Vent Lights, A little project Options

[Ruroniarc]

I wasn't able to take any pictures while I was doing this because I did it at midnight in a rush, but here is the final product. Sorry about the blurry pictures too, it was taken in the dark. Trust me, they look better in real life.



For this project I pulled 12 volt power off of my cigarette lighter and put a 10mm Super Bright Blue LED in each of the four vents. Just drilled a hole and taped them in. Then ran leads from all LEDs back to my power source. I wired them in series because each LED pulls 3 volts, and I didn't need resistors that way. I also hooked it up to a switch so I can turn it off when I want to. If I didn't have the lights on, you would never know they were in there. It looks really cool at night when I'm driving around. I just thought the interior could use a little extra light, mine seemed to be a little dull a night, and I would find myself turning on my dome lights to do just about anything. Now I got that nice blue light. =D

My next project is to do the heater controls and then the gauges in blue. Already ordered the LEDs. =D

This post has been edited by Ruroniarc: Jun 30, 2009 - 6:29 PM

[skogs]

you'll need a small resistor anyway, even if all the led's sums up to 12v. The resistor is needed to limit the current, the led will die if resistor is omitted.

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

This post has been edited by skogs: Jul 18, 2009 - 5:20 AM