sorry meant resistor...edited the last post

 

how many OHMS are your resistors, 510 or 470?

 

470

 

You probly overheated the LEDs when soldering, which melted the plastic and allowed the leads to shift around inside causing it to stop conducting and take out all the LEDs or short ciruit and bypass an LED. You will need to replace a defective LED. Remember they don't need much heat and solder should only be used to bond two pieces of metal together. Solder is hot as hell and will tear up your plastic. You need to be careful and make sure you're only using enough to make your bond. Solder will retain heat and transfer it through the leads into the LED. It acts as a resivoir in large quantities on such a small piece of electronics.

A few things I've found to be helpful when troubleshooting LEDs is a 3V battery, a 9V battery and a 15V power supply.

You can get a 3V battery from Walmart's watch section. It will let you know if a single LED without a resistor works. You can test LEDs before and after you solder them into a circuit. 3V only works for Blue and white. You can use them on red for a short period of time. A 1.5V battery is what you should use on yellow/green LEDs.

A 9V battery is for testing a LED in a circuit with a resistor. It will only tell you if it works or not.

A 15V power supply will tell you if the LEDs will work in the tiburon without blowing up. My power supply is actually a 12V power supply which has been shorted one too many times and has become a 15V.... You know, whatever works though.

 

wait, are you hooking them up in series and using a resistor for each LED?

 

That was the last way that i tried to hook it up, I know it says parallel, but i was just trying different ways.

 

For the record, doing a series-paralell LED lighting circuit is the most efficient way, but it won't make it look any different and it makes it more difficult to hook up, and troubleshoot if there's a problem, not to mention if one goes out, they usually both go out. You should stick to 1 LED and 1 resistor from the power and ground wires.

 

you know what I think my brains just came back to me, ill post back in a bit to let you know if i figured it out lol, I should also mention that ive been doing all of this late at night when I cant sleep, since its usually when i do my best work lol


edit:Alright well that didn't work....can somebody just post up the order in which they wired everything together....Im totally blanking on all of my electronic know how, and I dont like it lol

 

Does this help?



The green/white and green/black wires become circuits on the board eventually for the pictures on the buttons. The dials on the heater should be tapped separately. The indicators are separate lines all together and you can just replace a light with a led/resistor.

Did it help mang?

 

hey sorry just got home from work...yea its making more sense to me right now, so ill try it again later on...time for a nap now lol

Edit:I finally got them working now....Thank you guys so very much its gonna look awesome lol, im doing it up in red by the way, Thanks again everyone who helped out.