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I am going to do the dorr handles with the whites when they come. Any one know what color wires i should splice into to have them come on with the window light?
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not sure yet, take some pictures, as I need to do those for my 99, can't go without them, I am doing something special, the up arrow will be blue, the down will be white, this will be in all the switches.
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I guess i'll go ahead and post this here becasue this seems to be where the LED modders are looking. But ya, i got the 74 incandescent replacement LEDs for the cluster yesterday. And well, ya i was kinda dissapointed. Let me just say first of all, i have full indiglos and they are very bright. I bought the red 74 LEDs from SBL to try and get my needles red, but well ya, they aren't exactly "superbright." In order to get even a little red on the needles you have to turn the guages all the way down, and when they are at full blast, you truly can't tell that they're there. So in conclusion, i would say the 74's from SBL aren't ideal for ppl with full indiglos. At this point not sure what i'm gonna do; possible ideas: -Keep the 74s in there and try to add more red leds in the housing or just make my own incandescent replacements -Paint needles red; i'm shying away from this becasue i don't wanna remove the needles then have to deal with speedo calibration -Paint the incandescents with red porcelain/glass paint or use those red bulb condoms Not sure what i'm gonna do yet but i was kinda dissapointed. 
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Originally posted by amarv12:
I guess i'll go ahead and post this here becasue this seems to be where the LED modders are looking.
But ya, i got the 74 incandescent replacement LEDs for the cluster yesterday. And well, ya i was kinda dissapointed. Let me just say first of all, i have full indiglos and they are very bright. I bought the red 74 LEDs from SBL to try and get my needles red, but well ya, they aren't exactly "superbright." In order to get even a little red on the needles you have to turn the guages all the way down, and when they are at full blast, you truly can't tell that they're there. So in conclusion, i would say the 74's from SBL aren't ideal for ppl with full indiglos.
At this point not sure what i'm gonna do; possible ideas:
-Keep the 74s in there and try to add more red leds in the housing or just make my own incandescent replacements
-Paint needles red; i'm shying away from this becasue i don't wanna remove the needles then have to deal with speedo calibration
-Paint the incandescents with red porcelain/glass paint or use those red bulb condoms
Not sure what i'm gonna do yet but i was kinda dissapointed.
sorry never stated this before, these LEDs I sell and others out there don't work to well with indiglo's of any sort or kind. Due to the fact the Indigo's usually give the needle tint/color, making it harder to see the color from behind the gauges. If you want, ship them to me. How many did you get. I will sell them for what you paid. I can sell them quicker as, I am the one everyone goes too for them, so they expect them from me, not just a single person. As for painting the needles, you ever see a drop of water on a piece of plastic, its a nice round drop, it doesn't flatten very well. Well, paint doesn't like to go on the back of needles for similair reasons. Some of done it, but personally it looks like poo. As for the other stuff, try them out, but with indigo's you aren't gonna have to much success.
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Ya, i kinda feared that the brightness of the indiglos would make it tough. At this point i think i'm gonna leave it as is for a while, then once this semester is over try to mount some more red LEDs in the housing. At that point i'll hit you up for some reds and resistors. However, there was the one user Buttonpuncher (the one that modded the output range on the transformer) and he used red LEDs back there, and his needles lit up pretty nicely, granted i bet his were a lot brighter probably. But i dunno, school is killing me, i wish i had more free time, so many mods i wanna do.  Here's Buttonpuncher's thread. Very inspirational. 
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Originally posted by parkedcar:
I am going to do the dorr handles with the whites when they come. Any one know what color wires i should splice into to have them come on with the window light?
I thought there was just an empty harness sitting by the handle inside... that may just be pre98...
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Ok so do you have any inventory of what I should buy from superbrightleds.com before I buy from you? Ive got
5 WLED-R Red LED bulb
5 BA9s-R Red LED bulb
that all the tutorial says I need I think. Also , does every LED replacement require soldering and a resistor? Or are there a few I can do without soldering?
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let me figure that out, gotta friend over right now, just checking in on things. give me 30.
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got the last set of LEDs, that were sent from the manufacter, turns, out they didn't ship the following items
50 3mm white
100 3mm blue
50 5mm blue
and 250 560 ohm 1/4 resistors. I will be gettin these items out asap. BK, i will be sending 25 3mm and and 25
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