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Electrical question for 66 Bug

I want to put one of those auxilliary stop light in the rear window as shown in a back issue of DB&HVW Magazine a few years ago. It is an aluminum body with LED type lights. If I use it in conjunction with my stock tail lights will they provide enough resistance for proper operation of the LED's? My car has been converted to a 12 volt system with an alternator too.

I also want to install fron side marker lights. They are standard type bulbs and not LED's Do I just wire them in series with the wire from the relay to the front turn indicator? AS with so many of our after market goodies these lights came with no instructions at all and I know next to nothing about electricity.

Thanks for your help

Mike 66 Chopped bug

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Mike West
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As long as the accessory light is rated at 12V, you don't need any external resistor. (In any event, the tail lights don't add any resistance to the ckt.)

If you are using them as "front turn indicators", then they are not really "marker" lights which are on all the time.

Anyway, to have them flash with the turn signals, wire one side to chassis ground and the other to the Blk/Grn or the Blk/Wh wire (depending on which side).

If you really did want "markers" wire from ground to the Gray/stripe wire.

Speedy Jim

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Speedy Jim

The maker of this extra brake light also offers some very small LED clusters that will fit into a vintage (58) size VW tail light but they say you must use a resistor in order to make them work properly, so I assumed I might need one for the extra brake light too.

Thanks, Jim

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Mike West

You'd have to check with the mfr (or experiment...) to be sure if yours will work. Jim

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Speedy Jim

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