LED Overhead Light?

[dalaster88]

Has anyone changed out the overhead Cathode with LEDs? If so, how did you wire them up? Or did you get a blue cathode replacement, and where did you get them from?

[MOMO]

overhead cathode?
we dont have cathodes in our overhead, do we?
they are just regular incandescent bulbs.

[madcustomz]

i dont think he knows what a cathode is.Yes, we have regular incandescent bulbs. but im sure if you wanted to you could wire up any color cathode or led's in there. Its not hard actually i had a srtobe light in my last car (never do that). Its just like wireing up some lights anywere else in your car.

[dalaster88]

sorry, dont know exactly what im talking about. But, if I were to wire up a LED, which side would i need the resistor on?

[Honzo]

I have a red one in my car. I got it from superbrightleds.com
Product Listing - CAR (http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=CAR&keywords=&cart_id=4462478.7441&next=50)
go down to the item named "4410-x9 LED Festoon bulb"
that's what you need, just select the color and you're ready to go!

[madcustomz]

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb30/madcustomz/litlpo_PoweredByWallWart1.png

[madcustomz]

make sure you get the right size resistor

[Honzo]

if you plan on wiring up leds instead, this is a good tool for finding the correct value for the resistor
LED series parallel array wizard (http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz)

[dalaster88]

thanks for your help, Ill fix it up tomarrow!