LED's for HVAC
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LED's for HVAC
I want to add blue and red LED's to my HVAC controller. Please tell me how to wire approximately 15 LED's together to be powered by one lead. I want to do this standalone and leave current light bulbs intact and eventually shut the regular bulbs off. Any suggestions? I have a damaged HVAC controller to mess with. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by spdnman
I want to add blue and red LED's to my HVAC controller. Please tell me how to wire approximately 15 LED's together to be powered by one lead. I want to do this standalone and leave current light bulbs intact and eventually shut the regular bulbs off. Any suggestions? I have a damaged HVAC controller to mess with. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by BrianWe
No way there is enough room on the circuit card for two sets of lights. Just to get the LED resistors to fit requires a fair bit of time with a dremel too.
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Originally Posted by BrianWe
No way there is enough room on the circuit card for two sets of lights.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ight=Neo+Wedge
and
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1441127
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Originally Posted by DBFCO2
I attempted this change over it is not easy, I could only get half my lights to work. If anyone out there is willing I will pay them to convert mine.
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Originally Posted by spdnman
I do not see why I cannot put the LED's directly in the buttons and powered off another lead. looks like plent of room in each button.
Also I haven't looked too closely at the existing power circuit for the bulbs, but if if there are multiple entry points for the +12V power then it will be nearly impossible to disable all the existing bulbs with say one switch. You will have to cut multiple leads off the PCB, short them together, and run them in series with a switch to turn off the bulbs. I would just look at SPDKILZ tutorials http://www.spdkilz.com/techtipledhvac.html
on his site and I think you will be very pleased with the LED look all the time.
Later,
Max
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From: Torrance CA
Originally Posted by warpster
I agree with that but they are supposedly easy to change out...look here
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ight=Neo+Wedge
and
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1441127
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ight=Neo+Wedge
and
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1441127
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From: Torrance CA
Originally Posted by Max01GreenMachine
Your idea is interesting. However I don't think there is enough room between the button membrane (rubber) and the buttons for another set of lights (LEDs with resistors). If you get the LED's too close to the buttons then the emitted spot of the LED will only illuminate part of the button.
It may be possible, but I would just go with LED's. They look awsome. Here is my car.
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Very nice!!
Do you have any more pics of your stereo system??
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Originally Posted by SpdKilz
Woah....that is very interesting pk1! Do you have any install pictures? Also, how do the buttons still work with the way yours is set up?
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Originally Posted by zleehw
I want my car to match the pics.....all hyper blue in color..just no dvds screen.
Who ever can do it...get in touch aso we can talk about time frame and cost.
Who ever can do it...get in touch aso we can talk about time frame and cost.
Im currently doing two other HVACs right now. I can do yours in BLUE no problem. I won't be doing it pk1's way though, thats just crazy. PM me if your interested.
Later,
Max