Naw. What you get in the pump is a tiny ball of hardened solder, which usually will fall back out the hole in the bulb. If not, you can usually remove the rubber and empty it out. I've never seen one "fill" though. You'd have to de-solder a LOT of connections before you got any signifigant mass of solder in the bulb.
Post LED clusters and climate controls.
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The thing with this is that the LED is at full tilt all the time. Only way to dim the brightness is with a PWM controller that can shorten the on time per cycle. usually requires custom software OR the hardware be pulled from the newest cadiilacs, Lexus and Infinity as they have LED all over the place. ESPECIALLY the 08 Cadillac DTS.
Thought i would share some sites that you can buy any color any size any volt LED's and more
http://www.mouser.com/
http://www.digikey.com/
http://www.mouser.com/
http://www.digikey.com/
speaking of LED
who was that smart person to build the LED based Taillights? I have some questions!!
who was that smart person to build the LED based Taillights? I have some questions!!
guys did any of you order the LEDs from hong kong or anywhere in China? I just want to know how long it took because the wait is killing me lol.
oh crap I live in Canada too so probably going to be around three weeks. Well its been a week already so we'll see how this goes lol. Thanks for the quick replies guys.
Well i just soldered my new LEDs into my climate controller and none of the new LED lights work, but the controls all function properly, has any one experienced this before with the 1987 climate controller? The circuit boards have little symbols showing which way positive faces and i followed them correctly and im stumped as to why the LED lights wont work
that's exactly what I'm afraid of. But my temperature up arrow just stopped working yesterday so now I want to change my LED's even more. Hopefully my leds work for me though. I don't know much about resistance and power and stuff like that but maybe your leds got burned out because it was too much power. I remember I burned out an led before when I tried putting led's in my clear xbox controller lol and then I found out the led was too weak.
Turns out i had every LED in backwards and i read the diode symbol wrong, my buddy came down and told me and we turned them around and everything checks outs fine, im now looking for a blue display, Kingbright wants $4.95 + $9.00 for shipping + $5.00 for handling under $25 subtotal totally ridiculous, im searching ebay up and down for a blue display but cant find one
BudweiserJason8;950783 said:
I was going to say you probably had the anode/cathode reversed.
Check on digikey.com for the display.
loll I was honestly going to tell you to check that but I thought you would just call me retarded for suggesting that lol. I remember the longer leg is the positive or something and I'm just going to match it with the old LED's when I do mine.
btw has anyone tried putting the film for the temp display? Any pictures? I'm interested to see how it looks
edit: nvm I just saw Dan Gyoba's it looks amazing just a bit dim but as soon as that green filter is out it'll look crazy. Nice job on that Dan.
btw has anyone tried putting the film for the temp display? Any pictures? I'm interested to see how it looks
edit: nvm I just saw Dan Gyoba's it looks amazing just a bit dim but as soon as that green filter is out it'll look crazy. Nice job on that Dan.
can someone show me how I can open the pre-89 climate controls? I cant get the clear thing off most of the buttons
nevermind I got it after playing around with it. I broke a couple because some of the things are actually GLUED on.
guys is there a way to change the temp display on the pre 89 climate control by colouring the filters? I don't think there's a filter directly on top of the temp display.
There is a green filter over the stock display and the #s are green LED. Actually the whole case is a transluscent green.
is there no way to remove it and colour it blue? Am I going to have to put on a new temp display?
I have a better photo, less blurred. (I used a mini tripod on the center console.)gsmokez;953379 said:
Yes, you could use a bluie filter, and it would show blue. It wouldn't be AS dim as my red one, but would still be somewhat dimmer than it is now.
I removed the green filter at the CC face, and the green filter over the LEDs, but the LED numbers are still green, so it's pretty dim with the heavy filter that I have on it. Maybe a less dark filter would work better, but I've gone ahead and ordered some red 1/2" 7 segment LED displays. I might need to make an adapter, since the only ones that I could buy were single digit, not double digit like the ones in the climate control, but there's room enough to fit in something to make it work, I'm sure. I just hope that the display is common cathode, and not common annode, or I'll have to find a different use for them. It's worth a try, anyhow.
I've offered to do the climate controls for the local Supra Club guys just to see if I can make back the cost of the LEDs and stuff. I am not offering in "whatever colour you want" just the red/blue for the LEDs that I have, though they could have blue buttons with red indicators, all red or all blue if they want, depending on what I have left for LEDs when ask me. I'm just asking $15, which will cover my cost for the LEDs.
