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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Dam LED automotive lighting

Have done a few things over the last year with LED applications, relocating the license plate & 3rd brake light on the jeep, and today replaced some OE side running lights on my Featherlite car trailer. Thankfully the leads on the trailer to the corroded LEDs were a decent gauge wire. The new fixtures I went to install had like 6 could not see them without my readers aluminum wires that would hardly secure into the splice unless i stripped an inch of insulation, twisted them and folded the skimpy wires 3x.

I recognize the lower demand for current requires less conductor mass, but how can one expect to do anything splicing wise with the micro wires for these fixtures? Save the solder them suggestion cause the heat to solder melts the aluminum hair thickness wires!


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