I'm in Bergen County. I can come to you if you're close and have a clean work surface for me to work on.

PM me if you're interested.

 

wow...thats funny. Was just gonna make a post asking for help. I know how to solder, but I can't keep a steady hand (damn carpal tunnel). I'd defeintely love your help man, I live in Morris Plains. PM me, we cna talk.

 

Well I just had the lights done, and it looks perfect. I will try and get some pictures this weekend to post. I highly recommend IceNine's service, its perfect.

 

Had an interesting conversation with my 4 year old daughter this morning regarding you

Me: Sara, did you like our visitor Mike last night?
Sara: Yeah, he was pretty.

lol!

 

Oh, btw, I just did my tcover. 3 hours is about right Come on by if you need any help when yours gets in

 

haha.. wow... you got him on the same day?



you get those good resistors?

 

Yah, he came on the same day.... I used some 1/4W RS ones I picked up recently, not as wonkin' as the 1/2W ones I had in my earlier PCB.

And yeah, I've found that using wrapping wire to retrace works better. Less cutting to do when you have to clear said resistors. Just make the wrapping wire tight against the PCB (or hot glue it if you create any slack, I opted to just make the traces tight - always better to do so).

What wattage resistors do you guys get? 1/8ths? 1/16ths I would imagine are MAD tiny...

 

Im from middlesex county - i was going to swap mine out within the next few months ...so things went well?

 

yep. It's not a *hard* thing to do, it's just tedious. *VERY* tedious

 

Do you have any pics of this done? Bc i might be interested in it.

 

My girlfriend's brother is gonna be taking pictures soon. I'll post them ASAP

 

I have pics done of mine in white: http://www.weckstrom.com/scion/dash.jpg

I did another one today, I was going to take pics of his (in blue) but it's still light out and I doubt he'll want to stick around for a few more hours before it gets dark. Next one I do i'll make sure I get some pics.

If you decide to get it done, let me know. Just make sure you set aside about 3-4 hours of time. But don't worry, my daughter will keep you company

 

that white looks pretty nice w/ the orange needles. props! I would like to see the blue also.

 

Karl just did my Blue leds today, great job on his part...hes also one ofthe nicest people ive met....so if you need this done right talk to him...ill send him my pics tonight so you can all see tomorro...

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do that - i would like to see. How much time did it take?

 

Took around 3 hours I would say.

 

about how long do the LEDs last?

 

Impossible to say, I've never seen surface mount LED's go bad... The LED's are being lit well within their tolerances (they aren't being overpowered or anything). They should last as long as any other Surfacemount LED, including the ones that are there from the factory.

 

Hmm, then I'll probably end up doing it soon. Gotta wait until payday though lol...I can't decide if i want blue or white though...grr...decisions, decisions...

 

I ordered another 100 red and blue LED's for the weekend. I have enough still for one blue and one white complete swap if anyone wants one during the week. Blue seems to be the popular color, so I plan on stocking 'em continuously.