05-04-2004, 01:43 PM
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I need to know the colors of the resistors as well, since it's hard to tell from the pictures. Can somebody help me out?
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05-04-2004, 04:00 PM
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They were red and purple for the center two stripes, and there's a stripe on one end which is a goldish/brown
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05-07-2004, 01:09 PM
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I think its somewhere in the 330 ohm range to make them 12 volt compatibe but they seem a lil too bright so i usually use high 300's to 4......whatever I can usually find in my box, if anyone is curious I went to kragen one time and found what looked to be replacements for the lil sockets in the back of the cluster so if no one wants to have to desolder a stock part and wants to be able to interchange if necessary I would say go there and check it out.
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05-07-2004, 01:11 PM
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oh and boarder it looks like yellow violet brown to me, which is something like 470 ohms its been a while with the conversion chart.
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05-25-2004, 06:57 PM
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Well, going on Sound_Xtreme's comment, I replaced each individual LED+resistor with three LED's, and the effects are way better! What I did was take a little tacking nail, and hammer it through the bottom of the condom to create 2 holes which were big enough to pass the wire through them. Then taking the LED's, threw them into series and put the end leads through the holes. This way the leads could be pased back up into the spaces where the stock bulbs came through, and soldered into place to form a nice, tight connection.
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05-25-2004, 06:58 PM
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Yeah... I know I'm a crappy solderer. What I would recommend for anyone else who's planning on doing this, is to get a low temp solder, because heating up the connectors on the condom enough to take the solder caused the plastic to melt a bit... but it worked.
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05-25-2004, 07:00 PM
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And finally, the final effect. As opposed to 5 LED's, there now are 15 in here.
Still haven't figured out a way to spread around the light more, but I'm thinking that they still look pretty nice IMO.
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05-26-2004, 08:23 AM
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looks good...i gotta say tho, u got a hell of alot more patience then i do...good work :thumbsup:
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05-26-2004, 10:39 AM
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looks hot, tho now i'm going to have to get more blue led's :thumbsup:
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05-26-2004, 12:34 PM
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Looks good scott, well done - any way to just change the needle's colours without bleeding the light elsewhere?
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05-26-2004, 06:22 PM
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Still haven't figured out that one AleroSS... Not too sure other than installing a LED that would sit right below the needle. Because I've been thinking that red needles would look goor with the blue gauge cluster.
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05-26-2004, 06:40 PM
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hehe, i didnt use the stock gauge cluster like you did tho to power them. i guess just too lazy? anyways i dunno if i mentioned it but i just wired mine into the dimmer switch where most run their indiglow gauges.
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05-26-2004, 11:32 PM
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ok im going to repeat something I said earlier. there are different types of leds, some that diffuse light sideways instead of straight out, those leds would probably be perfect for this mod, now if you have the halo gauges I dont think youd have this problem period because they seem way thicker then the stock ones prolly are and plus you have double thickness.........
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05-26-2004, 11:50 PM
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indiglow gauges, and halo gauges dont have any transparent parts i dont think. i know my indiglows dont. so useing the straight led's i could point them straight toward the needles.
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05-27-2004, 01:15 AM
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yea thats what im saying, but for others with stock guages it would be perfect
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05-30-2004, 01:16 AM
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ok, quick idea to spread out the light, i'd try it with test led's first though, so you dont waste a 3 led condom if it doesnt work.
take a piece of glass, put a huge glob of hot glue down, stick the led's in it where the light emits, let it cool, pull it off of the glass, cut the hot glue into a circle so that it fits into the gauge cluster, maybe even take some sandpaper to the hot glue, rough it up a bit, should spread out the light at least a little... and it shouldnt take but 3 mins to do this.... so it's pretty much win/win.... on paper anyway.
lemme know if you try this.
oh, and a quick note, if you use 4 leds in series, you dont need any resistors.
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05-30-2004, 02:48 AM
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or, you could just grind the rounded part off then sand it with like 2000 grit
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05-30-2004, 11:42 PM
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Thats more work, time and money spent than needed! You get the same effect when you replace the original white bulbs with blue "mood lights"!
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05-31-2004, 12:07 AM
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Quote:
take a piece of glass, put a huge glob of hot glue down, stick the led's in it where the light emits, let it cool, pull it off of the glass, cut the hot glue into a circle so that it fits into the gauge cluster, maybe even take some sandpaper to the hot glue, rough it up a bit, should spread out the light at least a little... and it shouldnt take but 3 mins to do this.... so it's pretty much win/win.... on paper anyway.
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Very good idea... I was thinking about something like that, and will probably mess around with it in the coming week. I've got a few days off, but first on the list is clearing my driver's side corner (I did the ps the other day), and re-mounting my fogs. Then I'll be messing more with these LED's...
Ahhhh... the joys of a week-long break from summer courses, and it being the slow time at work.
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