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Originally Posted by Mike_E_P
ehmmm, does this work on the mkI?
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You can change any of your regular DC bulb with LED's. You need to know the source voltage, voltage drop across LED or LED's, and the LED target miliamps. If you are wiring multiple LED's... then you need to determine series or parallel. This information tells you what limiting resistor to use. All of this makes a difference.
You can start a fire if you are not careful with LED's. Usually fire is the result of not limiting the voltage with the right resistor.
Do a google for LED resisitor calculator. Here's a pretty cool one with diagrams.
http://www.metku.net/index.html?path...calc/index_eng
I did the ignition, lighter, and ashtray in my MR2. I didn't even know there was a write-up for this. I guess I wasn't as orginal as I thought.
I started to do the heater control... but, decided it was best to leave it alone. Way too complicated for me! But, I've also done the rear trunk and thinking of wiring up some in parallel in the engine bay (but afraid of heat). I'm doing the frunk next... with either a pressure switch or magnetic swich? Anyway, I'm just trying to say, a lot is possible with LED's. They take a fraction of the power as regular light bulbs, so you don't have to worry about wire capacity or draining batteries... and they last for a really long time.