hchhon

http://www.thewebworks.com/nuke/modu...bum.php&page=1

songoku

Nice~ I like this pic. Good Job.

hchhon

songoku,

Thanks for posting my pics here! I had completed the speedometer and the mileage LCD with white LEDs. After driving for driving my car at night for a few days I have noticed that some area is a little dimmer than other. I am going back to put more LEDs in there. About the mileage LCD the white LEDs make it look so nice to look at! No more yellow light!

All the dash lighting in my car is 100% illuminated by superwhite LEDs and superblue LEDs. I will have a much better pics to show you guys very soon! Too busy doing my tax this week!

CKacura

Did you change the instrument panel LID ?

BlackShadow

Looks great....want to do mine?

payyourtoll

Looks nice, but you're right, some dim spots. Add some more lights and get us some pics

Seotaji

1. was it hard

2. it must be super bright, do your eyes get tired?

hchhon

Seotaji,

It was not as simple as I was first thought. The mod required you to cut out some plastic molding to make room a home made LEDs cluster. Figuring out what part of the plastic to cut out is a daunting task. Just to give you an ideas how much plastic I removed: The orginal plastic hole that allow the OEM bulb to pass through is about the size of a quarter dollar coin. I have to reshape the hole and make it much much bigger and it follows the shape of the gauge face plate. Basically all the plastic behind the RPM, speedometer, and Fuel gauges are is almost completely removed. The next step is cut a breadboard for mountin the LEDs. This is the hardest part! There are not a lot of room in there to lay out a simple rectangle or square bread board because there electronics components in there are in the way. What I did is just cut my breadboard to match the allowable space that I can get. Remember you have to solder these LEDs resistors on the breadboard. Each board took me about 1.5 to 2 hours to solder and test. Each breadboard contains at least 8 resistors and 16 LEDs and each gauges need two cluster of LEDs. So you need at least 68 LEDs to cover all gauges. These LEDs cost me $3.00 a pcs from LEDtronics. I had to made some fine adjustment to avoid dark spots by adding more LEDs and bending them to get the right angle.
Who knows how many time I had to remove the gauge face plates. I have been removing the gauge face plates at least 10 or more time to get my lighting distribute evenly.
If you don't have the gut, patience, good soldering iron and technigue, and some basic electronics skill you can't do. For me it's OK because I am an electrical engineer and I like this stuff.

You will be amazed at night looking at your gauges! The illuminating is super white light and very warm look at. I can't wait driving my car at night! Oh! I forgot to tell you that my mileage LCD look so hot with 6 white LEDs behind it!

I have one guy in my town wants to have his gauge converted too and I am charging him $500.

I did to my AC and clock LCD with superblue LED and the look damn hot!
All control knobs and buttom are also converted to superwhite LEDs.

I will post my final results very soon! I take a few pics tonight just to give you an idea how it looks like! I will post them here tomorrow.



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hchhon

guys,

I just posted pics at http://www.thewebworks.com/nuke/modu...bum.php&page=1

Seotaji

can you dim the LED's using the factory switch?

hchhon

The dimmer still work!! I love it!!

Edub-TL

That looks so fockin badass.. I love that.. I wish I was more electronically capable.

payyourtoll

now it looks good man, nice job.

hchhon

These pics do not show the true color.

Guy I am opened for business!!