[AcCoRd boI]

they had a sticky of this thread at AV6...could someone bring it over??

im starting out with staining the bulbs blue...but what about the green and the orange that lights up when u select the climate control...ie...the recirculation button or the a/c button

how do we change those to blue or another color?

 

[carb0]

if you get a new headunit installed at your local audio shop, ask them if you can hop in there real quick and change em out, if you dont know the size of em look and run to an autoparts store real quik or walmart and grab those bulbs and stain/spraypaint em real quick and run back up there and put em in, its just an idea its what i did

 

[cryogen97]

oh man, you want a lot of info on changing the LEDs on the climate control to blue.....go on over to honda society . com (without the spaces) and search for LED in the 5th gen forum. There is one thread that starts with "**to those that wanted pics of my A/C lights" or something like that that's 4-5 pages on this. I helped out a couple people on that thread with just that project.

 

[AcCoRd boI]

i painted the clock light...now its a dark green...does that mean i need another coat of paint to make it blue?

 

[cryogen97]

sounds like you need another coat

 

[illusion]

you'll need to take the filter out that's in there. there's a pale blue filter that makes the light do really wierd things.

 

[AcCoRd boI]

filter? i dun see a filter?

tell me how illusion

 

[illusion]

I'll have to wait till the weekend, hard to dig into the car with a 4 year old ripping at you. You just have to take the whole clock assembly apart, if I remember right, one part pops off, then there's a few screws, and then you should see the little piece of plastic that's between the bulb socket and the light difuser. that's the filter..

 

[nizmugen]

yea like cryogen said, there's a big thread about it at h----s. i'm workin on that mod right now but my local radio shack is a lil short on the LEDs

 

[illusion]

do you guys have fry's down there? the big problem with most LEDs is that their beam is too narrow. I've tried radio shack ones, I've tried a few different kinds at fry's, but the only ones that have worked were the one's from ledtronics.net 120° veiwing angle is almost as close as a regular bulb where most off the shelf LED's are only 20-30°.

 

[nizmugen]

i have one radio shack led in right now and i don't see anything wrong with the viewing angle....

but yea we have a fry's down here...it was an incredible universe...

i'll have to check them out one of these days

 

[illusion]

most of the things the regular LED's will do ok, but like the clock uses indirect lighting, it takes the light from the side of the bulb and puts it through a diffuser. since LED's shine pretty much straight, with only a little light bleeding out of the side, the clock will be very very dim...

 

[nizmugen]

oh crap you guys are talkin about the clock. i thought the topic switched to the climate controls...sorry

 

[AcCoRd boI]

im working on takin the clock apart

a new fry's just opened down here in socali

any more tips would be appreciated

 

[cryogen97]

If you just throw an LED in the clock it'll burn out in approx 0.6 seconds. You either want to get a colored bulb or find out the voltage limits of the LED you want and put the appropriate resistor in line.

 

[AcCoRd boI]

but the climate control led's dunt require resistors since the voltage is alreadi stepped down

i got that from cryogen...too bad i really dunno that much

 

[AcCoRd boI]

ok...i took out the diffuser...its like a blue thing with black surrounding it rite?

i took it out...but now the stained bulb lights up with the stock color again...so i gotta coat it more...but it also got a LOT brighter...comparing from when it was stained...

is that how its supposed to be?

 

[illusion]

hmmm mine didn't have a black surround, it was just a little piece of thin light blue plastic. but if it changed the color then you're on the right track. the bad thing is to make it blue, you'll have to reaaaaaaallly coat the bulb and it will make it pretyt dim. it won't ever get the same blue as an LED will though. so don't hope for it. the best it will get is a pale blueish color. almost like the teal indiglo but nowhere near as bright.

 

[AcCoRd boI]

this question is for cryogen

you said the clock would need a resistor for an led...what should be the rating of the resistor?

you said anything on the climate control board was already stepped down...does that mean BOTH the leds AND the bulbs are stepped down? so i can put LED's into the place of the bulbs without a resistor?

THANX

 

[cryogen97]

The LEDs on the board can be replaced. I doubt the illumination bulbs are, so they probably need a resistor. As for the resistor value, what voltage LEDs are you using?