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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/10-x-LEDs-in-Red ... dZViewItem
Thinking of buying these. Will they work in my cars electrical system? ie: in the trip computer. My car normally takes 12v DC globes, so will these 5v LED's work in place of the globe? (Sorry... I know jack s**t about electronics!) 
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| JOSE |
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NOPE, they will go pop if you put 12v across them, even at 5V they wont last long, you need current limiting resistors in series with them, should be about 430ohm your looking for 14v/430ohm = 30mA which is the rated current for most LED's like those
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| Rapier |
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they will work with the right info u would be better off buying the bright onesfrom jaycar, you know you can actually buy these things online from jaycar its not rocket science you know
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oh, i just read it properly that time, 3mm LED's wont nearly be bright enough, you need 5mm+ LEDs (and resistors to match the maximum rated current for them)
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get 5mm leds, and a 430 or 470 ohm resistor for each, u can frost the casing for better distribution of light, (use search for that) but yea u def need a resistor, a leds operating range is about 28mA, and remember you have a foward bias voltage drop of about .6V because the led is a diode. So if you want about 3V across the led u need a resistor to drop 10.2V with or roughly about (given ur car battery is 13.8V) and then you can work out wat power rating of the resistor you will need by getting the voltage across it, which is going to be about 10, square it, so 100, then divide it by the value of the resistor, so 100/430, mean its going to be dissipating about 4.3W, so if i was you i wud be asking jaycar for 430 ohm 5W resistors
 that way they have no chance of burning out (A), altho if u cant b assed doing all that, std 3c resistors will work 
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| TheRealPyro |
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You thinking of putting them in your cluster... if so bad idea toyed with that idea hit big problems too dim.. just f**k... just buy new cluster:):) more fun involved:)
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Rapier wrote: they will work with the right info u would be better off buying the bright onesfrom jaycar, you know you can actually buy these things online from jaycar its not rocket science you know
can't say i even knew that jaycar even had a website
i'll peep it out holmes
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http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.as ... &CATID=&ke
Ok, what about these? Does "viewing angle: 25" mean that it has a viewing angle of 25 degrees? Will this work with 12v? And will I have to solder up any resistors and s**t to these?
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| nesa09 |
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fordzatmyplace na dont buy them...
here, take a look at this
i've just recently done my whole dash in blue and red using leds. http://pertheseries.11.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=193 |
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nesa09 wrote: fordzatmyplace na dont buy them...
here, take a look at this i've just recently done my whole dash in blue and red using leds. http://pertheseries.11.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=193 what ones should I buy? which ones did you use!?
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| nesa09 |
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buy Narva Leds part number 47902
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here : http://www.narva.com.au/Globes_5.html
Ring whever you can ... Repco... i dont know if they are down in Tasmania but ask for Narva dash panel globes part number 47902 usually 10 for $25 |
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nesa09 wrote: here : http://www.narva.com.au/Globes_5.html
Ring whever you can ... Repco... i dont know if they are down in Tasmania but ask for Narva dash panel globes part number 47902 usually 10 for $25 Aha! thanks! How bright are they? how many did you have to use to get the same results that you did in your car?
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| Laximah |
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they are just a straight swap led globe, only need the six, for the cluster. and one for the trip computer!
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Laximah wrote: they are just a straight swap led globe, only need the six, for the cluster. and one for the trip computer!
do you have to flatten the tops off or any thing?!
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