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How to wire LEDs to car battery

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Jammer

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Post Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:32 pm

I am wiring 30 blue 5 mm LEDs all over my car, I have purchased the LEDs, holders, round switch and wire, is there anything else I need like a resistor? How do i go about wiring everything? And is it a bad idea to go to the battery or should i go to some other power source in the car?
bad venge

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Post Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:14 pm

specs on led's ??? you need a fuse as well
Jammer

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Post Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:24 pm

Its these
http://www.oznium.com/led/tech
The blue ones[/url]
Jammer

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Post Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:18 pm

im going to wire them all in series, i dont think i need a resistor actually, and what kind of fuse should i use, i have a. 8 gauge wire running to a fuse kicker fuse block that i had from my previous audio system, would i be able to just run a wire out of that to a switch and then to each individual light?
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Post Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:30 pm

Jammer

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Post Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:29 pm

thanks alot, but do you know if i can use a kicker fuse block with a 50 A fuse? I'll just stick the wire from the switch into it
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Post Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:26 am

Jammer wrote:
thanks alot, but do you know if i can use a kicker fuse block with a 50 A fuse? I'll just stick the wire from the switch into it

Do you have 8 gauge wire going from to switch to the fuse? If not (which I'm betting it's not as 8 gauge wire is going to be tough to attach to a LED switch if you bought it here), then you need to fuse for the smallest wire in the circuit (smallest wire = largest AWG number).
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