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Just thought I would post a couple of pics of a little project I have just finished. I know alot of people have done the LED mod to the climate control with great results and a tried the same thing, but even still it seemed to dull for my liking. So from there I decided to have a little play and put 1 LED per button, needless to say this failed, the LEDs i was using (5mm 4000mcd waterclear white) looked horrid, only being a 30deg or so spreed from the LED only lite up around half of each button, and white for the up/down (red/blue) buttons wasn't working. After a bit more a play a came up with this -

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A mess of resistors and wires!

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All up I ended up using 15 LEDs. 13x 3mm 5000mcd waterclear White - 1x 3mm 1700mcd waterclear Red - 1x 3mm ????mcd waterclear Blue (blue led was taken from a PC tower so not sure of specs) and a bunch of resistors.

The hardest part of doing this was getting the placement right for each LED. Looks all over the place but they are all where they needed to be :P

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And to save light coming out from strange gaps or openings I masked the leads and sprayed the inside matte black.

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And now here is how it looks sitting on my bench being tested -

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Looks way to bright in this photo but when looking at it in the real world all the icons are more than visible. Thinking I may need a pot somewhere as a dash light dimmer once all lights are done.

Anyways hope y'all like. I will post some pics of it in-car later today.

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