Led Help

[bkathsalero]

so i have about 400 leds all ready to go, with resistor,power,and groung wires... now im stuck.. i want to have all of them go off of one switch, so how can i get all 400 of those power wires to one power, and all 400 grounds to one ground? heard of using a distrubution block and i have one for my old underbody, but it only has 4 outputs? any help would be appreciated.. and maybe a link to the hardware i need

and if this is a newb question which im sure it is :lol: , its beacuse this is my first time messin with leds

[jayson_waltz]

well for one thing you only need all the power wires running off one switch, the grounds can go anywhere. All i did was just run a power wire from the switch, across under the dash and down the pass. side, then tapped in by the switch again and ran one down the drivers side. then you don't have near as far to run the individual power wires to from the led's. the led's don't take very much draw at all so you don't even need a dist. block or big wire, just tap into the 2 you already ran.

its pretty basic stuff once you sit down and just start doing it.

[cherrington17]

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103229&cp=&sr=1&origkw=barrier+strip&kw=barrier+strip&parentPage=search
and
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103227&cp=&sr=1&origkw=barrier+strip&kw=barrier+strip&parentPage=search

will solve all your issues.

[bizarre179]

^I somehow knew what part you were going to post there... lol.

It does work. I have a couple of them in my car and they keep things very well organized.

[cherrington17]

i think i have 6. :D

[bkathsalero]

do u have any pics of them hooked up so i can get a basic idea?