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DIC COLOR CHANGE!!! First atempt, learn from my mistakes



Kejross said:
no idea on the diming thing i never mess with my dimmer, and if i had it to do over i wouldn't have put anything blue behind the screen, should be fine with the white alone cause it gets the color from the leds themselves. ill mess with my dimmer next time i drive it and let you know...
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sounds like the polarity on your LEDs is backwards... haha only thing i can think of.
 
hey, not sure if anyone said this yet, but ... to make soldering easier, instead of cutting every pin to the lcd, just put the tip of the solder iron either on the ends where it sticks our from the board to melt the solder, or if you are careful u can put it right onto the solder. when the solder melts you can just pull the pins right through the board. when you are done u can just stick the pins back through the board and then re solder. just be careful not to solder two spots together
 


I thought about that but since they are all mounted to the glass you would have to have them all heated up at the same time which is basically impossible, or bend them out one at a time which doesn't sound fun either. You could get some braided desoldering wire and try that but I've never had good luck with that stuff either so cutting was IMO the best. Also its pretty easy to solder them back together too...
 
I didn't change the color. But I did put the 4-pin red LEDs. AWESOME! It now matches the color of the dash lights. Is this worth your time? Definitely! A million thank to Kerjoss for the hi-res pics and great how-to!
 
Also, it you want to desolder the LCD without cutting the pins, just buy a solder sucker iron. Sure you have to buy another iron, but if you're that worried about it's worth the cost.
 
bankai said:
I didn't change the color. But I did put the 4-pin red LEDs. AWESOME! It now matches the color of the dash lights. Is this worth your time? Definitely! A million thank to Kerjoss for the hi-res pics and great how-to!
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Glad it helped ya!!! Thanks fella!
 
bankai said:
I didn't change the color. But I did put the 4-pin red LEDs. AWESOME! It now matches the color of the dash lights. Is this worth your time? Definitely! A million thank to Kerjoss for the hi-res pics and great how-to!
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Post some pics.

ps... This was my FIRST attempt at soldering lol,, bad time to try it, but I eventually got it all back together.. worth the effort.
 


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heres my results. a bit brighter than i would like it to be haha, ill have to fix that later
 
next i want to make all the buttons green to match but thats gonna be a p i t a. haha i already screwed up the "low trac" and "Trac off" letters by spilling carb cleaner on them. im gonna have to fix that somehow
 
sonyz92 said:
next i want to make all the buttons green to match but thats gonna be a p i t a. haha i already screwed up the "low trac" and "Trac off" letters by spilling carb cleaner on them. im gonna have to fix that somehow
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I thought about doing that too but couldn't tell where the color was on the layers of the button and didn't wanna jack it up. That's why I just put the red LED's in so it was a real deep true red at least and not that cheesy orange color that they have stock. I'm planning on buying those twist in style LED's for my dash cluster and maybe doing my buttons and stuff eventually after I get my motor built...
 


Poil336 said:
it can be done. any chance you spell out what led's and resistors to use for a lazy guy like me? lol
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You can just order those twist in kind if you dont wanna mess with the led's and soldering... But theres a calc and some part numbers further back in the post.
 
Other than the DIC, where else are the PC74's used? Trying to figure out how many to order. My 97 DIC needs 6, directional and hi-beam indicators 3. Am I missing any?
 
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