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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Look at this thread.

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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