STG
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I did my little upgrade jobs this afternoon, the LED's I got are blindingly bright though they semi fade a bit and then go off instead of the full fade.
I put a 12-5V convertor in and tapped onto the 12V power from the incoming cable. I just put a splice onto the conductors 3 (+12) and 4 (Gnd) padded the converter and hot glued into place, then the 5V output went to a USB-A socket that comes out just above the headlining above the mirror. All very neat.
All works great, just got to get some new dashcam sticky pads as I have none left, these come tomorrow. I thank everyone for their pictures.
If anybody is going to tap the 12V in the same way for their dashcam etc and also want to replace the interior bulbs for LED then I found that pulling the bulb holders out from behind was a lot easier than trying to pry the interior light lens off. The bulb holders just pull out easy, take the bulb out and put the LED in and then just pop the holder back into it hole, about 10 secs to do.
I put a 12-5V convertor in and tapped onto the 12V power from the incoming cable. I just put a splice onto the conductors 3 (+12) and 4 (Gnd) padded the converter and hot glued into place, then the 5V output went to a USB-A socket that comes out just above the headlining above the mirror. All very neat.
All works great, just got to get some new dashcam sticky pads as I have none left, these come tomorrow. I thank everyone for their pictures.
If anybody is going to tap the 12V in the same way for their dashcam etc and also want to replace the interior bulbs for LED then I found that pulling the bulb holders out from behind was a lot easier than trying to pry the interior light lens off. The bulb holders just pull out easy, take the bulb out and put the LED in and then just pop the holder back into it hole, about 10 secs to do.
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