Dashboard Gauge Lights...

[denalianyone]

Just recently two of my white LEDs in the dash started flickering. When the regular bulbs were in they never flickered b4. Is anyone else experiencing this after swapping in 194 LEDs?

 

[NathanJax]

Howdy ya'll,

I just bought a 2002 tahoe and jut joined your forum. Anyways, for the leds i went onto superbrightleds.com and am looking at all their stuff. The have a couple of different wled s they have a 1 and a 4. Obviously the 4 is going to be brigter but is it too bright. The other thing i was noticing is that the 1 has a wider angle, would this give the cluster a more uniform lighting?

Personally, I would go with the 194 WLED-x-x LED bulbs with the 120 degree angle.


Those are what I did in my old 2001 Tahoe and it was very uniform, not too bright, and no dim spots.

Just recently two of my white LEDs in the dash started flickering. When the regular bulbs were in they never flickered b4. Is anyone else experiencing this after swapping in 194 LEDs?

That means the LEDs are going bad. Need new ones.

 

[Chev4Ev]

NathanJax did those just plug right in or did you need anything else besides the bulbs?

 

[NathanJax]

plug right in

 

[ROBERTOcritser]

can you get get Red LEDs to put in there? (to match my red 'hoe but wouldnt match my deck's lights... but who cares) RED Lights?

 

[Effeckt]

What I have been trying to find is how many LEDs the cluster would take. I am considering just buying a whole bunch of them to do this, but if I could find a number count that would be helpful. I also am going to go red (big shocker there), fortunately my HU also has red lighting so it will match. I am going to do the A/C controls, etc as well. I assume that they are also plug in play for the 01's like the dash unit is?

 

[NathanJax]

can you get get Red LEDs to put in there? (to match my red 'hoe but wouldnt match my deck's lights... but who cares) RED Lights?

yes, an color they make will work

What I have been trying to find is how many LEDs the cluster would take. I am considering just buying a whole bunch of them to do this, but if I could find a number count that would be helpful. I also am going to go red (big shocker there), fortunately my HU also has red lighting so it will match. I am going to do the A/C controls, etc as well. I assume that they are also plug in play for the 01's like the dash unit is?

6 bulbs for the cluster for sure. And I'm not sure about the a/c, but I think they are soldered. only before 99's were twistlock a/c's and such... i think...

 

[OmarR]

A/C unit has 2.

Correction:

2 per side, so 4 total. This is for the manual control. Don't know about the auto.

 

[ecordell]

Anybody have any pictures of their dash (04+) after they've soldered LEDs in with resistors?

I'm getting antsy and I think i'm gonna give it a try lol, hope I don't ruin the guage board lol

 

[vatahoelt]

Anybody have any pictures of their dash (04+) after they've soldered LEDs in with resistors?

I'm getting antsy and I think i'm gonna give it a try lol, hope I don't ruin the guage board lol

if my leds and resistors ever get here from japan, i'll let you know.