WedgeBase by MadVampy

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

I'm doing an electronics project that is requiring LED lighting and I wanted to make something that I could quickly replace an LED if I decided to. I had bought some LED replacement bulbs for my truck and they were the wedge base design so I thought that would work perfect for what I needed. I have a bunch of wedge base sockets so it all came together nicely. So I took one of them and after measuring them designed my own that could accept any type of incandescent or led lamp that had both power leads on the one end.
NOTE: For those that don't deal with LED's much. A standard LED runs on between 3 - 3.8 volts DC, if you plan on making replacement LED lamps for your car remember your car or truck runs on DC voltages ranging from 11.5 to 14.5 volts DC (some run on a 24 volt DC system), if you simply throw a regular LED in one of these and plug it in it will for sure burn out! You will need whats called a ballast resistor or "Drop" resistor to reduce the DC voltage down to the 3 volts DC (3-3.5 volts depending on the type of LED), you can do a Google search on how to figure out the right size resistor to use. Also LED's are polarity sensitive devices, if you make one and it doesn't light up when you apply power simply pull it out of the socket and turn it 180* and reinsert it.
Also I am not responsible for any damage to your electrical circuit or car/ truck electrical systems.