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my friend and i tried to install led lights on his climate control. we switched the stock led orange lights to white leds. but the white led won't light up when he turn the lights on, is it because the led doesnt dim (when the lights are on, the stock led lights dims)?

also we have trouble installing the 5mm leds to switch the light bulbs with sockets. i know it'll be easier to use a 3mm led but we dont know where to get the 3mm ones. also we dont know where the positives and negatives are to replace the socket ones. can some one tell me how to install with the 5mm?? or where can i get 3mm leds??

no1 can help me out??

you have to hook up 220 ohm resistors to each led......
they are not lighting up because ur blowing them out. get new led's and the resistors hook up the resistors to the positve on the led's
you can get them at radio shack.

later man
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thanx

ok, so i have to hook up the resistors to the leds to replace the stock leds also?
(the led we hook up to replace the stock leds works, just not when we turn on the headlights because the led does not seems to dim)

and also the holes for the stock bulbs (ones with green covers) does not indicate where the positives and negatives are, does it matter where i solder the leds or do i have to test it out to find the positives and negatives??

This post has been edited by poix: Aug 5, 2004 - 8:42 AM

More than likely you have the positive and negative reversed. If you look at an led closely it has a flat on one side. Match up the flats and you should be ok.

Since they were led to begin with you shouldn't need to add a resistor.

This post has been edited by AudioFreak: Aug 5, 2004 - 2:37 PM

you don't need resistors for the new leds that replaced the original unless they have different voltage requirements. The reason they don't come on when the head lights are on is because the new leds require more voltage than the original leds did in order to turn on. what are the specs on the leds your using? you might just cut the dimmer wire going into the ac control and they will stay on all the time, other wise you might need to think about getting a different type of led. as far as fitting the 5mm led into the 3mm place you might just file the plastic down. thats what i did when I modded my ps2 controller to have a blue led instead of red. Hope I helped.

thanx
well im using the one from oznium.
where is the dimmer wire located? i think i might have to cut it
thanx for the advice

Try and remove pin 21 or pin 8 from the connector. Cutting wires is the ghetto way and I shouldn't have recomended that. Just look in the connector to figure out how the pin is held in then bend the tabs down with a small screwdriver and pull it out through the back of the connector and tape it up. That way if it's wrong you can just slide the pin back in and bend the tabs back. Pin 8 is a green wire and is labeled ILL+ in the wiring diagrams. Pin 21 is White with a green stripe and is labeled ILL- in the wiring diagrams. If niether one of those are right try 9-14 they dont have any description on the wiring diagrams. If none of that works then the voltage must be being controlled outside of the ac control box and you should trace down the green wire and the white wire with green stripe and see where those lead you. Oh yeah, the clock dims as well as the radio so that might help too.

This post has been edited by WannabeGT4: Aug 5, 2004 - 10:44 PM

take some quality pics when your done I'd love to see how the blue leds look.

I have done this project many times.... so I can back up what I'm saying with experience and proof. If you want ur led's to be really bright. get 220 ohm resistors. by pass the holes for the bulbs and just run wires from a different location. I used a power source from the connector to the unit.

you dont need resistors for the led's on the board you can just solder them in you want resistors for the LED"S you use to light up the unit

pic of my led job


Pic of my paint method


good luck

I'm like a half hour away if you need some help later