led conversion on a buddy's vehical


backlighting a instrument cluster









leds in cigarette lighter















and at my real job this is just one piece of equipment i've trained at troubleshooting.

 

Looks good man.

 

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what did you do with cotton swabs?

 

That looks awesome.

 

sweet. good question whats with the swabs? did you take some paint off the middle so like light would shine through or what?

 

oops is the shit

 

dang I wish someone that knew how to do this lived close too me..

im so afraid ill just mess somthing up....

 

he got rid of the stock diffusion on the back of the gauge faces with the oops. its there to make the lighting of the gauges more even when there are just single bulbs here and there in odd places. with the leds though, your lighting everything evenly, so there is no need for those little dots.

good job man, if i ever start up again im definately going to be stealing your way of doing backlighting. the way i was doing it before it was way to hard to get the leds in the position you want.

if you need some superglue, hit me up man. ive got a TON. its cheap as hell, but works just as good as crazy glue.

 

Did you use SMT LEDs, or some other kind? Whats the white around the bulbs up near the top of the post? Looks like whatever you put over the LEDs to keep them in place or something? Nice job!

 

I beleave the "white" is whiteout.