hey everybody im looking for pics and maybe a quick write up of changing all the leds in the door panels,radio,climate. if anybody could help and post pics id appretaite it.

 

 

I hate you, I want leds too...

 

that looks good

 

I'm curious if anyone has it with orange LED's...sort of like how the 6th gen or my wife's SE-R has. Oddly orange seems to be the easiest on my eyes at night.

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That is bright. what type of bulbs do you have for the gauge cluster, Knight yyz? could you send me the link where i can get that bulbs and what kind of modifications do i need?

 

the bulbs in the cluster are 1/2 watt straw hat leds. Got them off of ebay. I had to go to an electronics shop to get the proper resistors. The led's are white by the way, but the cluster comes out blue with the OEM overlay that is in there. But it normally looks green because the OEM bulbs look yellow. yellow plus blue gives you green. They look brighter in the pic than they really are because I used a long shutter speed for exposure. You can turn them down with the dimmer as well.

I tapped into the back of the cluster, soldered the wires directly to the back of the circuit board. Looks like ****e but you can't see it. here's a pic from the back...




These led's draw a lot of power, so I had to make 2 separate circuits. 4 actually because each signal light has it's own as well. There was no way I could run 4 led's on the same circuit and get enough power to have them light up properly.

 

As you can sort of tell, the positive lead for the led's is the brown plug on the left, the negative is the white plug on the right. I checked the FSM to figure out which was the power for the 4 cluster bulbs, and the negative as well. I also found the positive for the left signal and the negative, and positive/negative for the right signal.
I found a site online to figure out the resistor size for the led's and it worked out that I could only use 2 led's and a resistor per circuit.

ignore the green wires, they are for the speed sensor for my d3 HU, and my wideband.


here's the link for the led's.
http://cgi.ebay.com/10PC-0-5W-StrawH...742.m153.l1262

 

basic writeup for 02-03 gauge only

http://www.torontomaxima.com/forum/v...?p=20028#20028

 

Knight yyz......very nicely done.The blue leds look awesome.

 

Our cluster looks green because there is a blue film between the bulb and our eyes, and the bulb is actually giving off yellow light. So blue film and yellow light equals green. I'm not sure how an orange led would look through the blue, but I know guys have used red and it didn't turn out purple. I used white and it turned out blue.

 

Thanks!

 

Everything here consists of custom-made LED arrays

Some of the lights were not on (vents), I'll be hooking those back up when/if my car ever get out of the bodyshop

 

thanks for all the feedback i think im guna have to do this now that ive got some clue how to

 

Here are some of my door panels,lic plate, and Interior lights. Wish I had LEDs like pics above, my gauges are dark now.

 

that looks good ive got about the same setup rite now im tryn to change all the bubs in the car to led esp the door panel buttons and radio to blue

 

You have the same setup by trying to change the door panels to LEDs? I have leds on my door panels. (a bit confused)

 

ohh my bad i was saying i have the same leds in the courtesy lights and dome and map lights i want to change the window lights from green to blue as well go with blue in the radio and climate control

 

oh gotcha ! I thought you wanted the "door panels" as well so that's why I posted my pics. GL though with your search.

 

i made some custom LEDS for my door markers

 

thanks man sorry blonde moment today i guess thanks for the pics i appreciate it

 

I have the window switches in blue, and courtesy lights and floorwells in white. I'll take pics soon, as my maps/dome are being redone.

 

I got my interior in red LEDs

 

how long have u had them and how long do they last?

 

I've had them for over 6 months with no problems so far