I bought a couple of those new ones for my HUD controller, mostly for the Page button to see if it would brighten it up some, but haven't had a chance to install one yet. Will try to remember to take some pics when I do. Really in no hurry to yank all that out again...just did it a couple weeks ago to fix an intermittant bad connection in the dimmer switch LED.

 

sure is, the engineer in me comes out all over the place when I work on my car. I've got full color AutoCAD drawings of all of the stuff I've done to the car. without them I couldn't possibly make sense out of all of the wiring! I've got places full of wires that had almost none stock...must be a sickness!

 

I thought I just posted these pictures somewhere...maybe that was something different. but here are mine. 9.5" LED strips in Red. the mounting foundation is 1/4" plexiglass, needed it only so the lip around the air vents would not hide the light. I cleaned and double sided taped them to the outside of the vents, running the wires inside was not bad at all, there's plenty of access.







I would like to see what they look like in Amber! pics when you get them installed!

 

Yeah they aren't easiest switches to get out... For the Page button I've been using a 3mm discreet w/resistor and inserting the LED into the hole and bending it so it's aimed right at the back of the button. The stock bulb location is just not in the right location for an LED to light it up correctly...

Tim

 

Ok i will deff need help with this. So far i have 28 Blue Type B LED Neowedge and 4 type A neowedges. Is there anything else i need? What bulb is the one that shines down on your hand when driving at night? I think stock is red/orange. Id like that to be blue as well... Also would like the rear view mirror lights hyper white.

Thanks for your help..

 

I figued as much, all of your DIY posts are just excellent!

Tim

 

194s for your footwell and cargo lights... Now please keep in mind that you're doing a very basic swap and the easist way to do it. The NEOs will give satisfactory results in most areas with some spottng, the problem areas have been addressed in the first page or two.

Several of us hosting this Thread did custom LED installs to make the lighting perfect so I don't want you to be mislead with the results you see in some of the pics in here compared to what you might get with the NEO install. The best thing to do is bench test your modded component to see if it is satifsfactory before continuing on to the next one... If you aren't happy with the result, post up and we'll guide you through some solutions.

Just an example, but this is a custom job that took some time and trial and error to get the light levels even across all the components;



But look at the "Door Locks" on the Driver's Door switch, it's still a bit dark in the pic. Although it's hardly noticable to the eye, I'm annal and use the digital camera to show flaws in the lighting... Anyway, I just don't want you to be mislead by some of the pics in here...

The "Helper" LED in the mirror is an Orange 5mm LED, IF (big if) you can crack your mirror case open without marring it, you can replace it pretty easily... EDIT: Matter of fact I have an extra Mirror laying around, I'll see if I can crack it open for you and get some pics...

Tim

 

Nice... I have screens over my Gills and I got a Spiderman comic book cover!





Cute huh?

Tim

 

Tim

I think I have one in my email notifications for that thread. I will look when I get home and post.

Gary

EDIT: It looks like the original thread is still locked.

 

Thanx Gary!!! Got your Email and forwarded the link to the powers that be...

Tim

 

Thanks Mike!
No problem. I'll post pic when done.

 

i installed blue leds in my hvac and it looks good but now they wont turn off. i can lock my door and come back the next morning and they are still on. what the hell did i do wrong? will this run down my battery?

 

Is anything else on? Not to state the obvious but are you sure your dimmer switch isn't turned on? Done that before myself.

 

Well the good news is they draw very little current. The bad news is this happened to me once ad I couldn't understand why but I didn't have the car here to work on it. It was a 98, your profile isn't filled out... what year is your Vette?

We can run some experiments if you'd like to try and resolve it. The same thing happens to the C6 courtesy lights when swapped to LEDs, I was suspeting that the lights weren't drawing enough current to let the BCM know they were on. Maybe adding a small resistor the the wire on pin 16 would help or a newer model HVAC...

Tim

 

Tim, thanks for doing this. I am considering doing my car in blue (car is navy blue metallic). I have followed your threads forever. You are **** and I love it. I will be contacting you. AGAIN, THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.

 

Beautiful Vette!!! The Blue interior lighting is going to look great in it!!

BTW Did you just call me an ***?

Tim

 

The results speak for themselves on this one!

 

Hmm thats strange. I have done all of mine doors, hud, dic, hvac, rear trunk button, rear view mirror and TC. They usually stay on for a bit after i turn the car off but they do go off. Have you tried turning the headlights on then back off?

I dont know what you could of done. You pulled the hvac out, unsoldered the bulbs and replaced them right? Did you put resistors in them? I never did.....

 

we're discusing it off line... I suspect the power board got fried by a shorted LED/resistor. That's the only thing I know that will cause this...

ALWAYS OHM out your lighting circuit after installing LEDs in the HVAC or RADIO to make sure there are no shorts between the positive and negative leads, then power them up with a 9 volt battery to verify all the lights work. THEN put it together and plug it in...

Tim

 

I have a few questions here....

Do the NEO Wedge leds still require resistors or are they plug n play?

For the HVAC swap, can you simply swap out the bulbs for the NEO Wedges and call it a day or do you still need resistors and what not? What is OHM out the lighting circuit?

Thanks!