LED Conversion Help.

[jpetrovic]

Ok soo im changing out the leds in my Vent, Hi-low, Heat, Rec, Fresh ect... buttons What LEDs are the correct ones? i am going to a radio shack tommrow to get theses LEDs i just need to know the correct specs. i want to get blue inplace the Green lights and Red inplace the red/orange ones.


Also I have the Hi-Low/ cold-hot controls out aswell. i was wondering what type of resistor and led should i use. i just want to place white bulbs in there to enhance the brightness of thos controls.

I've looked at many threds and couldnt find specs. soo all u lighting experts i need some Help !!

[Civic Accord Honda]

PM BITESIZE he is the L.E.D master on here

[jpetrovic]

yeah but i havent seen him in on in awhile. i need to get this done pretty fast b/c i allready have them off the car due to an electrical problem, i will post a vid about this in another post b/c its hard to explain.
but i shall pm him. other then that does anyone know anything about this?

[Civic Accord Honda]

he was on yesterday me thinks but yeah i wish i could be more of a help

[Vanilla Sky]

Radioshack will get really expensive really quickly. You can get a plug-n-play solution for the price of the parts at the shack.

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=CAR

[jpetrovic]

thanks for the help i just got a hold of Bitesize hes helping me out :D

[JBona]

how big of a pain in the ass is it to convert all the dash lights to something brighter and maybe whiter?

[BITESIZE]

God I'm good. lol Everything you need to know is in this here thread...

http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56205&highlight=bitesize+led

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/379000-379999/379742_424_full.jpg


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I made all of these when I just barely figured out how to solder. Now I'm sure I could make a kick ass set of cluster and button lights.

[LX-incredible]

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3299/vbpgimageuo0.jpg

[jpetrovic]

:O bitesize, thats exatly how i want my buttons too look like !!!!

[jpetrovic]

how big of a pain in the ass is it to convert all the dash lights to something brighter and maybe whiter?

well im about to do it. i have general knowledge of soldering and i allready have mine off buttons/gaudges the car and bitesize hooked me up with the LEDs its not soo bad. i think i will have it done in about an Hr or so? i hope:)

[MessyHonda]

i need leds

[89sei89dx]

i wondered . i already changed most of my dash lights to led . but i was one short. the leds i did have already had a resistor of about 570 ohm wired to each 2 of them. there is two leds and one resistor to each lighhht i took the original light out and soldered the leds and resistor to the plug. but i have got another led and im tryin to figure out what resistor size i need to use for just one led. i figured around 350 ohmsor so .but wanted input. i dont know how muchh current actually goes to eachh light.like the car runs off 12 volts but i thought maybe each light may be gettin a smaller amount of current where they plug on the circuit board

[clark_486]

if you want LEDs DONT get them From Radio Shack. Insted, go to a store and buy a 50-100 strand of LED x-mas lights. Lots of colors to chose from or get the multi color strings. you will spend less then 10$ on like 60$ worth of the things. I just got a 70 strand multi color for 6.90 its got blue red green and yellow. The two packs from Radio shock are like 2-3$. Also. to mount the leds i used 1 470Ohm 1/4W resistor. trim the anode[+] side of the LED and one side of the resistor down to about 1/4" and solder the two together. Then i used some smallish shrink tubing that ended up being about 1/4" inch across after heating. Stuck a small peice over the leads and resistor so that some stuck out the bottom shrunk it and then bent the leads up to replicate the contacts on the bulbs from the dash and stuck em into the sockets. [do this with dash lights on or test the polarity of the socket first as the leds only work one way.] very cheap and easy mod. ask for pics if you want any as i will be doing some more of this prolly this weekend. These should plug directy into the sockets on the gauge cluster.

http://mihl0g.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pppZwNoGzSjMoPZrWbvN-jXctiBdQO05nOcgZeU0l7VlNP1I1usIv16gA0KU0I8BhNJSmhE shA4VsGix_wev_-g/LEDthings.jpg

[Rendon LX-i]

http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/1742/1421/4353210043_large.jpg

Heres mine but there not working so i have to go back and change the resistors the blink and thats it lol but here is when i first did em


http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/1742/1421/4353210044_large.jpg

How u get the names to light up.how did you mount the led meaning. i couldnt figure it out bitsize.

[Civic Accord Honda]

im working on converting my civic but i dont know which resistors to get =/

[clark_486]

try 440Ohm 1/4Watt