Footwell LED's
Hey guys,
I'm looking to wire up some LED's to the foot well and under the seats in my SV8. I was considering just tapping into the interior light so when you unlock / open doors they turn on with the interior light then considered wiring them to a switch instead. I figured since I wouldn't be driving around with the LED's on it is a wiser option to have it hooked up to only come on when I unlock car / open doors e.t.c. but then figured if I had a switch I can turn them on and off at will.
Has anyone wired up foot well LED's or neons, and which options did you choose / why?
I have mine wired up to the interior light switch, looks good.
Cost me about $100 all up to get them wired in by my auto electrician inc cost of the leds.
Cheers and good luck with the install
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Originally Posted by showbags
I was thinking of doing that, but if I can just tap into the wiring in the A Pillar and run cabling under scuff pads it would be a 15 minute job (no soldering, just clip adapters from JayCar), and will only cost ~$50 for the LED's and clips. :-)
When I get around to it will let you know how it goes.
Scotch Locks?
SILVERFOX
It's been done to death on here. There is heaps of good info. Try a Google custom search of the forums.
Cheers.
'Ah well, I suppose it had to come to this.'
Not sure if that's what they're called, JayCar call them Contact Connecters. Can check them out here.
Yeah, I've looked at all the info and am going to wire it to the courtesy light. My question was more so why people choose courtesy light or switch.
I'm considering doing this myself also, but was thinking amount slightly modding the sunglasses holder and adding another separate switch so i can choose to either run the Footwell LEDs via the courtesy lights or turn it on separately, the other switch will act as a bypass more so than anything, if its on, the LEDs are on all the time, if its off, they are controlled along with the courtesy lights/switch.
My only issue is trying to find a switch that do what i want, eg. cut off the power coming from the courtesy lights switch when this switch is on the 'on' position as i don't want the chance of both switches providing power to the LEDs at the same time and frying them or something worse, etc.
Hook it up to the ignition barrel lighting to save pulling trim off
I was thinking of doing this too, but was unsure on how to go about it / where to mount switch in VY.
I didn't even think about this, thanks for that idea! (I guess I will still need to pull trim off to get wiring over to passenger side), or is there enough gap up near firewall? I haven't had a good look as of yet.
SILVERFOX
My red front ones come on with the headlights but I have a switch on them too. Also have some in the back, on with ignition, seperate switch. I put seperate white LEDs in the front footwells that come on with doors.
Etc, etc small ones which give a dim glow in the console, small white LED in sunny holder,blah blah.
The main thing is being able to switch off the main ones when you need to.
'Ah well, I suppose it had to come to this.'
Yeah. That's why I was thinking of connecting it to courtesy light (since you don't need the floor glowing while driving). Might have a look into how I would wire it up to a switch also.
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Why not just run them on the current switch...
Connect the positive on the lights to a constant +12V wire. Connect the negative to the negative ground in the switch, in the VY holder it is the green wire from memory. Easy down, footwell lights that come on when the interior lights are on.
This is what I was going to do, just wire it up to the lead that runs to the interior light, that way when I unlock doors / open doors they come on.
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Yep, will work fine. If you want to have them off at some time, just put an additional switch on the negative wire between the interior light and the LEDs.
You mean on, not off right? Because they will automatically go off when the car turns on (just like the courtesy lights).
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Rough As
i was thinking of doing this, i've got 2 green l.e.d. sticks lying around, so where do i find the interior light wire?
"HULK"
Depending on how much wiring locations change throughout the commodore generations, but in VN - VX models the interior light wires are in the driver kick panel and driver B pillar (the pillar at the rear of the driver's window). Hope that helps
I set mine on 3 way toggle switch all 4 footwells wired to it, UP - ON, CENTER - OFF, DOWN - WITH BASS, and a 2nd switch for the boot, UP - ON, Center standard boot light turns them on, DOWN, With bass..
With bass is just for wank factor at night..
SILVERFOX
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Yeh, VY is the same. I pulled the B pillar trim off, located and tested the correct interior light wire, then when I knew the correct colour, I just tapped into it under driver's scuff plate.
'Ah well, I suppose it had to come to this.'
"HULK"
Sup with the \n \n ?
SILVERFOX
Dunno, it's been coming up on it's own on this stupid Thub I'm using, as my computer's carked.
'Ah well, I suppose it had to come to this.'
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