Has anyone tried to put leds in the grills behind the front tires on a T/A? Ive seen ppl put lights behind there, but i was looking at the grills and was thinking that leds could fit in the holes? I dunno squat about LEDs, so some other experts opinion

 

i would talk to the guy who did the led front plate, and rear license plate lights.

 

Yes LEDs would be easy to do all you need is a voltage source and ground. I would wire them into the parking light's. LEDs do not operate on 12 volt's so if you hooked them straight up they would burn up quick. The way you fix this is to put a resistor. On the positive wire of the LED and remember that the longer wire on the LED is alway's positive. You can buy LED's for around .34cents a piece on the net. I will pm you the sight them being a non sponsor. Resistor's are measured in OHM's. The more OHM's the more voltage it will drop. O.k. now that's a general background on LED's and resistor's. So here is how you wire. them.
1. You need a voltage source and ground I would wire into your parking light's as said before.

2. once you get your voltage source you need to measure your voltage with a Multimeter. With the car running. You should get somewhere around 13 volt's

3. Now you need to look at whatever LED's you get and look at ther operating voltage. It shouldbe somwhere on the box. It will probably be 3.7volts

4. Now refer back to the led package and look at the operating current which will probably be 20mA which is .02.

5. Now for the math part of it you need to use this formula to figure out wihch resistor you need to use.

Source voltage - LED operating Voltage
-------------------------------------- = Your Resistor OHM value
LED Current.

For example I will use the value's above.

13volts - 3.7volts
------------ = 465 OHM's
.02

6. Once you get your resistor value. You just need to solder them to the positive wire of the LED and that will dropsource voltage to 3.7volts. Oh yeah you can be off by 15 OHM's on the resistor snd still be fine.

7. Then just run your + wire to you positive side of the LED and negavtive to negative to the other.

You can buy the Resistor's from radio shack 99cents for 5 You will need one for each led you use. I hope this helps and I would probably use at least 10 led's on each side to flood the area with light. I just made a license plate light and I used 15 LED's for it and it is bright. If you have any other question's feal free to pm me back and I will try to help.

Matt

 

damn, thats helpful as $hit. ill be referencing this later i bet. good job.

 

No problem I'm in the process of getting my associate's degree in Electronic's tech right now. So if you have and other question's feal free to pm me and If I can't figure out one of my friends is going for his Master's in Electrical Engineering right now he will probably now it.