Well, just wanted to tease you! We are minutes away from putting hte screen in to see it in all of it's blue glory! Just finishing up the last couple LEDs and will put it in shortly, so I'll have pics very soon.

By the way, he said the wattage he's using is a 42w, 700-degree soldiering iron. He said he'd rather be working with an "air gun", dont know exactly what that is, but he made it sound like its a little more specialty equipment for this type of thing.

 

I'm waiting with anticipation like a little kid the night before xmas.

 

ditto... i'm so jealous!!!!! i want a blue screen on my max!

HURRY UP!~!!!!!

 

I'll try to take some at night, to get rid of the glare, but its a bright sunny day right now. The screen is set on daytime and max brightness.

 

Omg That Is Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


however it does look like it's a little hard to read.

 

Wow - very cool ! Nice work.......Bob

 

I think it might be a little during the day, but then again, at the right angles and such, the orange was as well. We'll see how it is on the drive home tonight.

 

I've gotta admit, that looks sweet. The overall blue screen color is very excellent.

In the pix, though, (as someone has already noted) the numerals look a little washed out. And the bottom row looks a good bit brighter than the middle rows and the top one. Is that just a freak of photography or lighting, or are they different intensities after installation?

Mike

 

I think you'll be able to tell a little better at night, but they are all the same part #, so they should all be the same brightness. Could just be the angle of the screen, sloping back and the camera setting it's brightness towards the front part.

 

gotta get a wide shot with the info screen and gauges...

 

Well, the engineer wants to take it apart next week and start taking a look at changing the color of the radio and climate control buttons. So this may not be the ultimate end!

 

Well done Chris - looks awesome. Blue is the best.

If you get a chance when done, please redocument what to do, and the part numbers.


Thanks.

 

We're not worthy!

 

omg, looks hella good! still not crazy about the 80s font but leaps and bounds over the stock screen

hope the next challenge is making a dot-matrix version of that screen

 

Heh-heh ... wonder if the dealer would even notice at lease-end inspection that the info screen has changed colors. Verrrrry tempting indeed, just for a change. I'm a BMW guy, so orange displays are old hat to me, but that blue rocks.

Mike

Mike

 

Looks Fuggin sick - I am jealous!

 

That looks Hot.

Did you get any Night Shots yet?

 

I guess i cant have a blue screen. reason i went with the navigation was because of the nasty orange screen.

 

But The Blue Screen Is Very Nice. Good Job With The Led Swap

 

in case you plan to do another project like this, do you have any other colors in mind, like red or white led's?

 

Now you have to change all the lights that are orange in the car cuz thats not gonna look good.

 

nice job
looks great

 

Amber shows up in daylight better than blue which is likely one reason Nissan might have chose it. I be that blue looks nice at night though!

SLB

 

Those who want to experiment might be interested in this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=38650

Bob

 

Jaw dropping. Even if it is a little hard to read at night i can deal with that. That looks amazing. Great work, definatly a project im willing to undertake in the fall.

 

Still haven't had a chance to do a night shot, but drove home late last night from a weekend beach house and it looks better at night! It's not very bright, and the background glows bright blue while the letters show up a little more white, kind of the opposite of the factory screen (background stays black while letters glow color), but its a little nicer because it IS not as bright at night, so you see a little better out the windows when you're driving. It is hard to read during the day, which is no big deal, but you can see it perfectly at night.

 

Maybe the lower-output LED's are the ticket ... the spillover of light onto the rest of the screen should be less, and maybe the numerals and letters would actually show up as blue instead of overglowing to the whitish color.

Since you apparently have a lot of time on your hands, Chris , maybe you should get your engineer to switch them out for the other LED's. After all, this needs to be done in the name of science ...

Mike

 

Looks good man, props for all the hard work and especially for sharing the process with all of us. Main thing is you're happy with it and you are a pioneer of sorts

 

Note for chisaust - need some help???? WHich way did your guy put in the led's? The stock led's have 4 contact points, the ones I ordered only have 2. I put them in with the cathode mark in the same direction and they don't woek, and in fact blacked out the rest of the stock led's in that row. I thought I'd ask before I start unsoldering and resoldering and playing around too much. THANKS!!!!!!

 

Wheres the night pics?? love to see what it looks like while driving at night.

 

any new updates on your max or any changes (color-wise) to your Info Screen? .. and do you still plan on doing a dot-matrix version of the screen in the near future?

 

Wow, how'd you dig this up? someone recently posted about trying to find Chris. He's been MIA pretty much since he finished this project.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=346137

w/ a pic that is also on this thread of project and search for Chris. ^^^
also for the newbie that last posted in it, it's in the sticky "How To"

 

What if you swapped the info screen down in front of the shifter like some one else on the forum did and put a screen in place of where the info screen is. It will probably cut down on the glare, that what I'd do. So where can we get some one to swap out these led's out.