Evening guys

 

Seen as my car is off the road till I replace the broken ignition barrel, and I've had to pull apart the dashboard, I've decided to replace the lights in the control pods with red LEDs. Everything seems to work as far as I can tell, but the lights are really really dim, and I'm starting to think I've made a mistake with either my LED's or my resistors. I'm hoping someone can help.

 

I was under the impression from reading the guides in the FAQ section that I needed 5mm LED's and some 470 Ohm resistors. The resistors and LED's came from Maplins. The resistors I'm using have the colours yellow violet red on them. The packaging says 1/4 W 5%. The LED's have no markings on them.

 

When I attach them without the resistor they light up really brightly, but get pretty warm so I guess they wouldn't be safe like that.

 

As you can no doubt tell electronics isn't my strong suite!

 

Any help would be great.

John

Mine is an N/A and i have UK clocks ( TT) the boost gauge obviously doesnt work for some reason :biggrin:

 

Easily fixed mate, you'll just need about 200miles of 6mm vac line. You can plug in to my balance bar...:lol:

Easily fixed mate, you'll just need about 200miles of 6mm vac line. You can plug in to my balance bar...:lol:

 

:lol::lol:

Sounds good Mark. I'll sort you some money on monday if that's alright.

 

In other news I've now finished both pods with red LEDs. I found the AC one easier to do for some reason. I thought it would be harder for some reason.

 

Next thing is the light under the auto shifter. That's never worked so I think the bulb might already be blown. I've got a bunch of 5 direction 501 LED bulbs on the way so that should be easy.

 

John