LED climate control Options

[Sloo94GT]

Has anyone put LED's in their climate control, if so what size LED's did you use and what resistors did you use?

[Spree]

I would be interested to see what your bulbs look like. If they use SMD's as you say then I doubt mine would be any different actually unless the SMD's in yours are dim for some reason.

I have found some variation in the plastics used for the instrument clusters that can cause that green tint. Some clusters come up really well and some don't....

The cluster in my JDM ST205 for instance is of the greenish variety and white bulbs look OK but never truly pop.

This is not a problem with the stronger colours like red, blue and green.

One area that my bulbs do help though is that I don't supply them glued into the bases so that they can be removed and fitted directly to the bulb holders.

This allows them to sit further away and light the cluster more evenly. This is mainly useful the middle speedo section as this causes them middle needle to light up much brighter and give a more pleasing look to the whole thing.

So a quick option may be to see if you can prize your bulbs out of the bases if they are not glued in too tightly (if only for the middle bulb, it doesn't make such a drastic difference on the other two) so you can at least get a better lit speedo needle.

You then just bend out the pins, slot the bulb into the holder and then loop the wires under the contacts. You may need to then trim off the excess wire. Just make sure that the two wires are not touching under the bulb before you refit.

This post has been edited by Spree: Nov 8, 2011 - 7:48 AM