Instrument Panel LED's?

[SummoneR]

Originally Posted by skuttduck

You can merely open up the GM door lamps and use them. But at $18 a piece that could get costly.

Well let me tell you which 505NM is not the right one..

Optek Standard LED OVLGC0C6B9

There is a chance maybe another 505NM is correct.
Also could we do a white with a color lens to achieve it?

LOL Yeah that could get pricey.

Originally Posted by HDRS

What you may not understand is I made the blue LED's match the stock lights by covering over them with a transparent yellow tape this makes them match the stock Ice Blue lights perfect. If you look at the pictures you will notice that all the lights are the same color blue. In person all the lights look Ice Blue.

This is just one way I found to be easy and verry easy on the pocket!!
I dont know much about the lights that you are using and if you can cover them with the tape I used? But if you go with changing the stock LED's you must like a challeng.
I like that in a person by the wayAlso how would you change the light pipe on the doors?If you think I can be any help let me know and good luck and enjoy the ride

I did not catch that. I had a similar idea, I may just try that. Thanks for the clarification :-) This could be great. I did notice your lights looked not as blue as my blue I figured it was just the image. Awesome,

I am a problem solver by nature and by profession (Architecture) I also love electronics and tinkering, I learned to solder many years ago, my father is an electronic technician, I learned from him. The tape idea should work perfectly for my cases.

I figured I would disect the light pipe LED to determine it's type of LED and replace it as well. I really like to 470 spectrum of blue but it would be a lot of work, and I'm not ready to blow my warranty out the window. LOL Thanks for the idea I will implement this and take photos!

[harrycamaro]

...so i know this is an old thread, but it seems to be the only one i can find on this. Did anyone replace the LED's behind the gauges to match another color of lighting? Or did yall just match them to ice blue? I've been looking on changing the ice blue lights. I dont really like the blue green color that much..

[meissen]

There's a DIY thread in the DIY forum. It's PLCC-2 LEDs and I would definitely recommend getting them from Oznium.com instead of the Digi-Key link above. Digi-Key link above has them priced at $4.50 each if I'm reading correctly whereas they were like $0.50 at Oznium.com...


Just the red LEDs:


Red and white:


Finished product






PS - I take no credit, I just followed the DIY thread. Props goes to that thread's author for posting it for us to use!

[SummoneR]

Originally Posted by mifbody

There's a DIY thread in the DIY forum. It's PLCC-2 LEDs and I would definitely recommend getting them from Oznium.com instead of the Digi-Key link above. Digi-Key link above has them priced at $4.50 each if I'm reading correctly whereas they were like $0.50 at Oznium.com...

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PS - I take no credit, I just followed the DIY thread. Props goes to that thread's author for posting it for us to use!

Oznium is great for the DIY.
The LEDs I saw behind the HVAC cluster seemed a lot smaller than the PLCC-2's But I could be wrong, but the DIY is awesome nice someone did one. I plan to do all my lighting Ice Blue, I'm not going to risk soldering such small LED's I don't have the equipment for that. Plus there are Ice Blue LED's everywhere, in the window switches HVAC cluster everywhere! LOL

Here is the DIY.

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...ghlight=PLCC-2

Here is a video on SMD soldering. There are tons more you can cearch for.

[meissen]

Originally Posted by SummoneR

Oznium is great for the DIY.
The LEDs I saw behind the HVAC cluster seemed a lot smaller than the PLCC-2's But I could be wrong, but the DIY is awesome nice someone did one. I plan to do all my lighting Ice Blue, I'm not going to risk soldering such small LED's I don't have the equipment for that. Plus there are Ice Blue LED's everywhere, in the window switches HVAC cluster everywhere! LOL

Here is the DIY.

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...ghlight=PLCC-2

Here is a video on SMD soldering. There are tons more you can cearch for.

Thanks for the video, that was pretty good. This project was the first time I had ever done circuit board soldering and it was VERY easy. I didn't even have a good soldering iron for it so I ended up going to Harbor Freight and buying a "Hobby Kit" where it had 3 soldering iron tips and 4 wood carving tips and then the soldering iron itself. A fine pick tip makes the job VERY easy. I wish I had the flux shown in the video, that looks like it made the job a LOT easier.

My method was to use the soldering iron to heat the solder on each side of the stock LED while gently prying to get the LED freed from the board. Once the LED was free from the board, I added a tiny drop of solder to each of the 4 points on the circuit board. Then I used tweezers to align the LED, soldered one side while pushing down with the tweezers, soldered the opposite side while pushing down so it'd lay flat, and then soldered the first side again.

It's not for the feint of heart but if you're comfortable soldering wires together, this is not hard to do at all.

[SummoneR]

Originally Posted by mifbody

Thanks for the video, that was pretty good. This project was the first time I had ever done circuit board soldering and it was VERY easy. I didn't even have a good soldering iron for it so I ended up going to Harbor Freight and buying a "Hobby Kit" where it had 3 soldering iron tips and 4 wood carving tips and then the soldering iron itself. A fine pick tip makes the job VERY easy. I wish I had the flux shown in the video, that looks like it made the job a LOT easier.

My method was to use the soldering iron to heat the solder on each side of the stock LED while gently prying to get the LED freed from the board. Once the LED was free from the board, I added a tiny drop of solder to each of the 4 points on the circuit board. Then I used tweezers to align the LED, soldered one side while pushing down with the tweezers, soldered the opposite side while pushing down so it'd lay flat, and then soldered the first side again.

It's not for the feint of heart but if you're comfortable soldering wires together, this is not hard to do at all.

Good to know thanks for the input.

[OKBumblebee]

Originally Posted by meissen

There's a DIY thread in the DIY forum. It's PLCC-2 LEDs and I would definitely recommend getting them from Oznium.com instead of the Digi-Key link above. Digi-Key link above has them priced at $4.50 each if I'm reading correctly whereas they were like $0.50 at Oznium.com...


Just the red LEDs:
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Red and white:
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Finished product


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PS - I take no credit, I just followed the DIY thread. Props goes to that thread's author for posting it for us to use!

THAT sir is totally badass. I am working on a similar thing like that at the moment. But i am trying to create white overlays for the gauges. The led mod is just what i was looking to do with the white gauges. Very Nice