lexus4jess

thats some good welding.

mikeloc24

Looks cool Jared, I especially like the ignition and the window switches. If you do the climate control over like Jose did using the cold cathode you'll get the uniformity you want. I give it a

LexusBiz

Hey Jared,

You gotta tell me how you got the LED's into the driver master switch assembly. I got the LED into the passenger window switch. But as hard as I tried I could not disassemble the master switch buttons. I could not get the toggle switch for the window buttons off the base to access the light bulb.

Can you show me or tell me how you got the switch off the assembly to access the bulb on the master switch?

Also, what did you use for the ignition switch ligthing. Is that a optic light cable wrapped around the assembly. I just stuck a blue LED into the existing light bulb socket. It works nice, but the light is unevenly dispersed.

I also started off with the three LED's in the climate control unit. No matter what I tried (light dispensing panels, light absorbing filters, etc...) I could not get rid of the 3 light spots on the display. I think it was CleanSC that posted the pics of using cold cathode tubes. I got my hands on a set of 6" blue cold cathodes and fabricated it into the A/C panel. Doing some final work on the unit, should have it finished soon. The lighting result, so far, if perfect nice intense blue, with even light pattern. I'll post some pics.

Thanks
LexusBiz

P.S. I never thought to change out the lights on the Trip/ODO buttons. Thanks for giving me idea/project for this weekend.

Tryk

Thanks!
Well now my radio unit is red to match the climate control. If you want yours to match your climate control you could use a couple 5mm hyper white led's. Or do like I did and use two 3mm red led's in each side of the unit. The radio has a very nice difuser(unlike the climate control) and led's work great!. My car is a 1992.
Here are a couple pics of how the led's are mounted in my Pioneer unit. I also had to grind into the difuser a little for the led's to fit, but it worked out awesome. I am very happy with it.

Please read: The reason I did not originally post pictures of the inside of the radio unit is that I don't want people trying to do this themselves unless they are experienced with small electronics. The radio unit is fairly complicated and it wouldn't be hard to mess something up. Please if you are not comfortable doing this send your unit to OLT, it is definitly worth the money.

Tryk

LED's, light emitting diodes. They are far different from light blubs and much, MUCH more rad

Thank you master :bowdown:

Oh just wait till you see what I am going to try!

Thanks!

Well not that the led's are too bright, it is just very hard to get an even light in the climate control unit, but i have a plan, and it does include led's.

Thank you Take some pics of that dash, I would love to see it!

Tryk

Thanks! Good luck with the project!

I am not worthy of being mentioned with the great OLT. hehe. Just kidding thanks for the comment

Thanks! It is one of my favorite mods so far

soldering, thanks :P And I can also weld like a mad-man

Thanks! I have a different plan for the climate control, but I don't want to release my secret just yet. It involves led's though.

Tryk

First off, it is obvious that Toyota didn't want the window switches to be taken apart. It was not a fun time getting into it. The main driver's switch is the hardest to get off. I wish I would have taken pictures of the switch when it was apart now. But to get that switch off I had to dremel the sides of the actual switch off(that are not visible because of the covers once it is installed). Hopefully this makes sense. Then I was able to pry it off similar to the other smaller switch beside it.
It was hard to do, I am glad I didn't break anything in the process. There are already resistors installed that work great with the blue led's I used so that was a nice bonus

For the ignition ring that is just extra wiring that you are seeing that goes to the second LED. I dremeled a spot for a second LED to be installed. I just hot glued it in place and wired it all up. This gave me the more even lighting that I was looking for.

Good luck with your climate unit! I still plan to use LED's...but something totally different.

jaysmooth

awesome job

Xanadu350

Nice job, like the blue lights on door & key switch. Was it hard getting the key light to blue? I like it.

Tryk

Oooooooooooh some of the LED's I ordered got here today. Soon I will start on my next project

Fred Smith

You do realise that there are square wide viewing angle LEDs available? They don't emit in that sharp cone like your round ones do... they have only a slight hot spot in the centre... with a piece of paper about an inch in front of them, the pattern looks better (wider spread) than with an incandescent bulb.

Bryan858

iTrader: (1)

That looks awesome buddy... How long did it take for you to do the Climate control? mine has a bad display already as well as a burnt bulb so I'll probably do this if i can find a good condition CC for a good price... Hmm, out of curiosity why did you need the resistors for each individual LED? Also wondering where you bought the LED's? Would any LED work fine? Sorry to ask so many questions but I just find it very intrigueing.. Once again great job and can't wait to see how your car turns out once its completed...
Bryan

lexusondubs

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wow man it looks good so far.. are you going to use all of those led's on your car ??

southernsc

ok so now i have started my project as well. but how did you get to the lights for the window controls? i popped the controls out, unscrewed everything, but it feels like im going to break apart the circut board if i try to pull the plastic off. how did you get to them? also how did you get to the ignition ring? so far i have done the foot wells, trunk, and glove compartment. im going to order more cause i didnt get very many at all.

Tryk

Did you take the switches off of the window control? The hard part was taking the switches off, after that it was easy to get apart.

For the ignition ring, I pulled at the dash piece around the ignition until it popped out. I could pull it out enough to get to the one screw holding it in from underneath. Then it was a matter of soldering the wires back up once I had the led's installed.

Good luck with your LED mods!