I am working on a project for the SEMA show and we want to change to color of the LED lights in the cluster. If you can do that or know how or even know someone who can do that please post it up! Thanks in advance

 

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i think you need to be more specific and i think youre in the wrong forum.

what cluster? what LEDS? othern than pulling the cluster and swapping the bulbs out the back, what else do you want to know?

 

http://www.civicforums.com/for....html

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by the_unknown &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i think you need to be more specific and i think youre in the wrong forum.

what cluster? what LEDS? othern than pulling the cluster and swapping the bulbs out the back, what else do you want to know?</TD></TR></TABLE>

The cluster is out of a Suzuki. There are LED lights that light the cluster. I need to find someone who can solder in different color LEDs to change the color displayed on the cluster. Its more that just swapping the bulbs.

What forum do you suggest?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Boilermaker1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">http://www.civicforums.com/for....html</TD></TR></TABLE>

exactly what i was looking for... Im gonna take the cluster apart tomorrow and see if the face is tinted like the one in this link OR if its actually the LED's that are colored. Thanks!

 

My boy can do that to any light in the car, all you need is the right LED and the right resistors.

The resistors look funny, they look like paper with lines in them Never seen them before

Hit me up if your interested!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rip94delsol &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My boy can do that to any light in the car, all you need is the right LED and the right resistors.

The resistors look funny, they look like paper with lines in them Never seen them before

Hit me up if your interested!</TD></TR></TABLE>

PM'd very interested!

 

these guys can definitely do it.very popular with the RC51 crowd.
http://www.bluegauges.com/
chris

 

I'd almost think the EL (electro-luminescent) wire strips would be a better idea if you're lighting behind the cluster like on that civicforum link. You get an even lumination (its just a wire that glows), and they usually come with inverters to run off 12 volts.

If you want to make the resistors yourself for an LED, use ohm's law: Volts = Amps / Resistance

To find your required resistance, take the 12 volts minus the voltage needed for your LED, and divide that by .02 amps to give you the needed value for the resistor: R = (12-[LED Volts])/.02

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HiProfile &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'd almost think the EL (electro-luminescent) wire strips would be a better idea if you're lighting behind the cluster like on that civicforum link. You get an even lumination (its just a wire that glows), and they usually come with inverters to run off 12 volts.

If you want to make the resistors yourself for an LED, use ohm's law: Volts = Amps / Resistance

To find your required resistance, take the 12 volts minus the voltage needed for your LED, and divide that by .02 amps to give you the needed value for the resistor: R = (12-[LED Volts])/.02</TD></TR></TABLE>

thanks for the info but i have rip94delsol working on it

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HiProfile &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'd almost think the EL (electro-luminescent) wire strips would be a better idea if you're lighting behind the cluster like on that civicforum link. You get an even lumination (its just a wire that glows), and they usually come with inverters to run off 12 volts.

If you want to make the resistors yourself for an LED, use ohm's law: Volts = Amps / Resistance

To find your required resistance, take the 12 volts minus the voltage needed for your LED, and divide that by .02 amps to give you the needed value for the resistor: R = (12-[LED Volts])/.02</TD></TR></TABLE>

Your right about that! But what you also need to remember is that if you put 6 leds you also have to use 6 resistors with the correct resistance

 

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Your right about that! But what you also need to remember is that if you put 6 leds you also have to use 6 resistors with the correct resistance </TD></TR></TABLE>

ya know you don't need one resistor per LED, right?

edit - heres what I started to do, and got bored . The cutout was for another 7segment LED display for an oil pressure gauge to be mounted there.










Modified by B18EG6 at 10:46 PM 8/6/2007

 

your right! you just need to resist the power to what you need and just hook them all up. Just like you did.

You placed the resistor before all the led's

thats some nice work! how does it fit with the circuit board?

Very clean though

 

I just changed out all the LEDs in a Scion TC. its not too hard to do. Just gotta becareful cause those things are tiny. its like 1.5mm wide by 2mm.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by viet_boi_racin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just changed out all the LEDs in a Scion TC. its not too hard to do. Just gotta becareful cause those things are tiny. its like 1.5mm wide by 2mm.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes, some are very small. but remember to make sure that the mA are the same as stock. If not you might run into a problem with them blowing something up.

The ones needed for this job are 4.0x4.0x3.6mm which is very small!

Got any pics?

 

the strip with the LEDs fits nicely with the gauge cluster in place I made that with some spare parts I had laying around and didnt put too much time into it.

Lemme know if you need help, I am very well versed in electronics

 

The 120 doesnt light up like i want it to lemme add another led to fix that... brb

 

Im gonna try B18EG6's LED segment setup... these LEDs were done by wire...

Here is another shot of it...



Modified by SMOOTHN at 11:21 AM 9/19/2007

 

Kkllleeeaaannnn!

 

thanks

 

Looks good. how many led's did you use? and what was the view angle on them?

 

I used about 15-16 LED's.. The LEDs I used were the regular ones with rounded tops but i cit the topff to spread the light output wider instead of direct... Im going to work on another DC cluster more clean im gonna try using plastic strips to mount the LEDs on like b18eg6 did...

 

I tried b18eb6s' method but i didnt want to cut up the cluster... so I did it my way but a little better i hope... this time i used 26 LEDs and aluminum tape foil... Im going to start doing other honda clusters... whatever I can get my hands on at the junkyard i will install LEDs to them and sell them for $100 for just the cluster housing w/o guages... $25 of that is for deposit of the housing, I will want you old one in return after you swap it out i will return the $25...

 

My contribution -