How to Connect Christmas Lights to a Car Battery

If you are planning on having a party or camping out over the holidays, you might want to decorate with Christmas lights to make the party or gathering a little more festive. Even in places where there is no regular source of electricity it is fairly simple to power up some lights. You just need to be careful and know your way around a car battery.

• Purchase a strand of LED Christmas lights rather than incandescent. The lights will last longer and use less battery power. Also, they are already wired for DC (battery) power as well as AC (outlet) power.
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  Look at the base of the bulb closest to the end of the strand. There is a ridge that is almost a complete circle--where the circle opens up is lined up with the negative wire. Note which wire is which.
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  Disconnect your car battery before you attempt to connect the light's wires. Do this by disconnecting the negative wire--unscrew the screw holding the wire down--and then laying the wire where it is not touching anything made of metal.
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  Using the wire strippers, take off the plastic or rubber covering at the end of the wires so you can easily attach the wires to the battery.
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  Unscrew the positive terminal on the car battery and attach the positive side of the LED light wire. Tighten the screw after making sure both the car wire and the light wire are attached well.
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  Attach the negative side of the LED light to the negative side, and then bring the negative battery wire back to its original position. Make sure both are connected well, and tighten the screw. This will reconnect your car battery as well as connect your Christmas lights. When you turn the car on, the LED lights should turn on, as well.

Tips & Warnings

• Always be careful when working with electrical components and power supplies. This is a fairly basic process -- not much harder than using jumper cables but, if not done correctly, you run the risk of possibly hurting yourself.

Monday-Autotalk-How to Decorate Your Car for the Holidays

In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, you can decorate your car. Most people don't consider decorating their cars because it seems like an unconventional idea. However, most people spend a lot of their time during the holidays driving around in their car, so it's only fitting that you decorate yours. There are several ways you can decorate your car for the holidays. Just like decorating your home, it is important to have a theme. If you have a good theme to go by, you can plan to decorate accordingly.

Tools and Materials Needed:

• Reindeer antlers
• LED lights
• Christmas stockings, small
• Christmas garland
• Colorful Christmas balls
• Small plastic bags
• String
• Scissors
• Ribbon
• Adapter
• Scotch tape
• Soap and water
• Sponge
• Car wax
• Rag

Step 1: Contact Local Law Enforcement

Before you start decorating your car, it is important that you get in touch with local law enforcement. Check to see whether decorating or putting objects on the exterior of your car is legal. There are some states that do not allow this, so make sure that you get the go signal before you start to decorate your car.

Step 2: Cleaning the Vehicle

Wash your car thoroughly with soap and water. Let it dry and wipe it with a rag. Apply some car wax. Cleaning the car will make it easier for you to use tape and adhesives.

Step 3: Attaching the Reindeer Antlers

There are reindeer antlers available that can be attached to your car. The antlers come with suction cups that you can attach on each side of the front window. Make sure that the antlers are aligned properly so that everything is centered. The reindeer antlers also come with a red nose that you can attach to the grill of your car.

Step 4: Placing the LED lights

No holiday decoration is complete without some lights. Get some Bgocled LED lights and string them on the ceiling to decorate your car. String the lights from the visor to the coat hooks above the back door. Use an adapter to light the LED lights. You can use scotch tape to secure the strings in place.

Step 5: Decorating the Garland

Start decorating the garland with different colorful balls. Place the garland by the back window where it can be seen. However, make sure that the decorations are not too high, so as not to block your view.

Step 6: Decoration for the Rear View Mirror

Tie some Christmas balls in varying lengths and then tie all the strings together. Hang the balls by the rear view mirror. Place a ribbon to hide the string.

Step 7: Placing the Christmas Stockings

You can use Christmas stockings as trash cans to decorate your car. String ribbon on the stockings and hang it by the back of the front seats. Don't forget to put a small plastic bag inside, so you can easily replace the trash bags.

