L.E.D.'s for my Speedometer Options

[WannabeGT4]

You might wanna try swapping a couple of them around, like P5ycho said, to get the light spread a little more evenly.

[Magic]

Few photos from my speedometer...





Sorry for the bad quality..

[SveNRG]

Damn, my xenon white refractor leds (cheap chines ones form ebay) have developed a problem. The middle one in the gauge cluster keeps breaking down. It worked fine for a month or so, then started flashing like a broken light in a highway restroom I replaced the LED bulb... broken from the start! Replaced with another (yeah i got some spares) and it worked again. But not for long. After a week, the same flashing problem. What do you guys think? Electrical problem or just crappy leds? The outer ones are the same kind and work fine.

By the way, a friend of mine took apart a spare cluster gauge unit he had lying around from his ST205. We looked at the inner workings of the lighting. It's actually a solid clear plastic disc what's behind the gauges, that has a little curved extension to it. And that is where the light bulbs are placed. The light then spreads through the whole disc and illuminates evenly. I think the problem with the LEDs is that they are just too bright for the disc too spread evenly. That's why the multi-direction 5-LED bulbs that I have make no better illumination than single direction ones.

I think I'm gonna try some 5W parking light bulbs - like mentioned on the first page of this topic - before I shell out to get Matrix leds.

This post has been edited by SveNRG: Jan 5, 2007 - 3:57 AM

[kCed]

Few photos from my speedometer...





Sorry for the bad quality..

nice wut kinda bulbs are those in there.....

any link to where i can get them...my car is dark green and i want to change all my lights to that color green in your pic....

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