Custom LED Gauges and AC unit, CHECK IT OUT Options

[My2Celi]

I found this to be very interesting...
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This post has been edited by My2Celi: Mar 20, 2007 - 5:54 PM

[Culpable04]

looks really good and for ~ 80.00 is not too bad

[My2Celi]

no one else is interested? im trying to see if there is enough interest so he can work on our gauge and ac units.

This post has been edited by My2Celi: Mar 20, 2007 - 5:55 PM

[bccentaur3]

so we send our gauges in and he'll work his magic and send it back?

[My2Celi]

yes and i think its a 1 day down time if you overnight it.

[GTS13]

Yeah he's really popular amongst the ScionLife community. I'd be interested in getting my HVAC controls done but I already did my gauges with led bulbs.

[blahblar]

im down. how many do we have to get for him to work his magic?

[My2Celi]

He's really busy so ima see if i can flag him down and get him to introduce himself on this site.

[DSToyo]

the color changing needles are pretty cool...i dont think i have ever seen that before

[j0e_p3t]

looks awesome. dunno if i'd do the speed color changing needles. with my st you'd never see the color change haha.

[My2Celi]

i love it cause i can finally be able to see if i can make it completely white, instead of that greenish white. Also it will be spread all evenly.

[GTS13]

Doing your gauges might cost a bit more since it will have to be custom. Our gauges use bulbs whereas the Tc and other newer vehicles just have onboard LEDs for their gauges. So he just desolders the old LEDs off and then solders the new colored ones on. He can definitely do our HVAC since it has the onboard LEDs, but the gauges would more than likely have to be a custom job for him.

[Negative]

Or maybe he could just make us some 194 style sockets to just install in the stock holes on the back of the gauges like the ones you can get online.
I'm very interested in the climate controls because they are the only things left in my car that are green and bulb type.

[Mangozac]

I'm planning to this weekend make up some replacement bulbs from LEDs to go into my instrument cluster. I did some experiments last weekend and I've discovered a way to ensure that the lighting all stays even by using a diffuser on the end of the LEDs.

The plan is to use 3 super insanely bricght LEDs in place of each of the three 194 bulbs. And making up little adaptors so you can mount them in the stock bulb sockets will be pretty straight forward.

I'll take some pictures during the process and write a how-to next week.

Zac

[Negative]

Sounds good. I need some red ones cause my LEDs are spotty

[tomazws]

I'm interested.

[Lovo]

I'm planning to this weekend make up some replacement bulbs from LEDs to go into my instrument cluster. I did some experiments last weekend and I've discovered a way to ensure that the lighting all stays even by using a diffuser on the end of the LEDs.

The plan is to use 3 super insanely bricght LEDs in place of each of the three 194 bulbs. And making up little adaptors so you can mount them in the stock bulb sockets will be pretty straight forward.

I'll take some pictures during the process and write a how-to next week.

Zac

if you follow through with this how to, you'll be my favorite person in the world... for about 2.3 seconds.

[My2Celi]

i think we already have how to. I change my bulb to LED but its just not spreaded evenly.

[stud97023]

Im very interested. If he is willing to do a custom job for us thatd be awesome, if not, im really gonna need a super detailed write up with lots of pics. Thanks guys

[Zimluura]

i guess it's worth mentioning the 194 smt tower leds at superlumination

http://superlumination.com/194.htm

haven't bought or played with any yet, but in the shots it looks even better than the 5-led matrix (and even more expensive too, wow)