::.. Installed LEDs Yesterday

[Qube]

What do you mean by reverse? Does the LED need anything other than a positive and a ground?

Right, but the positive and ground is 'reversed' on our cars light sockets (other things too?), that's why the contacts/wires need to be swapped. An incandescent bulb doesn't care about polarity, but an LED does.

[Espen]

Hmm Im kinda not understanding what you mean.

Take a mulitmeter and measure both wires against ground or the negative battery pole, if you are gettin +12v (light must be turned on) then you have the wire that carrys the postive signal. You could also "ohm" it and when you get 0 ohms you have the wire that is carrying ground/negative.

[Qube]

Hmm Im kinda not understanding what you mean.

Take a mulitmeter and measure both wires against ground or the negative battery pole, if you are gettin +12v (light must be turned on) then you have the wire that carrys the postive signal. You could also "ohm" it and when you get 0 ohms you have the wire that is carrying ground/negative.

As far as I know (and tested), our cars use a positive ground for lighting circuits. This means that standard off-the-shelf LED bulbs wired for negative ground lighting won't work... unless you reverse the wiring in the bulb bayonet or the actual snap connector wires.

[Rustam]

As far as I know (and tested), our cars use a positive ground for lighting circuits. This means that standard off-the-shelf LED bulbs wired for negative ground lighting won't work... unless you reverse the wiring in the bulb bayonet or the actual snap connector wires.

I am puzzled by the "positive ground" words. Do you mean the common connection is positive?

Maybe I can help with the following:
Bentley schematic shows pin number 1 to be common - I guess it's reasonable to assume that your cars use this pin for "positive ground" (common).
Pin 2 - front turn signal
Pin 3 - front park light

[ProZak]

POST PICS!

And a price list or website would be cool...

-Zak-

[Qube]

Excuse the crappy quality... taking pics from camera phone in the rain

Likewise, it's good in real life. Unfortunately they are a bit expensive in my opinion.



Right now you can get them at autolumination.com, but it's pricy. I'm hoping by going as a distributor, I can get them AND offload them for at least 25% off.