LED Bar

[Black Truck 10 10+ year member]

Im about to install my LED bar in my sub box. Does it need to be fused or do LED's only draw power they need or how exactly does that work. My plan was to cut into the wire, and then take the positive and negative to my Distribution blocks which are fused.

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[dumple 5,000+ posts]

fuse for safety

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

most people fuse anything that is coming directly from a (12v) power source. Being that this is led you need a very tiny fuse, possibly 1amp and can use even very small wire. That is the whole point of LED. Small consumption and virtually eternal life if fed proper power.

I would use a toggle switch somewhere. If you showed me your ride and system in the middle of the day and were fired up on LEDs.. I would call you on a fail before you even turned the music on.

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

u'd be safe if it wasn't fused. LED's take somethin' like 1.5 volts a piece!

You can just wire it into a factory fuse somewhere probably. Like the ACC fuse.

But you prob don't need one. Not a lot of chance of LED's randomly drawing a massive amount of current.

And I also suggest a toggle. Better for aesthetics.

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

u'd be safe if it wasn't fused. LED's take somethin' like 1.5 volts a piece!You can just wire it into a factory fuse somewhere probably. Like the ACC fuse.

But you prob don't need one. Not a lot of chance of LED's randomly drawing a massive amount of current.

And I also suggest a toggle. Better for aesthetics.

If they run at 1.5 volts a piece, do you run 8 of them in series then?

 

[Black Truck 10 10+ year member]

What type of fuse to pick up? Im about to run to radioshack and I will also be picking up a toggel, will I also need a relay or does the toggel do the trick?