I am a few months late to the party here. But I ordered all the ladies waiting for them to come in. And then I ordered the bezels also waiting on those. Less than $30 Canadian that’s pretty awesome. I’m debating whether I want to run them all the time or not and how great they are going to be. I’m wondering if there’s a way I can put in a resistor or something so that their lit but not Max brightness anybody have any ideas?
Technically, that is exactly how you would do it. But you need to size the resistor for the load. A single LED, or even just a couple would be fine on a standard 1/4w resistor. But for the number OP seems to have... You would be in the multi-watt range. (oversizing isn't a bad thing, undersizing is. But going too large would be expensive. And take up a lot of room.
You should look for one of those metal encased ones (usually orange anodized, or bare aluminum), and mount it to the frame somewhere, with some kind of thermal interface material, to help the resistor burn off the extra heat.
The exact size of the resistor would have to be calculated based on your preference. There are LED resistor calculators online. But basically there is a balance of the resistance and the wattage required. Or you could get real crazy, and get some kind of mosfet based solution, and make it adjustable... But then you risk getting real crazy, and adding an arduino...
And then you graduate with an electrical engineering degree, and a new hobby...