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Old 09-06-2005, 03:08 AM
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Hi folks! Here are some pics of the interior lights I have done so far on my 2005 Scion Xb. I put Blue LED's in the Air Vents, Cupholders and Dome Light. I also put Meteor Sticks under the Dash and under the seats wired to be solid all the time with no tranny. They give off an awesome glow when wired directly without the tranny's. Check it out and let me know what you think.







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Nice just did my dash lights too, is that the vrad dome light?
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looks good

blue is good
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No it is actually a homemade job on the domelight. I was thinking of posting some how to pics about how I did it in fact.

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looks awesome
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Oh man!! That is a sweet set up! Nice job!
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i like the lights in the air vents how did you do that
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Fresh. Good job on the dome light.
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i want to put some leds in my air vents as well. Where do u get leds like that
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Sweet, thats what I want to do but in red. I love the dome light.
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nice
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Originally Posted by preciousgem
No it is actually a homemade job on the domelight. I was thinking of posting some how to pics about how I did it in fact.

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John
That would be nice.
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what was the total cost of your project
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illegal in my state. Unless you run it during the day.
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i live in cali it is not illegal for the interior lighting it is illegal for the underbody neons
for the washer fluid sprayer lights the only colors it can be is yellow or white but for interior lighting it is perfectly legal
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I have a question. I've been scratching my head trying to figure it out house to connect all the lighting and were. There are 10 LED light that I need to connect, but also I want to dived the in 2 and has a switch for every 5. How? and were do I connect them to supply the power?
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how did you do the dome light? I really wanna do that to mine.
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That looks nice. On a side note, does anyone have a picture of the stock (factory optional) LEDs, other than the 3d image available at the Build-Your-Own site?

Two questions:

1) Where did you get the LEDs and how did you mount them?

2) What did you do with the wiring?
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Originally Posted by preciousgem
I also put Meteor Sticks under the Dash and under the seats wired to be solid all the time with no tranny. They give off an awesome glow when wired directly without the tranny's.
what do you mean by tranny's?
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Sorry about the delay in responding to all your questions folks, been really busy.

Anyway, when I said "tranny" I was refering to transformers. Meteor LED sticks come with transformers which make them do patterns, however in this case I didn't want that . I wanted them to light solid just like the rest of the LED's in the car so I hooked them directly without the tranformers. I purchased all the LED's in the car from Phil at Oznium.com and the whole project probably cost under $50.

As far as power, I tapped the power off of the cigarette lighter and ran through one of the the Gardener Bender GSW-45 switches that I stuck under the oven in those switch spaces.

Thanks,

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