Blue dash lights (D9)

JD406 · Post by **JD406** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:36 pm

I've eventually got round to uploading the pics of my blue dash. It was quite easy to do just got to have a (slightly) steady hand

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Parm · Post by **Parm** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:27 pm

Looks the business mate. What did u use? Leds? How did you do the clock ones?

lozz · Post by **lozz** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:38 pm

very nice mate.
thats what idid with mine but had to stop on the heater controls,
iguess youve been soldering

Post by **Gary406** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:43 pm

that looks very good.

in some clocks the illuminator bulb is just a 501 side light bulb in a big holder.

i replaced mine yesterday with white LED 501 side lights. theres 7 in total on my clocks.

lozz · Post by **lozz** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:06 pm

The mfd is same as sidelight bulbs,
but the heater/aircon pannel is solderd in bulbs , smds ithink they are,

ihad abash at it but its very fiddly,

Post by **Gary406** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:27 pm

ye my main clocks use standard sidelights as well

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:32 pm

Didn't you need to scrub off the white stuff from the back of the MDF to get rid of the orangey glow. Love this though... looks very good, especially the clocks.

JD406 · Post by **JD406** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:16 pm

The clocks were smd bulbs that had to be soldered on just like the mfd. The bit with the clock was them twist in bulbs. The mfd had an orange bit of plastic on the rear, all I did to solve that was take it out and replace it with a bit of a cravendale milk carton then put blue lights behind it

. I've also done the cigaret lighter soket blue and all the window switches

kang · Post by **kang** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:36 pm

Looks very cool that

calvi36 · Post by **calvi36** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:32 pm

That looks absolutely awesome.

NineWhileNine · Post by **NineWhileNine** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:11 am

That looks great.
I want my dials like that too, but I would prefer the needles to be red. Would this be possible?
Cheers
Dave

JD406 · Post by **JD406** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:02 pm

It should be possible. Theres a white led under the needle that makes it glow white so i dont see any reason it wouldnt glow red if you changed the led to a red one.

NineWhileNine · Post by **NineWhileNine** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:30 pm

JD406 wrote:It should be possible. Theres a white led under the needle that makes it glow white so i dont see any reason it wouldnt glow red if you changed the led to a red one.

Cheers JD406!

Can I ask how many LED's you used for your setup? So I can make up a shopping list.

Thanks

Dave

JD406 · Post by **JD406** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:29 pm

I think I bought 30 smd's, 3 twist in bulbs and 10 of them little led's with the 2 long legs (sorry I can't remember what they are called). That did the mfd clocks and window switches.

What colour you doing if you don't mind me asking.

NineWhileNine · Post by **NineWhileNine** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:47 pm

Cheers Mate
I was planning to do the blue backlit dials like yours. I have since been massively put off the idea as it seems that it wont be a case of simply twisting out the old bulbs and replacing with twist in LEDs. Later dials are backlit by the those tiny LEDs mounted directly to the PCB.
Way too much faff, if at all possible.

406oc.co.uk

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