Glow Wire Neon
2009
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Wiring led strip lights in truck interior?
i have 10' of led strip lights in 2' strips i also have 2 9" neon tubes that came with a switch box and 12v plug. now is here i get confused. i want to take all these lights and just conncect all the + and - wires together and put them to the togle switch. now ive heard that i need a resistor for the lights. is this true? and with the neon tubes can i wire all the leds to it. i want to because it has a beat control finction.
so what im thinking is wiring all led strips to neon tube controler cutting off the 12v plug and wiring to a toggle switch. id leave out the switch but i want a bunch of blue led switches to glow aswell
please let me know if this will work asap thanks
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all the lights can be wired together + and - to a toggle switch. you dont need a resistor. but you do have a problem to consider. the power all those lights will pull may be more than the toggle switch and the main power wire are rated for, this includes putting a bunch of lights on the beat controller. you need to add up the amp draw of all the lights combined and get a switch and power wire that can handle that amount of amperage. you also need to make sure the beat controller can handle that many lights or it will just burn out. if the lights dont list their amp draw divide the wattage by 12 (12v car voltage) to get amps. 6watt light, 6 divided by 12 equals .5, so a 6 watt light pulls half an amp. if all the lights pull 10 amps, make sure you get switches and wire big enough, a 12ga wire can handle 20 amps, but a lot of those lighter plug things use 20 gauge or 22 gauge, which can only handle about 3 to 5 amps. and of course check to see how much wattage (or amperage) the beat controller can handle and dont hook up more lights than that. plus if the beat controller has the transformer for the neon tubes built into it you cant hook up the leds to it at all because its a different voltage for the neon tubes than the leds. if the neon tubes work hooked up without being connected the the controller, then its built into the tubes so thats not a problem.
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