Only purchased them about 10 days ago and they already arrived. Tried them on the car battery and they are extremely bright. The plan is to stick them on the underside of the engine hatch all around (4, one each side)... They have sticky glue on the back side AND are completely waterproof... Anyway, for the price (~$13 for four strips including shipping), I think they are amazing... I bought the white ones but they come in blue too...
OK, everybody read carefully, I believe the reason the light strips were cheap is because some of them have the positive and negative wires reversed. IE. Half my LED's worked and I know I had them hooked up correctly so I pulled two sets off that did not light up and reversed the polarity of the wires and now all four light up. These LED's will only work one way. It matters which is positive and which is negative. If you hook them up backwards, they won't light... but they also won't be killed either so no problem...
So, please check the polarity of the black and red wires coming from the LED strip. Some are reversed but are easily corrected...
Just installed mine and they are on a switch in the engine bay. See photos below... I powered them off a bus that stays powered up when the MBSS is off.
One more point... the LED backside 3M adhesive does not stick well to the underside of the hatch even though I cleaned them up and scrubbed with some rubbing alcohol. So, I sprayed the back side of the strips with 3M 77 super adhesive and the underside where the lights were installed. In addition, I sprayed at other locations under the hatch edge and ended up taping into the adhesive the wire runs. Worked out quite well and I avoided getting underneath and drilling holes from below up through the deck.
Attached files [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26554-LEDfrnt.JPG[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26555-LEDon.jpg[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26556-LEDport.JPG[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26557-LEDstbd.jpg[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26558-noLED.JPG[/img]
OK, everybody read carefully, I believe the reason the light strips were cheap is because some of them have the positive and negative wires reversed. IE. Half my LED's worked and I know I had them hooked up correctly so I pulled two sets off that did not light up and reversed the polarity of the wires and now all four light up. These LED's will only work one way. It matters which is positive and which is negative. If you hook them up backwards, they won't light... but they also won't be killed either so no problem...
So, please check the polarity of the black and red wires coming from the LED strip. Some are reversed but are easily corrected...
Just installed mine and they are on a switch in the engine bay. See photos below... I powered them off a bus that stays powered up when the MBSS is off.
One more point... the LED backside 3M adhesive does not stick well to the underside of the hatch even though I cleaned them up and scrubbed with some rubbing alcohol. So, I sprayed the back side of the strips with 3M 77 super adhesive and the underside where the lights were installed. In addition, I sprayed at other locations under the hatch edge and ended up taping into the adhesive the wire runs. Worked out quite well and I avoided getting underneath and drilling holes from below up through the deck.
Attached files [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26554-LEDfrnt.JPG[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26555-LEDon.jpg[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26556-LEDport.JPG[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26557-LEDstbd.jpg[/img] [img]/media/kunena/attachments/vb/675277=26558-noLED.JPG[/img]
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