Dash LED's

[R 6UY S]

A couple of questions.....

Firstly, dose anyone know if the supply to the little orange LED's next to the window switches is 12 volts? I am Putting blue LED's in my dials and am going to change these to green to match all the other switches.

Secondly, blue LED's for the dials. I have seen numorous pictures on here but with mixed results. I believe the water temp/oil pressure guage needs to be a wide angle type or it will be too dull? Same for the speedo? Who is happy with there results and what LED's did you use? Pictures welcome. :-)

[pmessling]

Here's mine with the LEDs. I now have an SPA dual gauge in blue for the water temp oil pressure which will match





This was my speedo and rev counter light



I followed the thread on here. All was okay except the speedo/ rev counter as I have the digital mile counter

[Tanguero]

I have the RS Components part number for the window switch LEDs at home, I will put it in the equivalent parts thread this evening. They are available in various colours and do not need any additional resistor. If you want green ones I may even have a couple left from when I did mine.


ETA: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/visible-led/2292431/
RS Stock No.229-2431

Edited by Tanguero on Wednesday 16th May 23:20

[Rufus Roughcut]

Depends on your level of fussyness

Here's my first attempt



you'll see the speedo and oil/temp gauge is not as bright as the rest.

This is as close as I could get to uniform brightness..



It took a combination of hyper bright, Ultra bright and wide angle to achieve this, anal I know

To give you some idea, I had to crush a standard incandescent and use the base to solder in a led I'd found that different manufactures produced leds with different hues, the ones that sold the bayonet type didn't sell the wedge type

It's been a while now..I think I only used one led of a possible two in the rev counter

[G9RGE]

Yes the orange LEDs near the window switches are supplied with a 12v supply. I changed mine for blue LEDs . I ordered a set of 10 3mm with resistors for about £1-2 as I changed the light on/off switch at the same time.
Just soldier a resistors onto the positive of the led, hot glue gun them in and hey presto

[Tanguero]

There should be a 470 ohm resistor in the wiring for the window switch LEDs already. You shouldn't need to add one. The originals are not 3mm round but rectangular ones with a short light guide on the front.

[morebeanz]

Top tip - don't bothered with coloured LEDs if you have black dials...