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Post  Aperture Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:20 am

Guys

wanting to run about 8 leds on the hilux. tried to hook them up in-line and powered them staight off a 2s lipo.

only trouble was that they came on dim.

any ideas as to how best to rub them in sequence and get full power to all lights ??

cheers
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Post  WIDELOAD Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:30 am

What voltage LEDs are they scott?

Also do they have resistors inline or are they just on bare wires?
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Post  Aperture Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:17 pm

Hey troy

not sure about the voltage but each one of them has a resistor on the '+' wire into it.
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Post  WIDELOAD Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:26 pm

Without knowing what voltage they are exactly its a bit hard to work out. Most likely they are 3v LEDs with a resistor to work off 6v.

I would try hooking them all up in parallel (+ve to +ve, -ve to -ve) and see how they go.

If you hook them up in series (+ve to -ve to +ve to -ve etc) would make them run dim.
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Post  scottb Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:02 am

What are you building a Xmas tree Scotty....ha ha lol! ......only joking mate sounds like a plan. Are you still using the Hilux?
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