DIY: Blue LED gauge and dash lights

[gearbox]

The ONLY gauges that will be black and white are on the 2001 SEDAN. You can look on ebay, and yes if you get that it will fit in your 02 lx. Just make sure you get manual and not auto (it has the P R N D letters on it). And the lighting is different. Sedans have green/yellow backlight, coupes have red/amber. But it won't matter if you're getting it for lighting. You can even swap just the gauge face like I did. My cluster is 02 but I'm using 01 faces.

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[AlienX]

like gear said...

bout the 5spd thing...you CAN probebly use a 5spd console, but i might give u a SRS.

[ncirom2003]

i wasnt going to swap the whole console just the gauges so ill have to search cus i doubt honda sells it spereate

so where you did all those led's on the climate control and on the gauges is it in parallel or series. i figure u just missed my earlier question but incase someone here has done it and dont know what i mean i drew a picture of a circuit to explain

[gearbox]

I wired all mine in series and tapped the wires off the illumination wire coming to the gauge cluster. It's a big mess, and that wire is tiny, but it should be okay since leds don't use much power.

[AlienX]

all the LEDs i have setup are in parallel. Its a lot harder doing it in series, even though it will take less resistors to construct but will clutter everything. Not only that but you have redundancy if you use parallel.

LOL and nice schematic :P looks too funny
LEDS have a circle around them and little arrows to indicate that its an LE Diode, not just a diode.

[ncirom2003]

i know that the led symbol is diff but i am not good with ms paint so oh well... i thought led's were a diode with three diagonal arrows pointing off the arrow... w/e
i would think parallel is better because the bulbs will shine alot brighter and series seems easier to me. can someone tell me if they remember what the three color bands are on the resistor there should be the three next to each other on the left then on the far right silver or something. those four colors in order would help. rep points for everyone lol. i dont feel like bustin out my electric book

[AlienX]

the far right is the tolerance level, you will only find LEDs with gold now a days because they are soo easy to make.

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[AlienX]

sorry, white didnt come out.. but its 9 :P

[AlienX]

http://xtronics.com/kits/rcode.htm

[AlienX]

for the type of resistance you need varies on the LEDs ampage rating. LEDs are NOT voltage driven, no matter what someone tells you...

[ncirom2003]

thanks... new the tolerance thingy ... but for the resistors u used i meant waht is tolerance and the other three bands... i believe i read 400 ohms

[ncirom2003]

so that would be yello white brown then silver tolerance is 5% i believe

[AlienX]

you dont want to use silvers anymore.. you can't even get silver anymore from what I know..
yellow = 4
white = 9
brown = multiplier = 1 so thats 1 "0" at the end..
= 490 Ohms

and with silver, it can vary 5% up or Down..

[AlienX]

I dont remeber the values I used, you would have to look though the thread where gearbox first did the LED thing, i posted it somewhere in there.. I remeber I was somewhere in the 360 or 340 range, but it all depends on your LEDs and its always better to add more resistance then not enough, it wont change the intesity.

[ncirom2003]

cool thanks... im probably gonna run to radioshack or somethin tomorow. so i hope my mind will be straight when i go cus i know this stuff but maybe im tired right now. anyways thanks ill go for 380-400 ohms resistors and run each bulb socket in parallel with the two leds per socket in series using the blue led's you described. this sounds alot easier than screwing with it like in the ledautomotive.com diy