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Originally Posted by peter_4059
Troy - the 12V LED's we discussed have resistors built in to the wiring under the heat shrink.
You want the LED in parallel over each RCA socket. When the fuse blows no current flows to that RCA so the LED goes out.
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Yes, the LEDs need to be across the socket or it may be easier to wire from the fuse output to the LED (+) and the other end of the LED to your 12V negative (-).
LEDs need a current limiting resistor but sounds like your ones already have this.
BTW, I ended up putting in some fairly high resistance (4.7k Ohm & in some cases 10k Ohms) in series with my LED as at night (99% of the time I use it), I didn't want a blazzing red beacon. It's suprising how bright a "conventionally" design LED cct is at night. Keep this in mind if your LEDs end up too bright. Just wire in a resitor in series with the LED if you do go down that track. Jaycar etc sell them.
Darrin...