How can i hook up 2 LED strips to my car's battery?

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i've already tightened and correctly placed the LED strips under the headlights of my car, but now the wires are just laying on top of the engine, waiting to be hooked up correctly. 

How can i hook them up so that when my normal lights are on, so are they? because i know that if i directly hook them up to the battery they will stay on ALL the time, even when the car is turned off (or so ive read). So where do i put the wires? im not very fluent with electric engineering and all that so i don't know how to use fuses and stuff so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! :)

-Kevin.

Dan · Accepted Answer

Connect the positive wire from your LED strips to the power wire at the headlight when the low beams are on. Connect the other wire to ground.

? · Answer

You'll want 12v leds. There will not be adequate current to run anything requiring 120v/240v off a 12v battery. A 12v led strip can hyperlink instantly to the battery and it'll work and draw the ampage it wants, nonetheless i might propose hanging it via a relay. Ive wired up quite a lot of vehcle electrics spotlights, leds and many others. In the event you seem on ebay there are various variations of 12v automobile accent lighting fixtures and you must be competent to seek out strips with a flasher unit, if now not, buy seperately. I established some amber restoration leds which price about a tenner into my final truck, and the flasher unit, with several inbuilt patterns may also be hooked up to any 12v circuit, or led strip/mild. I might watching on ebay see if there is something that meets your requirements or will also be made to do so. Make certain it is 12v else it'll now not work.

David · Answer

Don't want to read all that, but please don't install those extremely gay led strips, they're not cool.

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How can i hook up 2 LED strips to my car's battery?

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