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If your anything like me, then you love LED's! And I figured, instead of a specific LED project, why not make a thread about LED's in general. Ask whatever questions you have, post pics of LED projects you've done, answer any questions if you know them..

All I know is.. I recently did a trunk LED project *thank you again Kenny for the help*, and I wanna do more.. and I figured, I'm sure others have questions, so here we go.

 
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here's my question. has anyone, or does anyone know how to, hook up an LED light strip in your glove box, with a switch connected?

how would you do this? can you do this? and can you "tap into" wires to do this? and if so, what wires? i'd basically need like a play by play to do this, so feel free to write as much as you want about it. more info i have, the better it is. thanks!

 
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pretty sure im LED'ed out

 
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buy yourself a multimeter. Especially if you're gonna work with electronics, it'll be your best friend. I forgot which wire I tapped, but I had a few blue LEDs lying around, so I mounted them in my center console vents. Now, when my parking/headlights are on, my center vents glow blue

I also got bored last summer and made an LED strip (box, rather) that reacts to the beat of music. Only downside is it requires a music input as opposed to a microphone picking up sound. It's not quite in my car, but i made it for ***** and giggles.

 
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dannnng! see? that's what i mean.. i wanna know how to do all of that! like the AC vents.. how do you get the LEDs back there? and where are they wired? and do you have a switch? and how did you light up your cup holders?? this is all the stuff i wanna know!

 
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what is a multimeter?

i wanna know more about these vents.. feel free to share what you did. lol..

and thats cool about the beating to the music, i got 2 neon tubes under my seats that beat to my bass.. love em.. but they are hooked up to a cigarette lighter extension thing under my seat. i was thinkin about gettin one with 4 sockets instead of 3, and gettin 2 more tubes to put on the back sides of my seats, to light up the back floor board more.. still thinkin bout it.

 
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Thats rowdy overkill :}

 
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a multimeter has a few uses, but mainly you'd most likely use it as a voltage meter. It'll tell you which wires are hot that you'd wanna use to tap for power.

The one I use, I got at lowes for.. $30-$40? Something like that..

 
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all my interior is led, exterior is all regular bulb lol.

 
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heres a few more pixs...even tho the older members have seen it a million times. lol

 
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mine

orange led dash



orange led cluster accents



white luxer1 led dome lights



i also have the 8thgen oem interior illumination kit in blue installed with two pods on the lower console and one in the glove box, but i disconnected the fuse due to the blue messing with my eyes at night (im old lol)

 
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i have a few ultra high power mods comming up... show u guys soon.

 
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jeez. i gotta play catch-up here! ive always loved how these look, and everything you guys have looks great! i am curious though, how do you hook them up behind the vents like that? i'd love to get some blue ones and pop em in there. but no clue how. and is there a way to run them all to a single switch?

i also like how you guys have the AC control lights lit up too.. any info on that too would be great. i'd like those blue to match all the other blue.

thank you again for sharing, and cant wait to see more!

 
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Hmm, do i smell a diy? XD

Someone sent me a DIY link to make a VU meter, which is REALLY interesting.
http://sparky3489.webs.com/vumeterproject.htm

@civicchick
If your dad was an electrician, just ask him if he has a multimeter laying around, im 100% certain he has to have at least 1.

 
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Sl33py, whats that in your cup holder?

 
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yeah, i know what that thing is now.. but i cant ask for one cuz he lives far away from me. oh well, ill just buy one

 
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Glad you like.

 
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LOL, speak of the devil, that's creepy

 
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lovin those lights

still curious how to do the vent lights.. anyone wanna tell me? lol

 
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you kids

 
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I made a wiring diagram for it if you guys want it. I'll post it up when I get on my computer

 
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yep! anything you wanna share is good with me!

i just hope i can understand it lol..

 
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whaaat? its fuuun! haha

 
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its a JDM air freshiner yo...

but i dont know why it says "china" on it.

 
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i thought they were cologne bottles.. they look pretty sweet all lit up. how did you do that?

 
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really? no more people have LEDs? lol

 
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This is the only picture I have with my l.e.d.'s in the trunk of the civic.



Looked pretty pimp. I also had green in the front footwells.

 
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that's sweet.

i'm diggin the green.. im debating on puttin more strips in the trunk to light it up even more. we'll see.. i like the green though.

thanks for sharin btw

 
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This was a long time ago, no longer same configuration, but similar




This is more current:





I installed these for fun, dunno why, took em off tho, dont wanna get a ticket lol
Pink license plate LEDs :P


I have more, but i'd have to snap a few more pix

 
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those are sweeeet

im diggin the pink plate lights.. too bad we cant have that stuff on our cars.. legally.. :/

i also like the LEDS up around the guages.. how exactly is that set up? are they inside with them? or outside of it? i haaaate how my guages are. so boring and just crappy lighting. everyone on here seems to have these nice pretty red/blue lit up outline, with white clean and clear numbers. mine is just stock, black, and the numbers are lit up from some light behind em i guess. no LED at all im sure. i wish i had some that looked like urs. but for manual trans..

and hey, is there a way to.. i guess splice.. into a wire thats pluggin into a cigarette lighter? example.. i have my 2 neon strips under the seats that beat to the music. but, can i take like an LED strip, strip the wires, and expose the wires to the neon, and connect em? then tape it all up? i was just curious about that. let me know if u know