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| Literati914 |
 Nov 22 2024, 05:10 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,733 Joined: 16-November 06 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 7,222 Region Association: Southwest Region  |
I just hooked up my 3rd brake light and so far, I'm a little underwhelmed. The LED strip (which is advertised as being great for turn signals, parking lights, and brakes including 3rd brake lights), comes with a 3-wire adapter so that you can run it so that it's also on when the driving lights are on (pos 1 on light switch, +2 of course), and that's how I hooked it up. So, dim when not depressing the brakes is expected. However, even then it's way dimmer than the incandescent tail-lights are. BTW, this LED strip 3rd light is piggy-backing off of the outter most rear parking bulbs (which are small incandescent atm) - could that be the problem? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
When on-the-brakes it's a tab brighter but definitely not what it should be. Any ideas as to what the cause may be? thx |
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| Spoke |
Nov 22 2024, 10:41 PM
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Jerry Group: Members Posts: 7,085 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 3,031 Region Association: None 
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As long as you have 12V on the LED, it should be at its brightest. This is the only wiring issue you could have.
What is the part number on the strip you used? Here's how I installed and connected the 3rd brake light on my 914: Spoke's 3rd Brake Installation  |
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