l.e.d's question.............

Alright well i work in a salvage yard and i was wondering if led third brake lights could be wired up to be used as tailights with maybe a trailer converter or somthing along those lines considering our yard is full of these led's and converters and since i am building my truck on a budget these would cost me nothing if i could make it work any input would be greatly appreciated.

HEY I WAS GONNA ASK THE SAME QUESTION. I THOUGHT ABOUT BUYING THE L.E.D KIT FROM FBI WILL IT WORK.I HAVE A CADILLAC LED IN MINE.I USED A TRAILER LIGHT CONVERTOR BUT IT MAKES THE RUNNING LIGHT REAL DIM.AN ANSWER WOULD BE GREAT

WEll i think that 3rd brake lights don't have two stages of brightness, (running lights, brake lights) so it probably wouldn't be the safest thing to use at night cause you wouldn't be able to distinguish between braking and not braking,

so there is a difference between the leds that people buy from say fbi and third brake light led's huh dammit and JEFF (4uh8rs) does your caddy third led have only two wires on it for the whole thing or does it have 2 positives and two negatives?

Something like this I'd guess...
http://www.hitechledproducts.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_55&products_id=289&osCsid=1a1277c71cae5b35a3fbeb9834f0fd9f
Something like this I'd guess.

one postive one negative

what are you planning on running for directionals???? since there is only two wires that means the whole thing will blink not actually given an actual direction in which you are turning.

im not concerned about signals just want a taillight and brake light

ya i gotcha im trying to stay as legit as i can i have enough already to get a nice stack of equiptment violations trying to cut down on some. lol.

You can get two levels of brightness on those strips, just wire the park lights through a resistor with a value to drop it a couple volts. Then put the brake light wire on the OTHER side of the resistor. You will need a couple power diodes, of a larger, higher amperage, to keep the brake pedal from turning on the park lights lol.

And this will not give you stop/turn unless you already HAVE single bulb tails, you'll still need a trailer converter. But it will make led strips have three wires, a park, a stop and a ground.