How to connect LED strip to headlight?

sevenhills

AndyMc..... wrote: »

Is there a need for parking lights to be bright?

Sidelights are still the best for that half light at dusk and dawn and in heavy overcast cloud, especially in urban areas.

The obsessive headlamp fetish causes too much glare for drivers to be able to see other road users beside vehicles, and especially behind a strongly lit car, I refer mainly to people and cycles, often poorly lit.

Ganga

Some of the LED lights that you purchase now ( you see them round the headlight bezel on vans and cars ) only come on when the battery rises above a certain voltage and go out when it drops,ie come on when engine running and go off when engine turned off,wired direct to the battery.

System

Ganga wrote: »

Some of the LED lights that you purchase now ( you see them round the headlight bezel on vans and cars ) only come on when the battery rises above a certain voltage and go out when it drops,ie come on when engine running and go off when engine turned off,wired direct to the battery.

Err no. They're switched to come on by the ECU.

King_Mustard

droopsnoot wrote: »

We don't know where the OP is intending to fit the LED strip.

In the footwells.

AdrianC

...then it might make a lot more sense to connect it to the dash lights. Or just put a ciggy plug on it, and turn it on when you can't remember where you left your feet.

gord115

The title of the thread reads " How to connect LED strip to headlight?"
What is OP doing with headlights in his footwells?

Seriously though, you need to connect the red wire to the sidelight feed(the wire that shows 12 volt only when sidelights are on),and the other wire to a good earth.

Lorian

Why would anyone need to light up their footwells while driving along? Im sure I'd find it really annoying.

photome

Lorian wrote: »

Why would anyone need to light up their footwells while driving along? Im sure I'd find it really annoying.

Many new cars have the footwells lit.

My focus does and I think our Leon does but don’t drive it very often so not 100% sure

I wouldn’t be fitting LED strips though if they weren’t lit

bob_a_builder

Why would anyone need to light up their footwells while driving along?

They do it in all the movies which involve driving, even in the case when the driver is supposed to be 'invisibly' tailing a suspects car

no point paying for an expensive actor if we can't see his face

gord115

Lorian wrote: »

Why would anyone need to light up their footwells while driving along? Im sure I'd find it really annoying.

He doesn't want to light the footwells,read the title.