Would It Be Possible?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Ah, the master mind. So, it should not be an issue if I just splice into those wires accordingly? talnlnky has me worried. I don't want to mess up/total my car. hehehe. THANKS!

It's definitely safe to do. The dome light protected by a 10A fuse.

If you wanted to be super safe, you would add a fuse between your tap point and the LED strings that is appropriately rated for the current draw of the LEDs and the current carrying capacity of the wires that feed them. 24 AWG wire (which would be typically the smallest wire size for the leads of strips like those) is rated for 2.1A enclosed or 3.5A free-air. The LED strips would draw less than 0.25A per strip, so you could add a 2A inline fuse and be safe for the wire size. The 2A fuse would allow you to connect up to 8 of the strips.

When you have a huge discrepancy, like tapping a 50A fused circuit with 24 AWG wire, is where you really run into the issue that talnlnky is talking about. In that case, if you shorted your 24 AWG wires, the 50A fuse would need to pop, but the 24 AWG wires aren't rated for anywhere near 50A, so they would fail before the fuse, potentially catastrophically (i.e. fire).