hey guys a couple ppl have asked me recently about my needles and my climate control and such and how i did it

i use wariow's write up for a lot of my info and just figured out the needles my self but i just redid my climate control by drilling into the clear plastic piece that is supposed to refract the light to each button and placing a 3 mm blue led behind each button instead of one led at the base of the clear piece that gets spread around

this prolly doenst make anysense lol cuz i suck at explaining but heres some pics i took

http://community.webshots.com/user/pavelsmax

 

Damn!!!!thats Hot!!!!

 

They seem alittle too bright. I'm blinded just by looking at the pics.

 

Nice job! I just redid my cluster cause the instruction in the stickies was making high & low spots. After installing many additional LED seems much brighter. I will also take your idea and install some more in my auto climate control.

 

they arent that bright... they are brighter then stock but not blinding... about a year or so ago i had red leds behind the buttons and these insanely bright blue leds below the buttons that showed which one was selected and they were blinding.. i didnt even use heat for a few weeks lol cuz i couldnt take it

thanks joey and sunten

joey if you can post pics of how u installed additionaly leds in your cluster im in the middle of doing my girlfriends accord and im kina lost as to how many im gonna need its similar to ours

 

Thats the first one I've seen that actually looks good IMO. Very good job.

 

good job, i wonder if this would work for us acc guys? ill have to get in there again and see, i gave up before cause i couldnt get it to look as good as i wanted it, guess i got something to do this weekend

 

I have some pic of the cluster from the first time I Moded the LED's. I'll post the after Pic tomorrow.
http://users.rcn.com/joeeey/Feb%205,2005/cluster.JPG
http://users.rcn.com/joeeey/Feb%205,2005/

 

Oh yeah, I had drilled holes between the printed circuit and added 4 LED's per gauge. Much briter and more even light. The only one which was a pain in the a$$ was the speedo due the built on circuit boad, I also added 2 LED per original light instead of 1 each.

 

dam thats hot

 

i'm interested in red. at what mcd red led that you had? was the red led is that bad?

 

if u didn't check ur inbox, just read this here pavel:

u just motivated me to reconsider doin the led climate mod on my car. i have thought about this for a long time but never got to it for various reasons. i have also been lookin at wariows site.
i need to know what resister rating did u use, i heard 80ohm is the best. anywayz, theres basically no wiring needed in this right? its just basic desolder and then resolder? did you use 3mm for all? did u use a red led for the hot section of the temp thingy?
also, where did you buy ur leds and resistors?
lastly, did u run into any problems doin this?

if you could kindly answer most of those, it would help me a bunch. thank ya

 

i'm not sure what mcd red i had they were bright if you look at the hot section on the climate control it has a red led in it now

they werent bad but my gauges were done with 194 bulbs and they faded out and i just decided to purchase indiglos and change everything to blue

personally i think if you could get your gauges to be evenly lit up with leds white would look the best... but im happy with blue

 

o yea my names not pavel its danny i just play hockey and am obsessed with pavel bure lol

heres the ebay seller i get my leds from

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQ...5QQsassZcwithk

 

what bulb in the maplight ??? thanks ...

 

take the bulb out and read the number on it

 

good job on the climate danny, nice touch on the refitting hte leds to avoid the hotspots. I think i'm getting too old for LED's, they apparently seem to blind my backseat passengers. "what the hell is that light? thing is blinding me!"

 

actually its 6 5mm white leds and resistors drilled in to the top housing in there i no longer have a bulb

its like wariow's domelight writeup only in the maplight

 

thanks im really happy with how they look... finally

i have gotten the same response from backseat passengers lol but now i think its at the right brightness a lil less blinding but i could care less what they say i like it

 

your leds look real good man, i might have to come see you to help me do mine, im in the burlington area.

 

Looks awesome!

 

is the group LED sale from CwithK still going on? does it make any diff from orderin off of ebay or going through paypal to his emailaddress? he sells them on ebay, 1 for 50blue leds +resistors for $7.50 but i couldn't find any in 3mm, so i might order 2 of the 10pcks of blue 3mm unless someone could answer my questions.

 

hes got blue 3mm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...874075464&rd=1

 

yeh i seen that one but the mcd rating is not 4000k like the others.
i don't want like half bright or the half blinding. then again i might get them if you can persuade me

 

Here is the before and after and after pic.
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/784221