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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 02:53 PM
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any one put LED's behind their A/C controls??
again one of my ideas when im bored. sorry.
i was thinking blue? maybe red?
arent they small bulbs that are behind there? 2 of my stock ones are blown so im thinkin of upgrading to LED's?
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 05:39 PM
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I think that you have to use resistors with the leds, i dont really know. I'm interested in this as well, interior doesn't look right with only the gauges being blue.
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 06:28 PM
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This guy did:
https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=343293
and I think there's a guy at ls1tech who's actually selling kits to convert all of the interior lights to leds
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 07:06 PM
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I have done a LED replacement on my computer (really easy, just pull the old out and install the new one, no soldering) but nothing like this, it looks awesome. I will take look at mine when I install my new cluster.
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 08:03 PM
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seems pretty easy to do...you'd just have to put a fat resistor in. I wonder if I could fit a PCB back there to house the resistors and LEDs
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 11:09 PM
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do a search on a guy named MaCadayear he is the first guy to do his whole interior in leds, i have my cluster, a/c controls and door lock/mirror controls. you do need restrictors for the ac controls.
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Old Sep 21, 2005 | 02:10 AM
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You will need resistors whenever you use LEDs with a 12V supply. The only time you wont is if you get smart and lucky with the LEDs in series. (sometimes the forward voltage of the LEDs divides evenly into the supply voltage)
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