spidermanstC

hay squall. engifineer rewired the hvac unit. is this necessary or can the led's just be swapped??? really need an answer. want to do this before it gets cold!!!!

DriveEuro

If you run blue or white LEDs you will need to rewire it. Red, yellow, amber, green ..... all work without rewiring it.

SquallLHeart

^^ actually green needs it too... anything but red and amber.

i follow engifineer's rewiring as well as any other good led swapper out there such as paul (whiteblazer01), jeremy (garage1217), karl (icenine).. and then engifineer of course.. and anyone else that has done the led swap themselves.

snowbuddytC

is it just me or are the aftermarket leds on the 3bl a little brighter than the stock leds?

SquallLHeart

they're the same arrays as stock... must be the angle of the camera and the reflector housing.... but the output of the arrays themselves are the same... because yeah... it's the same array.. as.. yea.

snowbuddytC

haha ok cool then i'd like to do that when/if i ever get to change out my ugly orange lights =[

if you guys ever come doown to so cal please please please let me know :D it looksl ike you do a really good job :D

and you can stay at my house for a couple days if you dont wanna spend money on a hotel or something

titolito

After I loaded that picture of the 3BL on my computer, I noticed that too. I went outside to make sure they were even. They are. It has something to do with the angle of the LEDs to the camera, I think.

Skeletor

led headz are B.A.'s..

-SPANKY-

CLEAN! dang good job !

Setiri

Wow guys, amazing job. Is there somebody down south (Houston preferably) who can do this kind of job? If I wasn't so paranoid about pulling apart my baby to send off the guages and center cluster then I'd do it but uh.. yeah, I'd break something, I know it.

V0RT3X

Wow Trung, that's a nice soldering station, how much did u pay for that ?? I wanted to get one of those but they're just too damn expensive

SquallLHeart

mine cost about $250.. yeah.. they get pricy...

the one that i really like is about $1300... ...

and heheh..... back then when i was working for the gov't.. i didn't realize it.. but i was working with a $4K+ soldering station... the mother of all stations...... the Pace PRC 2000/E Benchtop Factory..



that was fun to play with....

Zyne

OMG i want this in blue...

but im in orange county 8o(

SquallLHeart

if you want to wait for my next socal trip.. that's fine.

otherwise, if you're impatient and have a little more cash to spend, my buddy paul (whiteblazer01) can help you out.

snowbuddytC

trung i for sure want to swap when you come back down here :D oh ya and when you do my leds could you solder a wire for me on my r/c car? it came loose a couple days ago and it wont run now =[

(right now i just put it under the metal clip but when it hits bumps it falls out)

SquallLHeart

uhh.. r/c car repair? omg.. don't you guys have your own cult? just go to an event with r/c racing.... you'll see people pull out their tents, tables... even portable generators...

but if you can't find someone to do it... then sure.

Dakine

HAHA!!! Your funny why dont u just say when u were at Great Lakes. I worked with the same product as you, only using single solders instead of multiple when i trained. Damn you E3's.

SquallLHeart

actually the soldering station was on the ship... USS Ronald Reagan..

great lakes can kiss my..... yea...

FTN.

ohh... i was promoted to e4 6 months after a-school.. and a month after i was on the ship i was e5...

so..

still... FTN.

snowbuddytC

you were in the military?

SquallLHeart

yea... seperated june of last year... served a total of 3 yrs, 9 months and 28 days..
got out of a 6 yr contract thru medical reasons... that and i helped speed up the paperwork by getting in a little bit of trouble.. so actually a month before i got got.. i was busted back down to e4..

i made e5 before i even turned 21... fast advancement was one of the perks of my job... but yea... job was nice... but military had more drama and BS than any other organization i've ever been apart of... people sucked.

oh... didn't help it either that i was stationed at the worst command in the fleet... the ship is cursed.