08-16-2007, 12:20 AM
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Captain Funpark
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^^Then I really don't want to get rid of it. lol
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08-16-2007, 12:23 AM
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sorry, I tried to over-simplify lol
leave the black wire on the switch to keep the switch light...the other 2 are still source to battery, positive to led's
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08-16-2007, 12:29 AM
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no, it won't. the method i use doesn't have lights on the switches. listen to waltz. hes got it right for a lighted switch.
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08-16-2007, 12:34 AM
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does this help?  |
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08-16-2007, 12:37 AM
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^^those lights won't work...you have opens all over the place!!  
j/k....follow that diagram |
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08-16-2007, 12:39 AM
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its just a shaky soldering hand.. i swear! |
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08-16-2007, 02:45 AM
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I am amazed at how many people on here are giving such false info about this switch, so here goes.
The perticular switch in the picture has one red wire as the source (goes to power) one red wire that goes to your load (in this case the LEDs) and the black wire goes to ground to allow THE SWITCH to light up when you turn it on. THAT IS THE ONLY FUNCTION OF THE BLACK WIRE!!!!!!! If you do not hook up the black wire, the ONLY thing that will happen is that the SWITCH will not light up when you turn it on.
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08-16-2007, 03:36 AM
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it's not that hard to hook up a switch
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08-16-2007, 08:14 AM
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kilroy.. thats what we've been saying for the past few posts. at first we didn't know the switch had a light on it, so we were telling him how to wire a spdt switch.... instead of an illuminated spst
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08-16-2007, 08:18 AM
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Captain Funpark
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SIUlero
^^those lights won't work...you have opens all over the place!!
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That and he forgot the resister for the LED....
But seriously, that's how I had it hooked up and it didn't work. So I don't know what to do. That whole semester of electronics class isn't helping. lol I did what I was taught to do.... I'll tinker around with it later today after work and see if I can figure it out.
Last edited by cavaliers60 : 08-16-2007 at 08:20 AM.
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08-16-2007, 09:09 AM
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is it possible that you accidentally hooked it up without (or before) the resistor and blew the strip?
i've accidentally done that my fair share of times...
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08-16-2007, 10:00 AM
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POLARITY!!!!
Yes no ?
I wired mine to my switch, using the ground and + on the switch itself..
I would try that..
The led strip will be polarity sensitive..
and LED strips do not need resistors as they are electrically "right" for 12 volts..
and they also have small resistors built in..
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08-16-2007, 11:40 AM
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What wire do you have the resistors on? The pos. lead or the neg. lead? To get mine to work i had to put the resistor on the Neg. lead from the LED's. And did you accidentally hook up the LED's w\o a resistor?
But if you got these ( http://www.oznium.com/led-flex-strips), you don't need a resistor.
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08-16-2007, 12:17 PM
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^resistors don't matter which side you put them on... you might have had a bad connection, or the wires on the wrong side when you tried it the first time...
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08-16-2007, 09:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by teflone
POLARITY!!!!
Yes no ?
I wired mine to my switch, using the ground and + on the switch itself..
I would try that..
The led strip will be polarity sensitive..
and LED strips do not need resistors as they are electrically "right" for 12 volts..
and they also have small resistors built in..
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My dad suggested that, so when I have time and daylight again, I'll give that a shot... I will be running ground from the switch to the LED strip. I think that's what you are talking about. lol
As far as them shorting out, they still work cause after all this, I hooked them up to a 9v battery and they worked just fine.... Although, I don't think the illumination is very good... But I'll wait till it's all done... |
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08-16-2007, 10:19 PM
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lol wow, i should have chimmed in a long time ago for this one hahaha
i have illumated switches in my car (4 of them actually) i have the top lead going directly to the 12v power source, the middle is where i put the positive leads from the LED's, and the bottom is the ground which of course your ground is going to have the negative leads from your LED's connected to.....this is what i have, this is what works for me to get my LED's to light up AND have the switches light up as well
doubt that will help any or i may have just repeated what has already been said so hope it helps somewhat
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08-16-2007, 10:25 PM
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Captain Funpark
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^^ Yeah you repeated. lol But that's cool. Thanks for the help though! I'm going to get it done once I get the time.
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08-17-2007, 10:11 PM
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Captain Funpark
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So another update.... I'm not too happy at all.... I wired it just like you all said, and still no results... And I ended up shorting out something.... My switch light doesn't work. I'm hoping I just shorted out the circuit for the 12v plug and not the switch. Where's the fuse for the 12v circuit?
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08-17-2007, 10:50 PM
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depends on where your wiring it to...
what wires are you using as your "main" power?
Most of the time, i ended up blowing the fuse on the passanger side, in the top left of the fuse panel.. i had to have replaced that fuse at least 12 times by now....  |
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08-17-2007, 10:56 PM
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Captain Funpark
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I'm using that 12v plug in to wire up my switch. So the positive on that is my main power source.
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