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claudiopolis (author) says:

A little late but better late then never... Tolerance is not a key factor here. I'm not that perfectionist.
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Love it. Will check it out later.

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Jul 19, 2009. 1:41 AM Reply

so this would work in cars... hmm. sweet instructable

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Mar 21, 2010. 8:06 PM

you may want to put a voltage regulator on it, since the voltage can differ between off position, and engine running.
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Oct 27, 2008. 2:57 PM

You could get fancy and add a couple of switches to a couple of those strings, and have a multi-brightness LED light.
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Mar 21, 2010. 10:36 AM

well... actually the way to do it would be to add a control chip + PWM; in addition to proper dimming, this would allow for elimination of load resistors also thus increasing efficiency.
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