I want my LED tubes to come on when I open the door.

[Synyster97XLT 10+ year member]

Reading is always nice. Seriously though. You probably should read a little bit. I am lucky enough to have an electrician for a neighbor that taught me a bunch of shit, but you may actually want to read. Understanding positive and negative is essential to anything electrical. Before you ever install anything, you always want to make sure that you have a good understanding of 12volt electronics. And check out the build logs, I have learned quite a bit from those since I started.

 

[ccab 10+ year member]

i'm not trying to be a douche but if you can't understand my directions you should not be attempting anything on the car yourself. I don't know how much more Mickey Mouse of a directions you want. Just b/c you keep asking questions does not mean you will get to the "Eureka" point with this. you either need to get t-taps with male quick disconnects or the fuse taps I pointed out to you. without those things you'll have to either get a relay or run a dedicated power wire with a switch. if you don't get those 2 senarios than you need to rethink you working on your car and get a couple of books and do some reading before attempting.

I can get it..its just takin some time..Im just trying to figure out how you connect each of the positive wires on the tube to only 1 wire that will go to the battery and the same for the negatives. thats it. as soon as I figure that out ill be good.

 

[Synyster97XLT 10+ year member]

aight. ill do that and they are cathodes..I got recommendations from plenty of people to get those instead so hopefully they will work better.

Wait...LEDs aren't cathodes. Did you make this thread before you decided which one to get? It's not a big deal, I was just wondering.

 

[ccab 10+ year member]

yes..I just put "LED" instead of cathodes..

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

I can get it..its just takin some time..Im just trying to figure out how you connect each of the positive wires on the tube to only 1 wire that will go to the battery and the same for the negatives. thats it. as soon as I figure that out ill be good.

you're LED tubes will have a positive and negative more than likely coing out of 1 end, you just take 2 wires (same polarity) and twist them together and put them into the connector and crimp. if you're lucky it'll have a transformer instead than you just connect all the tubes and to the transformer. positive feed to the transformer than negative to the transformer.

 

[Synyster97XLT 10+ year member]

Did you buy a kit? Or just single tubes?

 

[ccab 10+ year member]

I bought the cathode kit. http://www.oznium.com/cathode-kit