$17.99 Cargo Lamp to LED Third Light conversion

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To read the original thread and discussion on this topic go here- LINK


So I have been seeing all of these LED conversions for our trucks, which makes a lot of sense. What I don’t understand is why they are so expensive. I did a little research and came up with a few components that were too cheap not to try out. Here is what I came up with:
I first researched LEDs and came up with these from Lightobject. $12.45 all in



I then went to Radio Shack and bought terminal and bus strips. $5.54





So I took a new light I got from Brothers (nice piece) and started drilling.

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After drying overnight, I wired up the terminal strip





and BANG!





This light is really bright! I’ll take it over the $129.99 LED conversion being sold by an aforementioned vendor.

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These LEDs have a built in current limiter so you just run a brake line to the positive, find a ground and they act as a third brake light. I did not touch the cargo light components, so this is a cheap way to have one fixture provide both a cargo lamp and a third brake light.

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Originally Posted by Pop's C-10

If you can solder, you can daisy chain tha power leads & grounds together to eliminate the T-strip & make less of a wire bundle...

That is nice mod..

I may end up soldering the wires when I finally install the fixture. For now the terminal bus was a quick way to test the project. Thanks for all comments!