If you want to modify LED light strings - this may be a good source to start

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-USBLEDB-1

these run on your computer's USB port [ 5 volt] - 

I think if you look up the web pages people have regarding using LEDs in the

vanagon dash lights - the same resistor and be added in line to these to bring the voltage down.

Tom

> ----------
> From:         Vanagon Mailing List on behalf of Don in North Carolina
> Reply To:     Don in North Carolina
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 6, 2005 9:21 AM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: DC party lights
> 
> John,
> 
> Here is a link to the picture you are referring to:
> 
> http://www.the12volt.com/ohm/ohmslaw.asp
> 
> The one thing that always (to me, anyway) showed that scientists DO have a
> sense of humor:  The unit of measuring resistance to current flow is the
> ohm.  The unit of measuring the conductance of current flow is the mho (ohm
> backwards).  Somebody was having fun...
> 
> Just remember, ohm's law is as easy as PIE - P=I x E (Power [in watts] =
> Current [in amps] times Volts).  That and I=E/R (Current [in amps] = Volts
> divided by Resistance [in ohms])are the only ones you need to remember, with
> any two values you can solve for the third, in simple DC circuits anyway.
> 
> And for "Party Lights", I would probably just make a string of LEDs in
> different colors - festive, and low current draw.  Not to expensive if you
> make them yourself...
> 
> Don in Reidsville, NC
> 1986 Kawasaki Concours
> 1988 Vanagon GL (Sylvia)
> "I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wed 06 April 2005 05:51
> Subject: Re: DC party lights
> 
> 
> > Somewhere out there - a book, on the 'Net, somplace --- is a drawing - a
> > circle I think - that is a representation of the relation of all the
> > aspects of electricity.-- Volts, amps, Watts, Resistance, etc........the
> > old E=IR thing. I haven't found it but I know it exists. You can plug in
> > the numbers for just about anything and calculate for the unknown value
> > -- whether volts, amp, resistance, watts, whatever. There is also some
> > stuff about wire sizing for load.
> >
> > Just thought I would bring it up!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
> > Chelsea, AL
> 
>