lol SLOAN is litteraly 1/4 mile from the dealership where i got my box... I should see if they wanna make a light system for my ride...

 

Where have you found the 1106's in blue? I have had a hard time locating 1106's and can seemingly only find 1206's. Mark

 

I used 1206 and they worked just fine.

 

Nice write up and hope all works well for me.

 

I am gearing up to green out my consol. I have not soldered in over ten years so I bought some kits off the link below to practice. They also sell LEDs pretty cheap. I will let you guys know how it goes.

http://www.goldmine-elec.com/default.htm

 

can you guys please tell me what intensity your using, I'm going to do the blue ones this weekend but dont know if I should get the 12 or the 75 mcd ones, I want it blue, not 4 neon dots on a blue background, thanks

 

get even brighter than that if you can. I can't remember what I used for sure, but I think they were about 150 mcd.

 

but wont that create the spotting, i'm trying to keep it evenly diffused as much as possible

 

my pics above are so bad it's hard to tell, but the spotting is minimal. If the place your getting them from has 75 and 150 I would go ahead and order both, it should only be about $4 extra and you can pick the one that works best. I know the 12 won't be bright enough.

 

http://www.eled.com/product.asp?cata...Fid=EPL3015PBC

those are teh ones I'm planning on, unless someone shows me a different one installed, i'm just going to hope these are bright enought but not too bright

 

Use the highest MCD you can get. The spotting is very little even with 150 MCD. To reduce or eliminate spotting put a piece of wax paper the same size of screen in front of LED's. I got my LED's from eled.com and they are super bright.

 

can someone please give me a link to the 150mcd ones, teh highest I can find on eled in 1106 is the 75

 

seems these are the exact ones I'm after, thanks for the PMs

http://www.eled.com/product.asp?cata...Fid=EPL3015MBC

 

If you need LED's, let me know. I sell them.

 

Be very carful when bending the metal tab. I have taken my cluster apart several times and as a result my tab recieved a stress fracture and then broke off. I am not sure what the tab does. I ended up just making sure that there was a connection at the fracture point and screwd the screw on with enough pressure to hold it down.

 

ok I skimmed the thread and couldn't find what I was looking for. What is the voltage coming from the board for the leds. I changed my buddy clock leds and two days later two of the leds burnt out.

 

I did mine today. Thanks for the great write-up!

My camera doesn't do well at night so the color and brightness is way off. The clock is brighter than the speedometer but it doesn't look like the pic.

 

Wow, very nice. Camoflauge? Also, the clock does look brighter than the speedometer in the pic.

 

Thanks! Yes it is camouflage. Here's a flash pic. The flash ruins the colors in the pic but it gives a better idea of what the face really looks like.



Here's the design:

 

coool! nice job!