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Old 12-21-07, 1:48   #1 (permalink)
KING6
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Cool leds in my needles, man

So I messed up and got the wrong size led for my tail light project.. I orderd the 3mm instead of 5mm. These are way to small for what I want to do.. so, I got creative with my other set of gauges (from parts car).

A few hrs later, I got leds in my needles... I did some experimenting and scraped off the yellow paint on the mph and tach needle.. the gas and temp are still stock. Scrapeing the paint off was a bad idea.. they light up much more brighter with the paint (as you can see the temp and gas needle are super bright..)

Anyway, they were just for the hell of it.. I think I might have ruined the mph motor thing..it doesnt return back like it used to.. it just sticks where ever you spin it to.... Ill probaly take the modified plastic peice and swap them with the ones in my mx6..so it has the led needles.
Also some of ya may know I made a laser needle how to a long time ago.. That how to basically replaced the standard bulbs with leds.. It didnt light up the needles nearly as much as these do.. Also that created hotspots ( i used tape on the gauge face back to cover hotspots) and ment you couldnt have needles a seperate color from the numbers.





















I also made a small shift light to replace my large proform one, the proform was to obnoxious.. I made a bite size one with 6leds and is much brigher.. I gutted the old shift light and used the internals to control the new one.

I still have a ton of these little leds..

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