Installation of LED Ribbon on the Car

Until a few decades ago, LEDs were only used as indicator lights. But today, thanks to its characteristics, versatility and beautiful glow, LED-technology every year are gaining popularity in the field of lighting. Consumers are increasingly moving to the use of LED lamps and luminaires, as well as LED strips, which have been applied in advertising and decorative lighting, and actively used by designers all over the world.

In addition to the design goals of interior room lighting, LED strip steel (e.g. the 12V LED strip lights) is widely used in the automotive industry, to enhance the standard lighting cars. Some manufacturers of modern cars already in the basic equipment of the models set the LED backlighting in size and dashboard. However, for many motorists, who want to give your vehicle a unique look and add functionality to the standard interior lighting, boot or body, this is not enough. So they resorted to self-tuning of the car, using the LED strip, by which additional lighting can be set in the most unusual places, even where it did not exist before.

For successful device further highlight the car must follow these steps:

1. Determine the place of installation of LEDs;

2. Cut the tape only in the right place;

3. Qualitatively fulfill its connection to the onboard network.

There are two ways to connect the LED strip: no interference in the electric car circuit and with a hole in it. When laying the tape should be selected segments of the desired value, which are cut to the ground and fold sequentially connected together by soldering the wires through the connectors. It is necessary to strictly observe the polarity, but in the case of improper connection LEDs will not go down. If the light does not work, you will need to check the correctness of the connection. Places soldering, to prevent ingress of water, treated with silicone. Connect LED ribbon through the controller (in the passenger car - 12 V) to the power supply using the adapter into the vehicle's cigarette lighter. To this end, a standard telephone charge soldered wires from the LED strip, with one wire is fixed to a fuse, and the second - bypassing the regulator to rule with an iron lug. And you can use the RGB LED connector.

To implement the second method of connecting the tape with a hole in the car's electrical circuit, only need two additional wires. In order not to reverse the polarity, it is best to use the red and black wires. Red is soldered to the "plus" ribbons, black - a "minus". And then solder joints should be treated with sealant. Black wire is held under the skin to the negative terminal of the battery and the red through the switch - to the positive. The switch is installed inside the vehicle so that it to be easy to get.