Guest

looks good! congrats on the new mod, i am going to have to look into that. :D

pkoule

Beautiful.
Tell us more, tell us more..

theappe

that really looks tough to do, hehe, i wouldnt do that ____!

superjeer

This is a cool mod because it's DYI, it's relatively cheap and it looks really cool. Good work. MY GOD why is Fazure on my tv?!

brownboy

I got the Blue 1206 LEDs at:
http://www.all4cell.com/
It was $11 shipped. They included a fifth spare for free.

I'll try to get some more pictures tomorrow (especially the dash mod) evening to make the setup more understandable.

g33k

Coolness, thanks! So... Do you by any chance have the radio shack part number for the LEDs you used on the control area? The radio shack around here never has a good stock on the LEDs, so I'd have to order those on their site or something. I was checking through the tech section, but it's hard to find a single difinitive answer to what LEDs people were using. If I was going to do it I'd want it to turn out like yours, hehe.

DJ_Rejected

Frickin a that looks awesome!!!

brownboy

This is what I used:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...5Fid=276%2D316

calikitten118

anyone know of a place where i could get this kind of work done? i'm a little hesitant to do it myself.

EastTNScionxB

I am going to need some help too! Oh well, I will order everything, then find someone to do it!

ohcanada_00

Bonza mate! excellent job!

brownboy

Overall picture:


Closeup of clock (I had trouble with the exposure on the digicam washing the numbers out...looks much better in person):


Closeup of dash mod:


Position of dash LEDs to achieve even light distribution:


Solder work at back end including resistors:


Back end of the dash faceplate showing the light diffusers (these diffusers do not work as well for LEDs since the light pattern of a LED is focused):

EastTNScionxB

So that is exactly how the lights should be positioned? I guess that is an ignorant question, but I dont want to get half way into this and need to do something else.

brownboy

That is the position of the LEDs...took me an exhaustive amount of trial and error (moving, assembling, disassembling, moving, etc.) to arrive at that...yours for the price of...FREE!!!

Max2k

Did you resistor the A/C ***** to 12v?

brownboy

I did resistor the LEDs to to drop the voltage to an acceptable level (to keep from premature burnout). Calculated using R=V/I...V being (12V - Vforwardvolt) and I being the current rating of the LED.

jonbee

cool i am doing this. so you used the radio shack 276-316 leds on the controls, but what resistor size did you use?

and so on the clock they are 1206's, resistors as well or no?

thanks!

brownboy

The clock 1206 LEDs do not require a resistors since it is a simple swap.

I added the resistors to the dash mod since it was a retrofit (replaced incandescents).

violent_b

Did you notice any problems using blue 1206's since the factory led's are 1.8-2v and the blue ones most likley are 3.5-4v?

brownboy

Calculating it out, you would need a 187.5 ohm resistor for each light socket. The closest one available of 220 ohms should do:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...Fid=271%2D1313
Connect a pair of the LEDs in parallel, with the resistor in series for each light socket.

I have had no problems with the ones I ordered from http://www.all4cell.com/.