Tryk's new LED work(climate and radio)
05-07-05, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by LexusPunk
i thought the radio buttons couldnt be changed? Do a writeup on the radio buttons would ya? 
Just too much work.
05-07-05, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by O. L. T.
Looks good bro 
Can you post a pic without so much contrast blown out? Those halo's around everything mean the pic makes it look WAY too bright. I made that mistake when i first started building units.
I was trying to get a look at it by reducing the contrast, but the halo is in the picture itself. I'm trying to see the work
Can you post a pic without so much contrast blown out? Those halo's around everything mean the pic makes it look WAY too bright. I made that mistake when i first started building units. I was trying to get a look at it by reducing the contrast, but the halo is in the picture itself. I'm trying to see the work
05-07-05, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by O. L. T.
They can, you just have to use SMD's. = P.I.T.A.
Just too much work.
Just too much work.
I can post more later...I am off for a bbq at my buddies house!
05-07-05, 05:49 PM
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Actually can you figure out how "I" did it 
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...&postcount=784
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...&postcount=780
03-06-04 would put me past my one year anniversary when i decided i'd NEVER do this again. LOL I've been the 3mm route SMD's work much better.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...&postcount=784
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03-06-04 would put me past my one year anniversary when i decided i'd NEVER do this again. LOL
I've been the 3mm route SMD's work much better.
05-07-05, 07:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Tryk Racing
Rob yes I used LED's! Finally figured out a way to get the lighting almost perfectly even.
It would be nice if you give us all the secret to your even lighting of both the Climate LCD and the Radio LCD.
I am about to use Cold Cathodes on both but would prefer to do them with LED's especially if that is what you used.
Cause yours look excellent.
Let us in on your secret to success.
Rob
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05-08-05, 07:03 AM
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Even Lighting of LCD's
Originally Posted by mrcrx28
I agree with Rob. Sharing is caring, ahhahah..... How did you make it light up so bright? Anything else besides the LED was used? Thanks
How did you get the light so even across the LCD with no hot spots showing. SMD's ?
Did you use some kind of diffusion between the light source and the back of the LCD ?If so what did you use ?
Rob
05-09-05, 11:33 AM
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This is how I did my climate control unit. Please people.... just send it into Brian if you are not experienced working with small electronics.
Ok the display was fairly easy to get done. I used two 3mm led's in each of the 3 light locations. I set it up so that all the light seen on the display is all reflected off the back plastic buckets. If you have taken the climate unit apart you will know what I mean by looking at this picture of how the led's are set up.
Of coarse the led's will not fit through the stock bulb holes like that...so instead of grinding plastic off of the unit I actually dropped the led's through with the plastic bucket in place and soldered them in...then put the lcd back in position.
The only other thing I did was remove the stock light difuser. If you look at it....it is designed to lessen the light directly above where the stock bulbs are, but since we are now shining the light to the sides, you want as much light to get to the middles of the 3 buckets as possible.
As for the button lighting, its pretty straight forward if you know what you are doing. I am going to redo mine with more resistance, or frosted led's with less light output as my buttons are a tad too bright right now. Here is a pic of the led's for the buttons...
Ok the display was fairly easy to get done. I used two 3mm led's in each of the 3 light locations. I set it up so that all the light seen on the display is all reflected off the back plastic buckets. If you have taken the climate unit apart you will know what I mean by looking at this picture of how the led's are set up.
Of coarse the led's will not fit through the stock bulb holes like that...so instead of grinding plastic off of the unit I actually dropped the led's through with the plastic bucket in place and soldered them in...then put the lcd back in position.
The only other thing I did was remove the stock light difuser. If you look at it....it is designed to lessen the light directly above where the stock bulbs are, but since we are now shining the light to the sides, you want as much light to get to the middles of the 3 buckets as possible.
As for the button lighting, its pretty straight forward if you know what you are doing. I am going to redo mine with more resistance, or frosted led's with less light output as my buttons are a tad too bright right now. Here is a pic of the led's for the buttons...
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