Author Topic: HOW-TO: LED heater controls....with photos  (Read 13345 times)

jamie16v

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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
« Reply #10 on: 07 March 2009, 20:20 »
awesome write up. :smiley:

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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
« Reply #11 on: 12 March 2009, 23:01 »
Had a play with a spare set of controls I have knocking about, used a couple more LED's (11 in all) to light it up evenly & white paint as suggested to dull the hot spots. :afro:

I've used one LED in the centre of each dial leaving the clear plastic in place to light up the tips, regretably the blue/red circles don't light up as I've used green LED's so I might add a couple of smaller white ones to rectify this. :undecided:

Taken on iPhone, look quite a bit better in person & the green is more OEM rather than the weird shade it looks on the camera!  :grin:





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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
« Reply #12 on: 13 March 2009, 19:45 »
The back all finished;



And one of it in the car, also got the ciggy lighter & ash tray lights working too!  :wink:



I will say, the ultra-green LED's arn't the same as the standard ones, I will have a play with the resistors I bought to see if dulling them down makes them any better all perhaps a layer of green paint behind the lenses?! But as you can see, the controls look heaps better & you can actually see what you're doing at night too! :afro:
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
« Reply #13 on: 13 March 2009, 23:44 »
Nice one, looks great. Got some leds for mine, maybe gonna do them at the weekend. Although i have 12 doors
to paint in my house.

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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
« Reply #14 on: 17 March 2009, 19:08 »
Out of interest how did you put the heater control cables back on.....was it a simple process ? ? ?

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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
« Reply #15 on: 18 March 2009, 15:47 »
They just clip on/off so reverse of removal really. :)
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Re: HOW-TO: LED heater controls....with photos
« Reply #16 on: 25 January 2010, 17:29 »
Eightyeightmph where did you get your green leds from???