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scytzoh
10-31-2007, 07:39 AM
i dont know if this is a noob question or not but here goes: i bought a led setup ment for a car from a liqidator place. its really cool it is as follows:
(1)cental hub thinngy with several slot plugs of different sizes. only (2 )of which are used by the strings of leds that came with it. the "Hub" contains only plugs no resistors or anything.
the (2) strings that plug in to the hub each have the following :(4) puck shaped clear cases each of which contain (6) leds. 2 red 2 blue and 2 green. board also containing (3)resistors.
im assumming one for each colour. the colour code on these resistors is green blue brown.

this is all that came with it no adapter nothing and being a liqudated item i got for cheap and as is

normaly i would assume 12 volts being from a car but i know some car accesories have adaptors knocking it down to whatever volts. my question is can any tell what that voltage is i need by lookin on the resistor codesand the other info?

calumc
10-31-2007, 09:49 AM
did it come with a cigarette-lighter plug on the end? if so you'd need to check if that had any resistors in it. If not just chop off the plug and connect it to the black and yellow wires on a molex

scytzoh
10-31-2007, 10:16 AM
no as i said that is it the "hub thing" has other plugs on it "1"bigger thanthe 2 used for strings, (im thinking is the power and connections to control sequence ect) and two smaller then one even smaller.
i have jimmy'd around with the wires and got all the wires identified that i need to tun on lights