LED Strip question

[Vahagn23]

Hi, I bought 2 LED strips one for each side in the front, but I have no clue how to wire them. Is there a guide here? im also taking the car to Nissan for maintanance, will they put it for me?

[Gr8dave37]

I got 4 of mine from Oznium.com and they basically come with the ground and the power wire. I wired mine to the dimmer switch for the dash lights.(purple is the power). It was really alot easier than it seems and I spent alot of time placing my strips so that they were not in view when you were in the seat..but gave plenty of light in the footwells.

I did a search, but couldn't find the particular post I was looking for. You can pop off the side panel of the dash adn lift the dimmer switch out from the side and wire it in there.

[Vahagn23]

Is it safe? there wont be any shorts or anything like that? Dont want to catch fire on the road, thanks for the reply btw

[matttail]

I also have a dimmer circuit you can buy from me. (link in sig) It's basically the same as just wiring the LEDs straight, but you can mount a small knob in the empty panel to the right of your power mirror adjuster that will let you dim your LEDs.

For mine I just take power from the back of the panel lights dimmer knob, so that the LEDs are only on when your running lights or head lights are on. I used a small wire splice kit from radio shack to get the power - there a part number in my post where I'm selling the dimmer.

Also Martin Roy wrote up a quide on mounting your lights and getting power. see the guide here. Hope that helps.

[Vahagn23]

thanks alot

[xtwoonamatchx]

if you wire to the dimmer, make sure you ground ( - ) to the MIDDLE black wire... and all you need to do to pop off the side panel is to take off the fuse box cover, and reach your hand in and push the panel from the inside, and it will come off... then unplug the harness to the dimmer, push in the power ( + ) [ usually a red wire or black with a white stripe] wires into the purple and the grounds into the middle black, make sure you push them into the connector real good, and wrap everything with electrical tape to make sure they dont come loose. thats the easiest way... and i highly doubt nissan will put them in for you.

[Vahagn23]

So if I wanted to connect one strip on each side, i could do it all to the dimmer?

Also is there a guide how to change the glove compartment light? Thanks

[Gr8dave37]

I did 4 9.5" strips to the dimmer, 2 front and 2 rear so you should have no problem