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jamie16v
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
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Reply #10 on:
07 March 2009, 20:20 »
awesome write up.
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eightyeightmph
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
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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.
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.
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!
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eightyeightmph
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
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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!
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!
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davero
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
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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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Bobby_t_16v
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
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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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eightyeightmph
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Re: HOWTO: Light up the heater controls properly
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18 March 2009, 15:47 »
They just clip on/off so reverse of removal really.
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matt_1982
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Re: HOW-TO: LED heater controls....with photos
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25 January 2010, 17:29 »
Eightyeightmph where did you get your green leds from???
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