can i just use a feed from the courtesy lights
without any other fuses etc
i want to fit some led strips in the rear for when the doors are opened
yep me again
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| Author: | marshymob [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | extra interior lighting |
can i just use a feed from the courtesy lights without any other fuses etc i want to fit some led strips in the rear for when the doors are opened yep me again
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| Author: | eogbaker [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
LEDs dont have much resistance so personally i would of thought that would be ok but wait for one of the electrical specialists on here to confirm |
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| Author: | Sloth [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
I didn't use a fuse with mine, if it shorts out somewhere the room fuse should blow anyway, assuming you're using that for the positive feed. The courtesy light is negative switched, so get a positive from somewhere, then just need a connection to the door switch wiring. By the fusebox in the drivers footwell I think its the pink and white wire. If no one else answers confirming that tonight I'll try and remember to check tomorrow 
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| Author: | marshymob [ Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
no chance im going out at the moment to fart around anyway got a load of led strips of ebay that i want to find a use for, so just throwing ideas around |
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| Author: | bugsy [ Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
i have leds strips underneath my doors. just connected them up to the courtersy lights. |
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| Author: | Marc S [ Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
It's not really the resistance through the LEDs (or the lack of it) but it's the fact that they do not draw much current...so the wire to them only needs to be thin, they don't need a big fuse rating, and can be added without doing any harm to your existing circuit  I have hundreds, literally hundreds, in the interior and under the bonnet 
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| Author: | marshymob [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
thin wiring is the key then
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| Author: | Marc S [ Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
"bell wire" from maplin, dirt cheap... I'd use the small black stuff, easier to hide
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| Author: | Rob [ Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
Good timing marshymob, Sandy wants the same on our green machine. Where are you thinking of fitting them in the rear? Bugsy, you say you've LED strips under the door? Whereabouts? Is that on the bottom face that faces the tarmac? Is there sufficient space when the door shuts? Too many questions, but thats what I had in mind! Cheers, Rob |
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| Author: | Sloth [ Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
I did this too - and there is
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| Author: | Rob [ Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
Ta muchly Sloth. May the modding commence Rob |
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| Author: | marshymob [ Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
well mine are fitted under the doors, so they shine on the floor when opened and under the kick plates so it lights up the foot well, but this will be changed to under the front seats and i will be running new wiring through as i have made a complete balls of it, but thats just to keep it tidy
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| Author: | Sloth [ Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: extra interior lighting |
I need to redo mine as well, taken most out for now when I got in a tizzy with the state of my wiring. Once it gets warmer I'll make a better job if it. |
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