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Originally Posted by 4x4TruckLEDS.com
Poor many my ***... that's awesome. You put a LOT Of work into that.
not a lot of work...on this 16....it was more on the 13..
the 16 turned out nicer....lol

13's pic's....16- was left over from the 20 pack of led's..
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Originally Posted by Steve Osborne
not a lot of work...on this 16....it was more on the 13.. the 16 turned out nicer....lol 13's pic's....16- was left over from the 20 pack of led's..
Awesome job. Thanks for all the pics. A few questions? What size LEDs did you use. I have been looking at 3mm & 5mm on eBay to this as well? Did you glue the LEDs after you installed them or just a tight fit? I think I may have to run a power supply under the carpet as I have the bench seat but that's easy knowing where to find a power source as you pointed out. Thanks again.
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got a 20pack...3mm...ebay--lighthouse leds...then glued inhttp://stores.ebay.ca/Lighthouse-LEDs
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Thanks for sharing. Good job.
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Looks great. Good job OP!
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that looks pretty good man.
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So you were able to wire them in series and not worry about any resistors? Guessing that is why you used 12 LEDS?

Sorry, I'm a novice with LEDS and really like what you did here and just want to understand.
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Originally Posted by chiefapple
So you were able to wire them in series and not worry about any resistors? Guessing that is why you used 12 LEDS?

Sorry, I'm a novice with LEDS and really like what you did here and just want to understand.
The bag shown above is marked as 12v LEDs. These would have a current limiting resistor built in to each assembly. So you would wire them in parallel (all reds together and all blacks together). Then run plus 12v to reds and common of 12v to the blacks.
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Thanks for this post. Great write up and photos! I hate the dark cup holders on my '15 XLT, so this is going to happen. I might as well put some inside the console storage bin too. Is there any reason you went with red vs. blue LEDs?

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