Then I also added them to the sides of the center console

 

I think this is a good diagram.

 

What guage of wire would be good to use if you are splicing into the 12V outlets?

on the LED that i found that say 12V, 30mA, it has a 24 AWG wire on it but it just seems so thin. The thing with this light is that it has a resistor on it already. so it will have to stay in the plastic housing it came in. The LED wire leads are super short as it is. So i am thinking of putting these under the vents and above the climate controls. just some ambient lighting and maybe a couple red ones down under by my feet.


At the same time as the red ones, i am going to install a second circuit with white lights that are a little more usable when finding things.

I found these at radioshack:

They fit standard sized LEDs. I hopefully plan to install these behind the visors on the windshield cross bar. I hope they well work, havent checked out the angles of the frame and the obstruction of the visor along with my vision impairedness.

 

Here's some more for an example

 

anyone suggest an appropriate wire gauge??????

 

Something really high it doesnt need to be a thick wire at all... LED's draw hardly any power at all...

 

Anywhere between 14 - 22 gauge

I'm running 14 right now though

 

22 or 24 AWG will be fine. These are LEDs. they don't draw much at all. If you group a lot of them together then run 20 to your power source. In that sentence "a lot" mean a few dozen.

Mjkrakow: If you use the red style under the dash make sure you can't see the lens when it is installed. If the lens is in your line of sight it might be distracting.

 

I replaced my two bulbs up front with LEDs. The one in the cargo area was upgraded with a 32 LED board. Lights up like day time.

 

how hard was it to do, what led's did u use. was it a direct swap? i know nothing