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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 11:42 PM
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is there a good place to wire up some leds under the hood? i tried splicing into the parking lights and the leds wouldnt work for some reason. not a fuse problem bc park lights still work!?
Old Feb 16, 2012 | 04:54 AM
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Directly into the battery w/ a fuse and just run a switch through the firewall, so that way you can turn it on and off from inside the car.
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well it has a remote for on/off...so just put an inline fuse and then straight to battery?
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yup, for grounding, you could go to the battery if wires are long enough, if not just ground it to any bare metal.
Old Feb 16, 2012 | 10:57 PM
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if you spliced correctly they would work; whatever method you used to "splice" probably didn't make enough contact on the wires. btw, the green wire = positive wire iirc.

as for the ground you can also splice that into the neg wire as well or ground to any metal point.
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thanks guys...yea the directions say splice into a positive and a negative
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