Monday-Antotalk-Car Decoration

  LED car lights are the most recent feature of the car illumination both as decor lights and functional ones. LED car lights known as functional are mounted by factories more often and in an increasing range. Such automotive light bulbs are available in a large range of sizes, colours and fittings at FancyGens. Nearly all contemporary car lights can be substituted with LED and neon light equivalents, and a couple of manuals will help you change these lights by yourself.
The benefits and advantages of car lights are countless. Neon and LED lighting have the advantage of instant start-up, and extremely long life. Good quality auto LED lights have a lifespan up to 50 000 hours, that is why you will change your vehicle sooner than the change the bulbs will be required again. The design of LED car lights is frequently more flexible, since they are available with different beam angles. Compared with filaments that can easily break, the durability of the LEDs is also impressive as these car lights are resistant to shake. LED car lights use direct current and they are not required AC current.
  The thing you need to pay attention to when applying aftermarket LED car lights is that LEDs are sensitive to heat, and functioning in a high temperature can shorten their life. That is why it is not advised to use LEDs next to headlights for instance, as they produce a large amount of heat. LED replacements have the advantage of very low power consumption - one of the reasons why they are worth using. However, plenty of new car constructions include an indicator for bulbs, and due to the low resistance of the LED bulbs, it might show that the bulb has gone. To fix this problem and get a valid indication you need to use a resistor kit included in the system.
  Besides the commonly used parking lamps, tail and stop lights, turn signals, daytime running lamps, and festoon lights, LEDs are often used for decorating cars both inside and outside the car. Additional lighting can be added within the car with 12V LED solutions, as most LEDs can be operated with batteries. A common and diverse form of decoration is the LED strip light available in the full spectrum of colours. RGB LED strip lights allow a whole new range of decorating your car, changing and varying its colour as often as you wish. LED strips - available in fully waterproof version - allowing external decoration of the car on any side, strips fixed openly on the body of the car. Car lighting at FancyGens is your chance to create a unique look for your car and save some power on the way.

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Monday-Autotalk-Led Lighting - Versatility For Decorating Your Cars And Homes

Bgocled LED lighting is just as useful for beautifying homes or vehicles as it is for emergency vehicle lighting. LED lights offer an excellent combination of a compact sleek design, low power consumption and great versatility across several different features. A series of 3W LEDs can give you a light module that can provide you an attractive combination of high intensity output without high amperage. Modern LED lights come with heat output monitors as well, to check that the temperature of the circuits after operating for a long time doesnt go too high. This also helps in extending the lifespan of LEDs beyond the already spectacular 40,000 50,000 hours. Thermal management is one of the important aspects of LED modules especially with extruded aluminum casings that help in easy heat dissipation.

Bgocled LED lighting is versatile because you can control so many different features associated with it. A great example is provided by circuits that come with modulators for pulse width. So, you can use these lights on your car grilles, pool areas, gardens or railings and choose the intensity of light you want. In other words, the lights can be dimmed or brightened. For the sake of interior dcor, we see the use of LED lights installed behind wooden panels, in wall sconces, in louvered frames and inside display cabinets, to provide a soft, soothing aura instead of direct beams. The versatility of LED circuits proves useful here because you can control the beam angle of the light varying it from 100 t0 400. The wide angle beam might help you on highways, when you want bright lights and greater coverage. Thus, you can use the versatility of the lighting to decorate your homes and cars and also get good functionality.

Bgocled LED lighting can also help you achieve high luminosity and the strongest beams for a given power supply. You can use optics to enhance the strength and coverage of beams. For example, you will need soft, less intense light in galleries, but bright lights for large party halls. Discotheques and bars might also find high intensity lights useful. Whether you are using high luminosity LEDs in discotheques or low intensity lights in your garden, you can control them, synchronize them if you operate flashing patterns and also go for multiple color segments for better effects. For example, colored beams emanated with the help of split color sections and filter optics can make your garden, the silhouettes, ornate plants and flowers look beautiful at nights, especially when you have a garden wedding or a barbecue party.

The versatility of Bgocled LED lighting also extends to the ease with which you can install or mount the lights. Polycarbonate bases are unbreakable and with compression gaskets are highly moisture resistant too. Dampening rubber studs in the design also offer vibration resistance to go with it. Encapsulation of the circuit with thermoplastic domes or covers ensures that they are corrosion and dust resistant. The circuits are also waterproof which makes them useful for outdoor lighting, whether it is your pool or your car.

Aototalk Monday --Car troubles shooting

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Here are some documents to fix you vehicle
To all who want to fix their own vehicles. The most important rule is to know what you're getting into before you start. Read a good shop manual on the job then decide if you want to tackle it yourself. Some tips:

1) Have step by step procedures with you before you start a job. Also, know what systems and sub-systems are involved with the job, and consequences if you overlook something. If you are doing a job in or under a dash (wiring, heater core, etc...), know first that there are AIR BAGS and related components in there that can kill you. If you get in the way of an accidentally deployed air bag it could be your last automotive fix.
2) Having a parts organizer to keep screws, nuts, and bolts together in a bin for a specific part of a teardown makes life easier on putting it back together.
3) Digital Camera. Take a vivid picture of the system before you start tearing it down. This way you know what it should look like re-assembled.
4) Take many pictures as you go. Referring to pics when you re-assemble can save you a lot of time and frustration.
Just some tips to help make your automotive repair experience a little more pleasant.
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Aototalk Monday

