Footwell lighting, (Leds)

[lozz]

looking for some ideas:

ive wired up some Led lights in the Footwells, at present ive wired into the Ilum wires on the ciggy lighter, (Temp)
they work ok when the lights are on, there just a tad bit bright driving about with them on,

im thinking of taking a negative feed from the interior light, the one on the roof,
or wouid it be best to go into the live one,
ive heard, using a feed from these can play Havoc with the bsi on these french critters ?

any ideas on best place to wire into,
or is the above best option,


thanks inadvance,

[lozz]

How does the door locks works,
how does the light go out if theres no switch ?

ive had the door mech apart and theres no contacts or any sighn of anywhere it gets a contact from ?

[RayneR]

i think the live light turns on and off by the door mechanism, if you haven't noticed, when you just pull the handle on the door the light will come on right away... i have also some leds to put in my footwell.. but they are blue i think i'm gonna buy some white ones ..

[lozz]

Cheers
iwill have another look later and see if ican work out what trigers the light on & off,


ive put Blue led lights in mine, they dont look to bad,

ithink blue is good in a blue car , Iwas looking for Red LEDs but couidnt find any

[Welly]

If you have fancy 'Theatre Lighting' I don't think LED's work i.e. as the voltage reduces they just flicker or go off suddenly.

Didn't Farmer try this and the BSi went bananas?

[highlander]

Toby406 (a Japanese member of the Coupe Club) got LED footwell lighting to work.

Then again, he also changed out just about every traditional filament bulb on his car and replaced them with LEDs, with the exception of the headlamp bulbs.

[lozz]

Ive sorted it,
thanks all,

ijust went into the Negative wire on the interior light,
theres no flicker or problems with the Bsi,

("And they dont look like Theatre lights , )

[RayneR]

If i connect it to the ashtray light will i be cool too ?

[lozz]

If i connect it to the ashtray light will i be cool too ?

Yup shouid be ok mate,

[RayneR]

If i connect it to the ashtray light will i be cool too ?

Yup shouid be ok mate,

Thanks, i hope it doesn't get the BSI mad, because i have my auto dim rear mirror connected in that place too

[lozz]

If i connect it to the ashtray light will i be cool too ?

Yup shouid be ok mate,

Thanks, i hope it doesn't get the BSI mad, because i have my auto dim rear mirror connected in that place too

idont think it be aproblem, as the led dont use much volts, atleast the ones im using dont, igot mine from acompany that make spotlights (Ring) ive stayed away from the china-ebay ones,

they get abit anoying tho when there on constant, id wire up a switch if iwas you,
they look good but the Glare they give off isnt good when driving,

[RayneR]

Well, i could try to enable the leds only when doors are opened...like connecting them into the interior live light.

[lozz]

ive took a live from somewhere else,
and took the neg-from the interior light,

its not caused anyproblems so far,
reason ive done this as irember Fps thread which got me thinking wether its drain on the live wire on the interior light that causes the bsi to go crazy,

French cars baffle me,
give me aford and ican wire up anything on it, withought these kind of problems

[RayneR]

hmm, my interior lights are all led/mini smd's, and got no problems so far ... the only problem is that they remain a tidy bit bright even when they supposedly should be off 100%, well i'm not bothered about it cuz the light doesn't light anything only the plastic

[FarmerPug]

surprisingly (because i did it) my footwell lights haven't missed a beat, with their crazy LDR system of operation, i had to take apart the overhead light to do some tinkering ie putting black sealant round the central light, so light from the other smaller lights didn't leak in and turn it on, and for the first week there was a bit of adjustments with the variable resistor so it went on only with the bulb and not the outside light.
But if you dont have bsi controlled overhead lighting id think its safe enough to wire it straight up, or at least to a relay.

The next project is to extend the lights to do the footwells of the rear seats.