DIY: Bright LED's for aircon with no spotting experiment

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 6:54 pm

New DIY here: http://www.ftoaustralia.com/modules.php ... highlight=

lwrida · Post by **lwrida** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:16 pm

Good Stuff

I personally want to put blue ones, so once you put this DIY up I can try it out.

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:24 pm

I would like to do blue also ... So yeah, will keep an eye out for the DIY

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:36 pm

Updated with pics. Waiting on the white ones, but will let you know how they go, as i'd imagine they'd be pretty similar to the blue.

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:47 pm

Ok - just tried the white ones. Pretty rubbish! The display doesn't seem to like that colour for some reason...

Did however take the oppertunity while swapping back to amber, to disable the AC display dimming while the headlights are on:

1. Cut the Green wire with the white stripe, the 2nd wire in on the smaller plug on the back of the aircon unit. (Downside of this is it kills the outer 2 bulbs for the AC buttons. Soooo....)

2. Bend the legs of your outer 2 bulbs up, and wire them in parellel to the central screen leds.

A little bit like this:

EDIT: DEC 07
After all that, have ended up changing back to the standard bulbs - just not worth it in my opinion! It's a lot of work, for not much reward.

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:52 pm

Nice DIY!

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:22 pm

i just ordered some blue LED's, so if i just simply replace the bulbs with the new ones they will create the spots?

nice head unit by the way

lwrida · Post by **lwrida** » Wed May 28, 2008 8:16 pm

How many bulbs are in the unit altogether?

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Sat May 31, 2008 12:40 pm

4 bulbs... 2 for the screen, 2 bulbs for the buttons.

I ended up going back to the old bulbs for the screen in the end after all that. The white's just didn't have enough definition to see the screen propperly. Let us know how you get on though!

speedzone · Post by **speedzone** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:58 pm

the center 1 i done it with blue colour leds
erm to me oklah but got a bit spot
blue 1 comfirm u can see but if daytime bright sun hehehe
hard loh

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:35 pm

just got time to do mine today, pretty happy with it

i did it with blue and got the spots, dont bother me 2 much though