I think this should be moved to the 'How To' section.

Very informative, well done!

 

 

Glad to see you obeying orders, HM!

 

good write up

 

Fabulous, comprehensive write up - well done. I'll defintely be giving this a go.

 

Tanxs!!!, it's a pleasure to give something to a forum that has allready given too much to me!!

 

Footwell lighting - dimming - locate and access plug




I bought the Rick Honda LEDs and installed them to the glove box light. However, I would like the lights to switch on only when opening/closing the car with the keys or when opening/closing the doors. So I decided to unmount the dashboard on the driver's side as stated above.

Now I am not sure on (1) where to locate the plug to connect the LEDs and (2) the best way to acces the plug either from the front or from underneath the dashboard. I am posting some photos maybe one of you guys can explain the matter better

 

Fantastic writeup, easy to follow , well done

 

With this one? When are the lights on?
Is it JUST when the doors are open/courtesy light is on? So they are 100% off when driving?

 

Exactly, this is the way I wanted it!!... Still with Rick's instructions you'll get the lights working along with the headlights

 

That's a really good write up, and today I've fitted some blue footwell LEDs.

One thing to note, is that different cars seem to have different plugs where the light wiring joins up behind the fusebox. On my Type S GT, there were the two plugs like in soponcio_virtuals write up, but there was one behind the other, rather than being side by side. Perhaps a slight difference between left & right hand drive cars ?

I didn't use Rick's kit to provide the illumination, I bought two LED spot lights from Halfords, £5.99 each and whilst they don't give out the same brights as Rick's 9 LED strips, they are bright enough for me.

I will post pictures tonight, once I've seen the lights properly in the dark.

Link to Halfords website
Prism LED Single Spot Light Blue from Halfords Price £5.99

Pictures now added

 

That's a really good write up, and today I've fitted some blue footwell LEDs.

One thing to note, is that different cars seem to have different plugs where the light wiring joins up behind the fusebox. On my Type S GT, there were the two plugs like in soponcio_virtuals write up, but there was one behind the other, rather than being side by side. Perhaps a slight difference between left & right hand drive cars ?

I didn't use Rick's kit to provide the illumination, I bought two LED spot lights from Halfords, £5.99 each and whilst they don't give out the same brights as Rick's 9 LED strips, they are bright enough for me.

I will post pictures tonight, once I've seen the lights properly in the dark.

Link to Halfords website
Prism LED Single Spot Light Blue from Halfords Price £5.99

Pictures now added
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That's something I'm about to do! Just have to find right LEDs in Russia. Is the manual for fitting this type of LEDs the same as in the first post?

 

I can't edit this DIY anymore so I'm placing the Video on how it works here:

 

What would happen if you did the following?

And no, I'm not going to attempt it!

Headlights (Riks) --> Resistor --> Capasitor ----\
************************************ |----LIGHTS
Courtesy light --> Capasitor -------------------/

Therefore you get 12v and full light whilst the courtesy light is on, then when that goes off it's dim whilst the headlights are on.
I believe the capasitors would stop a short circuit, but I don't know enough about this!

 

Me neither...!

 

Don't know either!

But Stef designed this circuit to do the dimming function.

http://www.civinfo.com/forum/129393-post1.html

 

DIY – footwell lighting
These are light blue and light green cables.

Which is the positive and which is the negative of these two cables?
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Edited to say I just tried this and it worked - not sure which way I connected it but it works and can't wait for it to get dark and see it now!! FYI I bought these (6 leds for each footwell) - seem very cheap. Will add photos later.

 

Here are some photos - really pleased with the LEDs - total cost including wires and scotch locks £10 from maplin. Love the way it fades out with the interior lighting.

 

Picts look fantasic ,best picts ive seen yet and done on the cheap . Nice one , great car , great install . Im very interested on how u got them to fade

 

Is it really simple connection to light blue and light green cables ??
Nothing more?
What is the purpose of connectors from first picture?

