Sib
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Where are you guys wiring the led strips in behind the dash. I have yet to open mine up but will be something I will be doing soon. Any pics of where you wired them up to?
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Just use any of the bulb contacts ON the cluster board for the backlighting, and solder the wires to them. Easy peasy and self contained.
Figured, was just curious to which one you guys were using. I recently did that when I put an LED strip in my driver's door module instead of 5mm LEDsBlckshdw said:
BlazingTrails
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I still have yet to pull my cluster back out and strip the blue off of the face. I have not felt like dealing with pulling the dash out. 
I am waiting to put my black bezel in until I get the gauge face & needles I want, and put the strips in my cluster. That's how much I HATE pulling the dash bezel off, it's a PITA and on top of that I gotta move all my wiring for LEDs and my 2 gauges around, I wanna do all that on the same day lolBlazingTrails said:I still have yet to pull my cluster back out and strip the blue off of the face. I have not felt like dealing with pulling the dash out.
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Mounce
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...I mentioned that to you while you had it apart in the processes of putting leds in and you said yours didn't have blue on it and lights up white.BlazingTrails said:I still have yet to pull my cluster back out and strip the blue off of the face. I have not felt like dealing with pulling the dash out.
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DFWWIZ
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SRCK is in our tails. This means instead of 2 positives opposed and 2 negatives opposed an SRCK bulb has both positives on one side together opposite of both negatives. ITs bascially a 90* rotation of position of contacts if you look at it like a face of a clock.
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That's rather random.
On a different note...one of my switchbacks has been flickering for a while, took it out and was gonna take it apart but it seems to be glued to the base so I retouched the solder joints on the boards that I could see from the outside and...it still flickers.
On a different note...one of my switchbacks has been flickering for a while, took it out and was gonna take it apart but it seems to be glued to the base so I retouched the solder joints on the boards that I could see from the outside and...it still flickers.
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The whole thing flickers, not just one LED, is that still the same? And oh, it's only the white circuit that does it. Orange/amber appears to be fine.BlazingTrails said:
5630 chips btw.
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It may be the Resistor going out then. you should be able to opwn it somehow and replace it. I had to do that on a couple of mine already.
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I'm gonna take the dive into installing LEDs into my cluster and I was hoping I could get some feedback about this LED strip before I order it.
Here's the link to the eBay listing:
5M 5630 LED Strip Cool White Waterproof IP65 Light 2 times Brighter than 5050
I choose this one because it states cool white (5500K to 6000K). Some of the others say 6000K to 7000K which I'm guessing would have a hint of blue, right? My goal is just to have white.
Thoughts on this item?
Here's the link to the eBay listing:
5M 5630 LED Strip Cool White Waterproof IP65 Light 2 times Brighter than 5050
I choose this one because it states cool white (5500K to 6000K). Some of the others say 6000K to 7000K which I'm guessing would have a hint of blue, right? My goal is just to have white.
Thoughts on this item?
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Id go for it cap 30 inches will line the entire cluster perfectly
CaptainKD
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Here's what I can scoop up locally.....Capote said:
Alpena Flex LED 36", White
The description doesn't even reference the light color or size of the LED. It's also more than double the price.
That's the brand of all the LED strips on my rig. They are a bit pricey, but they make excellent LED strips
Mounce
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Ebay strip ftw. I refuse to overpay for a product.
You'll have to do the rest of your interior after that cap'n...you'll have your brightness turned down so those don't blind you then you won't be able to see the radio and such lol
You'll have to do the rest of your interior after that cap'n...you'll have your brightness turned down so those don't blind you then you won't be able to see the radio and such lol
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I'm not personally sure, but they'll be brighter than the 5050's for sure.
Matt, you got 5050's or 5630's? It looked bright as fck.
Matt, you got 5050's or 5630's? It looked bright as fck.
Late to the party but for the led strips in the cluster I couldn't trust the 3m tape because bass. I used that q bond stuff to lock it in place. Just a dab every 2-3 inches.
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Yeah I just took it for a spin to check needle positions n once u got out of town lighting, I had to back the dimmer down a Lil.. LolCapote said:
Sib
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That is bright. Since cap likes to drive with his sunglasses on at night he won't have to dim it tho. 
This may sound stupid, but I am thinking of using one green LED strip and one blue one...Midnyteryder196 said:
The strips I use aren't bright as yours so I probably don't have to dim
[emoji41]Sib said:That is bright. Since cap likes to drive with his sunglasses on at night he won't have to dim it tho.
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