Just wondering if anyone has tried this.

I find that the 912 incandescent bulb that is in the trunk just doesn't cut it.

I bought an LED light strip from eBay and tried to wire it into the trunk light.

The bulbs barely light up. I tried an LED 912 bulb as well and it flickered. Frustrated I took a voltage meter to the socket and found that it's only giving approx 11VDC. These LEDs are quite picky and want a consistent 12VDC to work at full brightness.

Does anyone know of a good clean 12VDC source to power the light strip, I will use the trunk light socket as a signal to turn on the LED, but I don't to go as far as adding a relay and running a line directly from the battery just to be able to see where stuff is in the trunk.

I am redoing my interior lighting as well as adding HID fogs. I will post pics of everything else once I'm done. I want to be able to post pics of the trunk as well so any help would be greatly appreciated!

TIA

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Factory in-dash NAV / K&N Filter / 6500K HID Lows / LED Everything / Gutted stock air box
Flipped Motor Mounts / Brisk Plugs / Shimmy's Custom 4-core wires / Aeroforce Interceptor

i got one in my trunk that's red since i know red illuminates best at dark i'll take a photo real quick and post for ya if it's suitable for ya lighting wise

photo for ya but i'd rather have a longer strip than the 12" one in there now

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180 T stat, HV3, Wizaired Intake, GMPP Exhaust, Speed Daddy Headers, 1.9 Yella Terra Rockers, Eibach Springs on KYB AGX Struts, Custom LED interior light switches, BBEngineering.com 6 Pod Cluster, Poly Mounts and Bushings, Mild Tune, Gen 3 Coming Soon with L26 block, HPTuner

oh great now somebody is going to install H.I.D in their trunk to be ubber cool

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2007 Pontiac Grand Prix
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2990036

I have a red light strip as well. Looks good! Where did you draw the 12V from.

I'm gonna take tod1d's advice. HIDs for the trunk. I will be uber cool! Lol

But then I still need 12V to power them. Would an inline capacitor help to raise the voltage to 12V? (For LEDs no HIDs planned)

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Factory in-dash NAV / K&N Filter / 6500K HID Lows / LED Everything / Gutted stock air box
Flipped Motor Mounts / Brisk Plugs / Shimmy's Custom 4-core wires / Aeroforce Interceptor

If you're only getting 11 volts to the trunk light you must have a bad ground, a low battery or a bad alternator. Check some other light sources and see how much voltage they are getting.

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Bright Red 2008 G8 GT

Mods: DRCUSTOMPARTS Center Gauge Bezel
Superchips ECM/TCM Tune- Volant CAI
Custom Borla Axle Back Mufflers - HID's
Holden V8 Badges
My Website

this is what i have in my trunk, its pretty bright

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somethings just cant be replaced ... good times...

It would be cool to run a strip all along the inner rim where the lid closes. I plan on doing something like that once I finish changing all the bulbs in the interior of my car.

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http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3882088

it replaced the non existent trunk light just crimped it up to the wires and bam i had light lol

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180 T stat, HV3, Wizaired Intake, GMPP Exhaust, Speed Daddy Headers, 1.9 Yella Terra Rockers, Eibach Springs on KYB AGX Struts, Custom LED interior light switches, BBEngineering.com 6 Pod Cluster, Poly Mounts and Bushings, Mild Tune, Gen 3 Coming Soon with L26 block, HPTuner

i have more hid's than you
and i plan on getting 2 more kits to make it a total of 5 and after all is said and done roughly 9 pairs altogether

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Aragorn

that truck is OMG HID'S and awesome... got any random photos of driving with all on? :-p

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180 T stat, HV3, Wizaired Intake, GMPP Exhaust, Speed Daddy Headers, 1.9 Yella Terra Rockers, Eibach Springs on KYB AGX Struts, Custom LED interior light switches, BBEngineering.com 6 Pod Cluster, Poly Mounts and Bushings, Mild Tune, Gen 3 Coming Soon with L26 block, HPTuner

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Aragorn

Looks good Alex. The lights in the grille are mounted on the light bar I made for him.

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Bright Red 2008 G8 GT

Mods: DRCUSTOMPARTS Center Gauge Bezel
Superchips ECM/TCM Tune- Volant CAI
Custom Borla Axle Back Mufflers - HID's
Holden V8 Badges
My Website