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The month of November 2011 is officially over which means the U.S. auto industry has released its sales figures.  If the month proved anything, it showed that the large car is hurting.  Of the four categories of cars, the large segment was the only one that fell from last year as only 2,004 were sold during November.  That figure is down 66.1 percent from 2010 and stark contrast to the midsize car which sold 229,300 units.  Despite the small and midsize car increase, America still loves its pickups.  531,301 total light-duty trucks (including SUVs and vans) were sold, a 13.8 percent increase from last year and the pickup itself saw a 21.7 percent increase compared to November 2010.  Rapidly making its way to the top of the segment castle is the midsize SUV which witnessed a 52.9 percent jump from last November.
As if history didn’t repeat itself enough, the Ford F-Series truck was the top selling vehicle once again.  The Blue Oval sold a total of 47,740 units, which was an increase of 23.9 percent.  Second place went to the other all-American hauler, the Chevrolet Silverado, which sold 34,251.  The recent release of the 2012 Toyota Camry helped the car make it to third place; 24,330 sedans were sold last month.  Honda managed to make a big comeback as it took best selling compact car honors with their Civic.  Despite its love-or-leave it redesign, the Japanese institution beat the previous champ, the Chevrolet Cruze.  Chevy sold 13,238 compacts compared to Honda’s 17,133.
In the race for top manufacture, General Motors won once again for November.  The brand sold a total of 180,402 vehicles with the majority of those sales (123,056) coming from their trucks.  Ford wasn’t too far behind with 166,441 total vehicle sales while the other member of the Big Three found itself beaten by Japanese Toyota.  Chrysler LLC sold 107,172 cars and trucks which was a 44.5 percent increase from last year.  Impressive but not enough to take third place which was had by Toyota.  For the first month in a long time, the brand managed to see an increase from 2010 with a total vehicle sales number of 137,960.  It may have only been a 6.7 percent increase from last year, but it is better from the last few months which saw drops over 20 percent.  Volkswagen saw a big jump from last November as 28,412 total sales was 40.7 percent better than 2010.
During the month of November, Ferrari sold 148 cars in the United States.  Maserati managed to unload 191 cars while only 36 Rolls Royces were sold.  To further validate Mercedes-Benz’s decision to axe Maybach, only 2 cars were purchased during the 25 selling days.  A total of 994,721 light duty cars and trucks were sold in the United States during November 2011.  That figure may be below one million, but it is still an increase from 2010 by 13.9 percent.


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Would it be cool to trick out my camry to look like a touring competition car?

First off, I recognize the camry is a japanese sedan and you have to be careful not to make it into a ricer. However, looking at some pictures, one style people go for with their 3rd gen camrys seem very slick and elegant. The 3rd gen Camrys I refer to were at one time used as Touring race cars. I am not so much interested in ground effects or a spoiler which will "Spoil" my fuel economy, but I am thinking of lowering the car, which means a stiff sports suspension, and especially those large white rims and cool tires to match. Right now I am riding on 14s, and I don't want to do anything stupid like get huge Dubs, but just check out what I mean- look at the dark blue one. I am thinking that sans the spoiler.
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The only problem is I am an 18 yr old college freshman and I can barely afford pizza rolls. But, maybe in the future, years down the road, as I am so attached to my camry I am not going to get rid of it (I may end up as a car hoarder), it may be something to consider post college or in graduate school.

Here is my car as is. I already did bodywork, which came out quite nice but slightly wavy (Good enough, I didn't use bondo. There used to be two dents on the passenger side front fender) So the body is good now, so I can focus on making it badass.

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Nichia white LED with the Citizen e-business cooperation to strengthen

The world's leading mobile phone with LED Factory Citizen Holdings (hereinafter referred to as Citizen HD) announced that its LED business subsidiary of Citizen Electronics (Citizen Electronics) will be and the Japanese LED maker Nichia Chemical Industries (hereinafter referred to as Nichia) the establishment of capital / business relationship, as a means to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the cause of the white LED.

Cooperation in the capital part of Asia will be held on April 2, 2012 fully subscribed new shares Citizen Electronics, IPO amounted to 2 billion yen, accounting for Citizen E-5% share of total equity.

In addition, part of the business cooperation, Citizen Electronics and Nichia will jointly research and development can meet the market demand of LED packaging / assembly products, and co-construction of new manufacturing technologies; followed by the two sides will jointly purchase materials to drive down costs; other , will expand Citizen Nichia white LED electronic release OEM orders.

It is understood, Citizen Electronics in 2002, and Nichia signed licensing contract manufacturing, to help in the form of OEM OEM Nichia white LED. Citizen HD in 2007 to capitalize on and Nichia to cooperate with each other holdings, including Citizen HD 3.7% stake held by Nichia Nichia holds Citizen HD 2.9% stake.

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