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dssence 03-15-2014 11:07 PM

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

N1rve 03-15-2014 11:12 PM

Do you mean something like this?

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

dssence 03-15-2014 11:29 PM

Yep somethine like that :)

Turbo95eg6 03-15-2014 11:36 PM

lol wtf

Tromatic 03-15-2014 11:58 PM

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

dssence 03-16-2014 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tromatic (Post 1602730)
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.

N1rve 03-16-2014 12:34 AM

One word... Winjets.

dssence 03-16-2014 12:44 AM

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

636 03-16-2014 12:46 AM

http://www.fteightysix.com/whats-new...g-light-black/

dssence 03-16-2014 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 636 (Post 1602797)

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

N1rve 03-16-2014 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dssence (Post 1602802)
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

DaJo 03-16-2014 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dssence (Post 1602802)
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

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.

dssence 03-16-2014 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by N1rve (Post 1602805)
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

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.

jonzhuxD 03-16-2014 01:14 AM

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


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