How to wire LEDs in your car and control their intensity

A How-to on wiring LED bars for your car and how to control their brightness.

Here's the video I promised (I know a few days late but Its been a really shitty week) This is a bit more specific and I think a little easier to understand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGDuwbgkA0

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wiring leds
• LEDs
• Cold cathode
• streetglow
• how to wire leds
• lights
• accent lighting

[MrBBOY760]

Ey dude, just wana let u know it was a success. i installed 2 blue lights inside my truck. thanks for all the help. take care

[NINJAROOable]

@MrBBOY760

Glad it worked out for you! I appreciate you coming back and updating us on how it went!

[MrBBOY760]

Hey dude, watsup again, i have another question. so im finally setting it up in my truck but just dont understand one thing. i know the positive yellow wire is hooked to the one blade on the right, and the one in the middle is suppose to go to the battery, but how do you do that? do you use your 16 gage wire? and do you hook it up to the positive or negative side of ur battery?

[NINJAROOable]

@MrBBOY760

The chassis of your truck is grounded making it (-). So you'd hook up the other side of the potentiometer to the positive side of the battery with something like 16ga wire.

Make sure to wire your potentiometer to your lights first, then the ground to your lights, THEN the positive to the battery. You do NOT want to start an electrical fire in your truck by shorting something out.

[NINJAROOable]

@MrBBOY760 Np, hope it cleared some things up for yuh

[MrBBOY760]

@NINJAROOable thanks bro, very much appreciated



[NINJAROOable]

Part 2 is now up, link is in the description. This second video touches base on a few things you guy's\gals were confused about.

[MrBBOY760]

@NINJAROOable Awesome!! Thanks man.

[NINJAROOable]

@MrBBOY760 I'm honestly not well versed in potentiometers, I used the Audio taper style because it offered higher ohm resistance in a smaller package with the option to totally cut power to the LEDs. I would imagine both would do the same thing in so far as adding resistance to the line.

[NINJAROOable]

@MrBBOY760 Sorry for the confusion, I'll remake the video with a link this week with commentary as a walk through.