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Originally Posted by sleestak
wow, this thread is still going! w0ot. I may get bored and take a stab at doing this again, but this time I will tap the door switches. It just seems to be the cleanest and most effective solution.
Good luck aljenkins! Hope this works out for you...be sure to post up what you did, please.
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hello, best of luck, and do try again -
i have had preliminary sucess since we last spoke as well.
tapped the fader in the A pillar and brought it down to the floorboard as a branch circuit,
i now am in the EARLY stages of footwell lights, both front and rear, along with tastefull accent lights that fade as stock. nothing solid, just trials so far.
have to make sure NOT to exceed the original spec of the output of the circuit factoring in wire length and resistors and lights...
got one of two maplights in as well.
works well so far, i have a proper illumination of my footwells and some tastefull artistic accent lights without being "ghetto"
working on the trunk lighting now, and am about halfway through my tests with LED's in there.
just prototypes so far, nothing i would tell the world about yet.
all is smooth besides the trunklights, in which my early trials have suffered some setbacks due to shorts - from materials failures that have cropped up in a dead short. the tolerences in the body panels arent the same gap left to right and ive found that my circuits take the path of least resistance - through the body.
when you put the resistor on the negative, that tends to fry things as a short on ground bypasses the resistor and tends to give lots of ruined hardwerae and smoke. allong with a full 12V with unlimited current to the LED's
i have to work out new tools, materials and procedures to get adequate insulation that will stand up to the task.
next weekend ill have it sorted out and once i get it complete, pictures wont be less than a year or two away detailing how i did it.