W203/CL203 City Light Thread (LED, HID, bulbs) - All you want to know
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If it is for breake lights than no problems, but turn signal will not look good at all, the bulb is just covered by a strip. In my case with smoked white inserts in the tail lights that was really bad.
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The bulbs I bought are for a Ford focus which has one dual filament bulb for brake and turn signal duties. I'll need the resistors to keep the blinkers from going too fast.
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Youre wasting youre time with resistors...expense, hot, and a lot of extra fooling around. A second set of sockets, repleat with the original 194's scotchlocked to the wires works best. Least heat, and dirt cheap.
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yeap ur right outland, i thought about this. I might do this for the fogs.
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What do you mean by "repleat with the original 194's scotchlocked" (my english isn't very good)
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by this, outland means. buy another 194 socket, from like strauss auto or pepboys or w/e auto stores.
splice the wire, and attach the 194 socket to ur exisitng city light 194 socket, so now you have two.
so if u look at it theoretically, it'll look like a "Y" the bottom is the original line, left and right are the sockets.
PUT one LED into the original one, and put a regular bulb into the other socket, (or just leave it?) and plug ur LED in, then there. enough power draw. leds work, no heat, no nothing.
splice the wire, and attach the 194 socket to ur exisitng city light 194 socket, so now you have two.
so if u look at it theoretically, it'll look like a "Y" the bottom is the original line, left and right are the sockets.
PUT one LED into the original one, and put a regular bulb into the other socket, (or just leave it?) and plug ur LED in, then there. enough power draw. leds work, no heat, no nothing.
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by this, outland means. buy another 194 socket, from like strauss auto or pepboys or w/e auto stores.
splice the wire, and attach the 194 socket to ur exisitng city light 194 socket, so now you have two.
so if u look at it theoretically, it'll look like a "Y" the bottom is the original line, left and right are the sockets.
PUT one LED into the original one, and put a regular bulb into the other socket, (or just leave it?) and plug ur LED in, then there. enough power draw. leds work, no heat, no nothing.
splice the wire, and attach the 194 socket to ur exisitng city light 194 socket, so now you have two.
so if u look at it theoretically, it'll look like a "Y" the bottom is the original line, left and right are the sockets.
PUT one LED into the original one, and put a regular bulb into the other socket, (or just leave it?) and plug ur LED in, then there. enough power draw. leds work, no heat, no nothing.
. And if I am doing the tail lights, I will have day quality light in the trun in case I lock myself in, I will not be bored and do seme reading till emergency arrives On the serious note, this is a smart way to go
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That's connecting led and the bulb in parallel. So now you will have the led city lights and 2 extra underhood lights . And if I am doing the tail lights, I will have day quality light in the trun in case I lock myself in, I will not be bored and do seme reading till emergency arrives
On the serious note, this is a smart way to go
. And if I am doing the tail lights, I will have day quality light in the trun in case I lock myself in, I will not be bored and do seme reading till emergency arrives On the serious note, this is a smart way to go
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Can you please give the exact link?
I bought these 194 wedge bulbs with 6 LEDS.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=200081437024
Will they be bright enough?
Just need the resisitors.
How about a pic under the hood??
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I don't see anything on that site called "single polarized 12v LEDS".
Can you please give the exact link?
I bought these 194 wedge bulbs with 6 LEDS.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=200081437024
Will they be bright enough?
Just need the resisitors.
How about a pic under the hood??
Can you please give the exact link?
I bought these 194 wedge bulbs with 6 LEDS.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=200081437024
Will they be bright enough?
Just need the resisitors.
How about a pic under the hood??
no prob. these single polarized LEDs are the brightest in it's class, but, they are also hard to find!
I believe that the 6 leds would be bright enough. but did you buy them "narrow" or "wide" because they'll give you diff effects. yes you need resistors. mounting would be easy, u tap one to the power, one to the ground. and thats basically it.
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no prob. these single polarized LEDs are the brightest in it's class, but, they are also hard to find!
I believe that the 6 leds would be bright enough. but did you buy them "narrow" or "wide" because they'll give you diff effects. yes you need resistors. mounting would be easy, u tap one to the power, one to the ground. and thats basically it.
I believe that the 6 leds would be bright enough. but did you buy them "narrow" or "wide" because they'll give you diff effects. yes you need resistors. mounting would be easy, u tap one to the power, one to the ground. and thats basically it.
Can you post the direct link to the LED's you are using, please or PM me.
I'm on my way to local Electronics shop to get the resistors.
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I shall! once the new resistors come in for the LED fogs!, (I bought the wrong ones! I bought 25ohm 25w resistors, I'd figure that it'd draw enough, but no...lol so I'm awaiting for the nearly $50 total worth of LEDs/resistors!) bought interior black lights!!!
c230 sport coup,
here is a pic of how they look,
I asked them yesterday when I ordered the LEDs, they said this one is "out of stock"
*EDIT*
ah... what the heck! I was gonna post pics up once this is all done, but, heres a preview.
c230 sport coup,
here is a pic of how they look,
I asked them yesterday when I ordered the LEDs, they said this one is "out of stock"
*EDIT*
ah... what the heck! I was gonna post pics up once this is all done, but, heres a preview.
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LED's done
Went down the local electronics store,
santacruzelectronics.com, bought a 2 pack of 33 ohm 5% 10 watt resistors for $1.05 cents.
The LED's were $5.80 for both including shipping.
I installed them. I didn't have very much wire so the resistors are just hanging out of the plastic covers.
It would have been better, with a little more wire, could've secured them to
a metal support member thats closeby with a tie, wrap, act as a heat sink.
But they're ok for now.
The first one, I cut the socket off, and used crimp on connectors,
and it was a mess and took forever. In the middle of it all I drop the socket, and had to take the cover off the bottom to fish for it.
Arrgh.
SOOO....the 2nd one, I just used the soldering iron to melt the insulation on the wires going to the socket without cutting them.
Cleared away the plastic with my fingers.
Soldered wires to the resistors, put the wires around the exposed wires midway to the socket, electric taped everything up, and cut a little slot in the
plastic frisbee cover to allow the wires to get through to the outside.
DONE!!!
Here's an interesting pic.
Guess which is the LED and which is the bulb.
santacruzelectronics.com, bought a 2 pack of 33 ohm 5% 10 watt resistors for $1.05 cents.
The LED's were $5.80 for both including shipping.
I installed them. I didn't have very much wire so the resistors are just hanging out of the plastic covers.
It would have been better, with a little more wire, could've secured them to
a metal support member thats closeby with a tie, wrap, act as a heat sink.
But they're ok for now.
The first one, I cut the socket off, and used crimp on connectors,
and it was a mess and took forever. In the middle of it all I drop the socket, and had to take the cover off the bottom to fish for it.
Arrgh.
SOOO....the 2nd one, I just used the soldering iron to melt the insulation on the wires going to the socket without cutting them.
Cleared away the plastic with my fingers.
Soldered wires to the resistors, put the wires around the exposed wires midway to the socket, electric taped everything up, and cut a little slot in the
plastic frisbee cover to allow the wires to get through to the outside.
DONE!!!
Here's an interesting pic.
Guess which is the LED and which is the bulb.
