TUTORIAL: Making LEDs (cont.)

Solder the other end of the LED to the striped wire of the speaker wire.



Crimp down on the soldered connection to eliminate burrs.



Eye up the second wire in the speaker wire pair and cut it to length (because of the length of the resistor, this wire will be too long initially).



Put an shrink sleeve on the speaker wire, and then solder it to the other end of the resistor.



Shrink the first wrap, and then place a larger wrap (or tape) over the pair of connections and shrink/wrap them to secure all connections.



Test using battery or the little power source that comes with some LED strands.



And that’s it! Read through the write-ups, determine how many you’ll need, and make them ahead of time. It’ll minimize the amount of time that your truck is apart, and will give you a really good idea if you’ve built the LEDs correctly. Once you have that confirmation, it also makes troubleshooting easy once you’re installing (as you should be fairly certain that any failures in your install aren’t a result of a bad LED/wire).