Stumped - 12V LEDs install

Alright, I've installed bed lights on a switch successfully so I figured I'd try my luck with a set of LED's to put inside the cab. I bought a set of blue LEDs very similar to the picture above at Advance Auto. I got home and opened up the package and checked out the wires.

I'm no electrician, but there is a small black wire coming from the module. At the end of it, it is cut with even smaller black wire and red wire inside. I stripped the two ends of these 2 wires and revealed the actual wire itself, which was 3 or 4 strands of "hair" like wire. STUMPED. How do I power these safely??? I figured somebody could help me out, I searched for a little bit but couldn't come up w/ anything similar to this. Thanks

 

Man you've been helpin me out a lot lately...haha. What gauge of wire should I use? And do I need a resistor for these?

 

alright thanks man, and again i appreciate the help....i'll give it a try!

 

Out of curiosity, Why are the wires so small?!? It's alright to solder these tiny wires to 18 Ga wire? Idk, I tried to wire these up the other night, and it blew the 10A inline fuse up close to the battery...Im trying to figure out why, and I figured it was because I was connecting large wires to tiny wires. What would cause the inline fuse to blow? Maybe I wired it up wrong on the switch? Wrong size of inline fuse (10A)? Maybe a combination of mistakes?

Here is a diagram of how I wired them up.

 

Its an oznium illuminated switch, and I may have had it wired up wrong because i just guessed when i did it (dumb) cuz I didn't have a diagram. I found the switch diagram on the oznium website so I should be good to go there. I don't have a meter to check it. Is a 10A fuse alright to use as the inline fuse?? Or should I go higher or lower? Thanks for bearing with me and my poor knowledge on electrical stuff.

 

anybody? Trying to wire up 2 - 6 LED glow pads (12V). Using 18 Ga wire....What size inline fuze?

 

Looks correct to me. Although I am no electrician lol. My guess is maybe one of the wires inside where you stripped could possibly be touching, causing it to short. I had a problem similiar with a trailer I built. It kept blowing the fuse for my trucks running lights.

pissed me off...


If not then maybe the power wire could be touching a grounded piece of metal somewhere. I don't know much about diodes and resistors and all the mumbo jumbo.