 

Yeah thats it. Just use the scotch locks to connect to the light green and light blue cables. I presume the original poster used the male/female connectors to make it easier to change the leds perhaps once they had got the wires connected up? I didn't bother - I can always cut the wires if I want to change colours of the LEDs or something.

Actually it's worth mentioning - when I tried to feed the led through the center console initially I tried to feed it through kind of the middle of it (not right up where the carpet stops - which I did after re-reading the post and was much easier!) and the contacts on the leds must have hit some metal in there and it shorted out the circuit. Just needed to replace the fuse under the bonnet.

 

picture of the connectors from rhd (type r) looking up from the drivers footwell with the trims etc removed.

you can see the light blue and green wires in the pic too.
Hope that helps someone

Cheers,
Gavin

 

Are we talking bout the left block . Just for clarity is there any change you could edit your pict with a arrow/circle pointing to the correct wires .
cheers

 

Wires are indicated in the image. I also indicated which level to push to remove the connector - foxed me for ages!

 

Thats a great help ,thanks for doing that . Now one quicky , the wires feel quite tight . Once you released the plug did you find there was some slack to play with .
cheers

 

glad to see I wasn't the only one who had trouble finding how to release the clip! :lol:

yeah it was very tight to get the scotch locks on. god knows how many time i dropped the sodding things
in hindsight, you can probably cut some length off the end of the scotch locks - the middle bit where the metal wire joining plate thingy is the important part.

thanks for editing the image, benjamino!

Cheers,
Gav

 

No problem Gavin.

Yeah I kind of thought in hindsight it might have just been easier to use a knife and peel back some of the insulation on the wires and just twist the lights wires around and seal up with insulating tape. The scotch locks are convenient but very bulky!

 

Ok , got mine wired up today and they work well . I think i should advice people though that this is not a walk in the park . Things could go pear shape very quickly . Example which happened me . The blue wire broke when using a scotch lock and theres no slack at all in the cable . I had to solder upside down in the car . Im a engineer and was able to recover with soldering and heat shrink . But bear a thought lets say you bend a pin in that block connector or break a wire and have no slack to repair .
Im just throwing caution to the wind .. be careful if you proceed .
Would i do it again ?
Nope wouldnt take a risk , but hey thats my call .

Great piece of work geting the cables identified so well done there to soponcio_virtual and also benjamino and Gavin for the picts .

hope this helps

 

Yeah agree its a pain in the :bootyshake:

 

Doesnt anyone remember what wire is positive and negative? Or doesnt it matter? I just wouldnt be too happy with changing wires when they're almost cut in the clip

 

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I've just done this on my 06 UK Civic 1.8 and my connector block wasn't white it was blue and a bit smaller I think. Anyways, I managed to fudge it together in the end, had a tough time with the scotch locks, but its all working. And then had it wired up the wrong way as I didn't know if blue or green was the postive, still not entirely sure....

 

What is it with peoples memories here?! Cant someone with a working setup check what's the correct combination? Just to have that clearified for everyone else who're about to do this.

Pleeeeaaaaase? [smilie=sad.gif]

 

Guess my memory chips arent what they used to be . No biggy really ..
If you are determinated to go ahead and scotchlock a piece of wire to each then just stick a multimeter on the two wires and hey presto youve worked out postive . Almost 100% that the light blue is the postive but sure check it when you installing and post back for others . One thing for sure is im not going near them two wires again ( scary biscuits ).
A bit of advice : when using the scotchlocks dont just connect them straight to the wires feeding the leds . Drop of the two wires onto spades .
Then have female spades on the wires coming from the lights . That way no need to reopen any scotch locks .

 

If only I had a multimeter! Maybe I can find one at work to steal for a day or two

No doubt I'd find out about this myself and post whatever I find out here asap, but it's just too cold here at the moment for me to do something like this Until I get a chance in a garage or warm weather, I just want as much info on how to do this as possible

The spades-thing is a good idea though, I'll make sure to have a set of those around [smilie=gt-happyup.: