Revhead Kev
Date Registered: 10-2006
Location: Mona Vale, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
TOTAL POSTS: 6355
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Re: LED Accessory Lights
Firstly, are you handy with electronics ?
You would need two circuits, one for the LED's and one for the Neon as they both are powered by different voltages. Don't know where you would source these or find a circuit to build yourself.
Secondly, I think it would be easiest to splice into the wires which actuate the lock and unlock of the driver's door and use these as signals for the two electronic control circuits for the LED's and Neon.
--- Kev X450(c) T30 Guru
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28/Jan/2009, 9:08 pm
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cooch t31
X-TRAIL HOLIC
Date Registered: 06-2008
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW
TOTAL POSTS: 5966
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Re: LED Accessory Lights
The circuit is already there.
The interior light circuit, they fade after you open your Exy. All you have to do is splice into that.
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29/Jan/2009, 5:11 am
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Revhead Kev
Date Registered: 10-2006
Location: Mona Vale, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
TOTAL POSTS: 6355
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Re: LED Accessory Lights
quote: cooch t31 wrote:
The circuit is already there.
The interior light circuit, they fade after you open your Exy. All you have to do is splice into that.
I would not advise doing that.
This circuit for the doors is controlled by the Time Control Unit which controls many other items in the Xtrail interior. It will be electronically controlled to dim the interior lights from the door switch input and will have a maximum loading which if exceded could not just blow the fuse but open circuit the controlling transistor and not work, needing an expensive replacement.
Replacing the interior lights with LED's is OK but adding extra load ontothis circuit is asking for trouble.
The other point to note is the operation of the circuit for the interior lights.
Sure the lights come on when the door is unlocked, but they will not come on when the door is locked, so it does not completely do what Budgie8 wants.
--- Kev X450(c) T30 Guru
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29/Jan/2009, 12:43 pm
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