Plate light

[hanly2]

I need to come up with a cheap easy idea for a plate light. I have this taillight mounted in my seat and I plan on mounting my plate right under the back of the seat, horizontal. I was thinking about cutting a whole in the tailight housing to let a little light shine down on the plate but I don't want to do that if it will make my taillight less bright. Or I could pick up some kind of cheap light assembly from advance auto or something. What do you think?

 

[Terry]

Use a small ribbon of white LED's attached to the top of the plate and hanger. should work with no problem and be almost invisible when turned off.

Terry
J'ville, Fl

 

[paultsmith]

agree, you can just use a couple of leds.
On ebay you can also find license plate bolts that have built in LEDs, do an ebay search for licence led bolt.

If you havent picked out a taillight, some of the led taillights have built in white leds that can shine down on your plate

 

[73750K]

http://www.designengineering.com/products.asp?m=sc&cid=5
I used these

 

[pawn]

did you get the plate kit or just the bolts? Also, how was wiring it up...just tap into the running light wire for the tailight?

 

[73750K]

I just got the bolts, and I wired it into the tail lamp circuit.

 

[pawn]

I just got the bolts, and I wired it into the tail lamp circuit.

ok cool thanks.

 

[hanly2]

If i buy a strip of white leds can I wire it right into my tailight or do I need some sort of resistor or something? How do you attach them are they peel and stick?