???Help making front reflector LED's parking light and blinker???

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ZMEDIC13
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I have a 2007 350z and I'm going to be adding LED's to the stock front reflectors. I'm using 3 yellow LED's per reflector and originally I was going to connect the top and bottom LED to the parking lights and the middle LED to the blinker. Is there anyway that I can hook up all 3 LED's so that they come on with the parking lights and also work as a blinker? I would like for them to work as blinker only during the day but be on at night when headlights are turned on, but continue to be a blinker at night as well. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


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Hey medic. I have my LED lights rigged up in a similar way on an offroad truck that I'm building, but it's for the running lights and brake lights in the rear.

Basically what I did was run a resistor in-line with the running light wire so that the LED is dimmer than when I press the brake pedal. When I press the brake full voltage is applied to the LED and it lights up brighter, since there is no resistor in-line with the brake wire.

If you do it my way your running lights will be a bit dimmer than if you had them straight to 12V, but when you hit your turn signal they will flash bright. You will likely have to play with resistor values to get the brightness elvels that you want.

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Thanks.


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