I bought a set of series 4 clocks from Ianl :thumbup1: mainly just for the circuit sheet but it turns out the best purchase I have made in a while.

I have made one perfect one out of the two I had and I found these LED's and was totally surprised as I did not know that these even existed.

These pcb's sit underneath and shine light back onto the display.

The four bulbs shine through these holes or cut outs, a light diffuser is in each one which I have removed on the finished article but I may put back in at a later date, suck it and see.

Couldn't use the one from Ian as there was damage on the screen so I had to use mine, I was too afraid to seperate the plastic screen from the surround!!! All the blanks are there and the screw holes are also underneath, so all I did was dremel out to allow light through, might look a bit tatty but you cannot see these at all.

Only one of the four clear bulbs worked so I had to make some up, used red led's and put these into the four bulb holders, tested here on the bench

All back in and shining light through

Lights on pick up is shown here, the other two wires are to illuminate the GReddy I have which is what the black tape is for, to stop light bleed. I have put in a low fuel light also - hope that works!!!

Without the EL dials on - very red!! The GReddy illumination bulb does need moving back a touch as it is a little bright.

With the EL dials on - adds a bit of blue

One final shot - again very red with the EL dials off.

It does want cleaning as I have got some bits in there still.

Anybody else have these????????

Very neat bud , looks completely different to any others :clap:

My TT is a series 4 with the same clocks, at the moment it's just got the standard bulbs still but plans are to led the full thing shortly!!

All the zed models have the back lit part on the dash, most dont know it as the bulbs are normally dead or just crap. I never bothered putting leds to back light the front of the dash, as they can tend to glare off the dial facia and spoil the effect.

I think you should try blue leds to compliment the EL dials, that would look really nice.

Well done though for broadening the visual horizons :thumbup:

All the zed models have the back lit part on the dash, most dont know it as the bulbs are normally dead or just crap. I never bothered putting leds to back light the front of the dash, as they can tend to glare off the dial facia and spoil the effect.

I think you should try blue leds to compliment the EL dials, that would look really nice.

Well done though for broadening the visual horizons :thumbup:

 

Thank you Graham for your comments, as always gratefully received :winkiss:

The reason for the red - I had 4 red and only 3 in the blue :crying:

I have ordered more only 15 mins ago and will have a play with the blue in due course :cool3:

Ah i see, you should have said i got hundreds lol.