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<blockquote data-quote="martiandancer31" data-source="post: 7599676" data-attributes="member: 616516"><p>time to fix up this guy:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0184.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0191.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0192.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>for what it's worth, I changed/added/fixed/whatever a total of 46 LEDs on this thing. I left two completely alone.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0194.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0195.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>since LED's are not as diffused as incandescent bulbs (well, unless you specifically buy them like that, which i didn't), i needed to put more LED's on than there were bulbs, and in different places evenly spaced around the cluster. Basically, this simply involved measuring where the bulbs should be, supergluing them in place, and then soldering up power and ground connections to everything from the old bulb locations. Also, I had to go through and find +/- connections on the bulbs since incandescent bulbs have no polarity and LED's do.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0203.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>this is the turn signal, high beams indicator, and ABS warning light.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0202.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>tachometer.</p><p></p><p>ALSO, note the small LED glued in place on the while dial. This is a white LED that allows the needles on the gauge to be white even tho the rest of the gauge is blue. It looks extremely **** when it's powered up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0201.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>temperature indicator and fuel gauge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martiandancer31, post: 7599676, member: 616516"] time to fix up this guy: [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0184.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0191.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0192.jpg[/IMG] for what it's worth, I changed/added/fixed/whatever a total of 46 LEDs on this thing. I left two completely alone. [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0194.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0195.jpg[/IMG] since LED's are not as diffused as incandescent bulbs (well, unless you specifically buy them like that, which i didn't), i needed to put more LED's on than there were bulbs, and in different places evenly spaced around the cluster. Basically, this simply involved measuring where the bulbs should be, supergluing them in place, and then soldering up power and ground connections to everything from the old bulb locations. Also, I had to go through and find +/- connections on the bulbs since incandescent bulbs have no polarity and LED's do. [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0203.jpg[/IMG] this is the turn signal, high beams indicator, and ABS warning light. [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0202.jpg[/IMG] tachometer. ALSO, note the small LED glued in place on the while dial. This is a white LED that allows the needles on the gauge to be white even tho the rest of the gauge is blue. It looks extremely **** when it's powered up [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae168/martiandancer316/buick%20install/IMG_0201.jpg[/IMG] temperature indicator and fuel gauge [/QUOTE]
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