Led strip on parking light T10 bulb? Amperage fuse
 

Hi guys I wanted to replace my normal T10 bulbs parking lights with a led strip. These lights light up when I turn on the knob for the gauges backlight.
Now my question is adding a led strip would make it draw more current (amps) and will burn out the fuse?.
Here I show the light bulb where I would like to add the led strip alone , or maybe led strip + led bulb as well.
thanks
http://oi60.tinypic.com/2pkpw.jpg

Do you mean something like this?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...73773649_o.jpg

Yep somethine like that :)

lol wtf

OP, I have to say that when you finally get done you are going to have the most, uh, "unique" one around.

It's not about being unique. It's that I bought the base car where I live cause the GT which does have led strip + xenon + climate etc. costed a huge more money.
And I don't like the normal parking light bulb. That's why I was looking for a simple solution to add a led strip that's all nothing from out of this world look. Basically I just needed to know if a adding a led strip would increase the amperage consumption but I don't think so, I'll just splice the terminals to the parking lights and it should light up fine.

One word... Winjets.

Hey sorry , what's winjets? I just checked and there are some pictures of the front lights with the led strip. But I'm not looking to change the whole enclosure

Like I said I don't want to replace the whole enclosure , looking for a simple easy to do , nice aesthetic way to add a led strip there. That's all ;) Thanks anyways

Baking the headlight and wiring the strip is a lot of work.... I don't know how electrically incline you are.... but I know I don't have the patience to do that LOL

Winjets or OEM 10 Series/Monogram headlights... Or keep it the way it is. :slap:

Adding (sticking) an LED strip on there looks rice and it's the WRONG way of doing it...

Unless you want to bake the headlights and then risk having them leak... By all means, go for it... Just don't whine about it later.

I do have electronics background. And I was thinking on inserting the led strip through the hole of the T10 led bulb with my fingers delicately until I finally stick it with the 3m tape fully aligned. I know it's not easy but I can do it.
Don't think how it might come out, but it might end up good.
going back to the wiring does the wiring tolerate the led strip (current driving ?) I'm asking this cause I know the circuit is the one for backlight on the gauges , stock audio and some other lights as well. I don't think the leds would drive much but not quite sure. I was thinking on using my DMM and test the AMPS being driven by the led strip. Do you know how much AMPS is the fuse on the park lights circuit?
I bought a nice led strip with 5050SMD high intensity bulbs.

Although I don't think it looks very good, I believe @retrosmiths has done something similar to what you want to do. Here's a picture stolen from his thread (link below), perhaps ask him for some tips?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...929_180501.jpg

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47805

Actually It's great! I like it how it ended up. but I would do it a bit longer. Do you know if the stock led strips have some motion? like the leds sliding from top to bottom? or they just light up and that's it?

You rang?

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It's difficult to make the LED strips bend to accomodate the chrome assembly design, FYI.

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Hi retro ;) . I did really like your mod on your enclosure. I bought some led strips with high intensity SMD leds. Initially I was trying to find some led strips with a led motion but couldn't find any. If I'm not mistaken the leds on the GT when they light up have some motion.
So you had to heat up the casing remove it and attach the leds inside. I really don't want to go thorough all that. By anyways.. just give me a couple tips. :) I really like your mod. It's really neat and decent that's what I want mine to look like. I'm in argentina

Listen I wanted to see your progress on dropbox but it's empty no pictures. Do you have another link. And I was thinking on sticking the led strip with some rigid wire for placement. until I finally find the position. Did you stick it onto the chrome reflector or on the top casing?. can you upload a vid to youtube would be great !

hosld on, I'm drunk

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Do Argentine vehicle laws allow you to add flashing lights to your car? That would not go over well here. Another reason I'm glad I have the boring old '13 FR-S. I can't wait to see how badly they screw up the looks of the next generation FR-S/BRZ with idiotic bling.

Hey ! , well I think here in argentina they don't care at all about traffic laws regarding aesthetics.
What's that about the old '13 FRS? . you do think they're screwing up in the next generation FRS? . I'm not sure if the GTs has that led strip with moving leds

Are you sure there's such thing as "moving LED" from factory for our headlights? As far as I'm concerned, the LED doesn't blink or move for JDM or EDM models.

Our cars better not be the next Knight Industries K.I.T.T. :bellyroll:

Not sure but I think i've seen the 86 GT that kind of strip have some kind of movement when it turned on maybe i'm mistaken. Or was just my impression.

I don't think the GTs have moving LEDs, I think the LEDs are illuminated briefly several dozen times a second, the exposure time of a digital camera is too short to capture a whole light/dark cycle so there's a fair chance an LED will be unlit in any given frame. (stolen from the thread below)

Which is why there's a flicker in the lights you've seen in videos and whatnot, they do not flicker in person.

http://www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?t=9925

^ that's called Pulse Width Modulation, or PWM for short.

Sorry for the late reply guys, I was hungover as crap and still am.

I bought them LED strips from superbrightleds.com and just tapped them directly to the signal lights. HOWEVER, it may not be a good idea cause I noticed the driver side LEDs subtly less brighter than the passenger side. I'm guessing it could be because it's farther away from the battery or something, so I would recommend a relay harness.

I baked them lights open because there is no way I can cleanly install them from the bulb hole and you might actually end up scratching the inside of the glass lens. It's not too hard, 250F for 8-10 minutes in the oven would do the trick.

Also, I fabricated a mount for the LEDs from sheet metal, it's just a bit wider than the strips themselves, so that I can position the strips further down, otherwise if you just stick em in the chrome assembly, it will be partially covered by the hood. I'll post a pic when I find it later today.

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Hi thanks for your answer. I'm kind of worried about the right way of installing the led strips (taking into account the amperes driving of the led).
I will install them on the parking lights bulb not turn light signal as you did. So when I turn the knob of the backlight of the gauges it will light up that bulbs. I Don't know if it's called parking light or whatever it is. DRL I think it's the only bulb next to the High beams halogen bulb.
So I want to know for sure what's the best way to install these led strips without blowing everything up.
Anyone !??

Relay harness with a 10-amp fuse.

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You're sure I need a relay harness for the led strip using the parking lights? I don't mean the low beams. I mean the lights wihch light up when you switch the backlights of the gauges.

Well, I didn't use one on mine and as I mentioned the strips were not lighting up evenly probably due to differences in wire distance from the battery.

Also, safer that way, with a harness so you won't overload the stock wires, kinda like HIDs.

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Wait, hold on, I only saw that picture today, that one in the first post of this thread, why do you have that bulb there OP? Or is it always like that in your country?

http://oi60.tinypic.com/2pkpw.jpg

Well that bulb it's always there. That's the bulb I was talking about. That bulb turns on whenever you turn on the backlight of the gauges where there's the rpm and everything.
I don't know if that's the parking light I think it is. next to it you have the high beams and then on the projector the low beams.