag on my attempt at DRLs". In the end, I was happier with this than using the fog light switch.

I ran all new cabling for the strips and to my existing parking lights (that I also replaced with LED bulbs for v-leds) and wired it all into the ACC/switched power. I would suggest this over just trying to tap into the parking light switch.
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