petesavan said:Many thanks both of you for your responses. I'm wondering now about changing to LED dashboard lights too as the original ones are pretty dim, but I guess you'd have to by pass the dimmer part of the light switch to get them to work wouldn't you?
Lee152 said:aogrady has done it, saw it on a thread awhile back.he used banks of square ones but not sure where from. Search LEDs and you should find it.
Thinking about doing myself if I can ever get the damn interior light to work in the first place!
Lee
madman said:If I remember right, I pulled the innards out of the warning lamp holders and inserted the LEDs straight in making sure one leg made contact with the back of the instrument housing where the old contacts were. The other leg went through the housing and I soldered a suitable resistor (google LED resistor calculator to get the correct value for the LEDs that you pick) to that leg before attaching a spade connector. Remember of course that LEDs only work one way round and you may blow the LED if you put it the wrong way round.
aogrady said:Hi!
Buss69! You led's are epic!, great write up!
I used them on my westy light as shown above, and on my brake/side lights, front indicators, but left the rear indicators, for the reasons you mentioned about the flasher..
Cheers,
Alistair
madman said:My Gen light LED doesn't flicker at low revs, may be my resistor is of a slightly larger value.
As for courtesy lights, I built my own from LEDs.
Works a treat!
I'll try and get a photo of my dash board later for comparison if you like.
Actually I did!! But my son used them to build a Tesseract for my daughters birthday!! :lol:aogrady said:......... I assume you brought some more of those for the rest of the class... :lol:
Cheers!
Alistair
madman said:As promised, here are a few pics of mine.
My DIY LED courtesy light.
My purple LED backlit dashboard with LED indicator lamps.
Buss69 said:Nice colour. The courtesy light looks great, have you got a dark coloured headliner?
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