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by **Hercules Q. Einstein** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:52 pm

I've just seen this item on e-may

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... otohosting

Can the standard Aircon controls be turned into blue simply be changing bulbs or something like that?

by **ftolam13** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:32 pm

kool is it just the light bults?????????

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:08 am

The guy is selling the whole unit .. It's a 20-30min jobreplacing the bulbs with leds..only difficult bit is to diffuse the light to avoid "bright spots".. Mine lights up blue..

51gbp is crazy money..

by **DirtyLopez** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:02 am

Muad_dib77 wrote:The guy is selling the whole unit .. It's a 20-30min jobreplacing the bulbs with leds..only difficult bit is to diffuse the light to avoid "bright spots".. Mine lights up blue..

51gbp is crazy money..

Agree Muad... I will do this myself next week for 10€ (leds)

by **Hercules Q. Einstein** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:49 am

Hey...
What exactly do you mean by "diffuse the light to avoid "bright spots"?

I'm gonna give it a go during the week, reckon it would compliment nicely with a head unit with a hazy blue display and hidden blue neons throwing light on the floor.

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:38 am

LEDs generally have a quite tight "light beam" and as they mount quite close to the back of the display they have a tendency to create brightspots. However you cam overcome this by coating the tip of the led - our by purchasing diffusercaps..(about 10c a pop).. The trick is to kill enough light to avoid the spots, but let enough come through so the display is readable.

by **Hercules Q. Einstein** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:32 pm

I've stripped out the Aircon unit and got the 4 LEDs out no problem.
Where can I get blue LEDs of that type.
I'm gonna try Maplin and Halfords tomorrow.

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:49 am

I think it's I got mine from..

www.ultraleds.co.uk

by **Dadikool** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:14 pm

is it easy enough to strip air con controls out as i did this to my last car and it looked nice

cheers

Dk

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:15 pm

It's not too bad - as far as I remember it's only 8 screws in total..

by **Hercules Q. Einstein** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:44 pm

RE the small LEDs that you remove from the back of the Aircon unit.
Can you remove the LED from the black holder and replace with a new one or are the LED and holder sold as one unit?

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:39 pm

Seek and you will find my friend..

http://www.fto-ireland.com/forum/phpBB2 ... t=led+dash

If you dig around a bit there's loads of stuff here..

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