taylorscock

andone here have any experience wit LED interior ligting that can offer some suggestions ?
I tnk it looks pretty cool, but would want something I could control myself. Cut on/off when I want to.

Thanks!

paulmasoner

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well first you can start with LED bulbs for the OEM interior lights... many places to find the, http://autolumination.com/ makes some very nice ones. i used the 194 matrix bulbs, forget which one for the dome...

as far as adding your own lights.. one option would be make your own tube lighting. just a string of LEDs in a plastic conduit. you coul wire multi color this way if you wished. i would always fuse everything, so you could use one of the add-a-fuse things for it, and a $5 12V DC toggle from radio shack to turn on/off for just one color, you could get more creative if you did multiple colors. i beleive there are control modules made for powering/switching multiple color lighting(typically for underbody lights) that you could use, some even can tie into your music.

PoLaK

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autoillumination is crap don't use em they've gone out in my position and sidemarker lights now 3 times.

I switched to v-leds a while ago and haven't had an issue since and these highpower ones are 10x as bright.

http://frickinbrite.com/catalog/inde...cPath=81_83_97
Hes out of stock of white but they will be back in a bout 1.5 weeks.

paulmasoner

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thanks for the heads up polak, when ever these blue ones die, or i get bored with them, i'll check there for some new whites, and also for exterior lights

djkrazy

I am a total newbie into putting interier lights in a car ....... i wantto put in LED or neon lights inside in the driver well ..... ummmmmm to be in detail ...... what do to you do




i want to do just like that ... that same as JRH13NJ's rx8

Rotary Rasp

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Look at this thread.

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=118507

taylorscock

I was thinking of just purchasing the one from AutoZone. It's like a 6" led that is a tube/stick and is bendable. Plugs into cig. lighter and you plug and unplug as you want it.

StealthTL

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Got a little carried away with the LED thing, modified my overhead map lights to take a 3-Watt blue. That's a huge LED, takes a large resistor and needs a heat sink on the back to channel the heat away.

It was probably overkill, melted a little patch on my overhead console......but LOTS of light !

S

chickenwafer

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Probably overkill?? LOL you had to add a heat sink! That was too funny!