The shift cable spontaneously broke at the linkage end last week, postponing work on the project. We managed to weld the end back on, and I can continue working on this.
I measured current draw for the LED strips, each 10" combination of 3 uses between 0.57 and 0.59 amps, both together measured 1.06A.
The hot glue critical for strain relieving the solder joints made it a tight squeeze trying to insert it into the car, and I damaged one of my LED strips. It's now pending repair.
I got the second one in using a heat gun to soften the glue as I pressed the strip in. Then more hot glue was excessively added to hold the strip in place, to keep it from falling out of place with trunk closure, and to seal the incision into the side of the reflector.
The power and ground wiring is ran into the trunk lid channels, the few inches of exterior wiring has been protected with heatshrink, where it crosses the weatherstrip I've hot glued it to the trunk lid.
Wires run through the trunk lid to the driver rear quarter. Ground joins common ground for the rear lamps, power for my passenger side LED strip joins the orange-with-green-stripe for the passenger side tail lamp major feed (brake & signal).
To do:
- Repair driver side LED strip, and install.
- Incorporate Diode Dynamics 2A PWM Dimmer and a couple relays to get dimmed state for running lamp operation.