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Old 03-03-2010, 12:20 PM
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Yeah have done a ton of those. The hvac will have to have its resistors & power IC swapped however. Gauge cluster is not required to swap resistors.

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you dont need to swap out the resistors for blue LED's.

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So I am doing something with two LED bulbs. I want to run them in a series so should i place a single resistor from the positive end of the Led to the battery or 2 resistors, one at each positive end of the leds?
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Old 03-03-2010, 11:51 PM
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Are they individual leds or actual led bulbs? Most led bulbs already have resistors built into them.
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individual leds 3mm
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It would be better to run 3 of them in the series, but if you do want to run two of them in series, you would use a 560ohm 1/4w resistor to be on the safe side.
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Damn I bought 10 of the 470 ohm ones a couple days ago. So should i place a single resistor from the positive end of the Led to the battery or 2 resistors, one at each positive end of the leds?
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You could use a 470 ohm, I calculated the pair to run super super safe, 470 is still within the safe zone so no worries

In general it does not matter which side you place the resistor, positive or negative, however I always place it on the negative side.
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Awesome thanks man.
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hot do u do that to change all ur gauges n needles to white n blue
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