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Hi all,
Well, as my friends say, I have too much time on my hands. I wish.
Now that the exercise of how to brighten up the gauge face in the Healey is through, I took a side step to the panel switches.
If you want to see your radio buttons or even the 4 toggle switches at night, you either know where every thing is by brail or you have night vision goggles on.
I played around with a bunch of different lights. (Déjà -vu all over again). What I came up with was a package sold by Windplus. Purchased at AutoZone. WindPlus # LM02029-60/6 (See photo).
It contains the cigarette lighter, dimmer switch and two small led boxes. Each led box contains two blue micro leds.
What I did was to open each led box and cut it in half, length wise. Now you can use double sided tape (which comes in the kit) and attach it under the top of the dash lip. It will be completely hidden and will illuminate your toggle switches and radio.
And easy way wire it up is to run the wires under the dash top and down into the back of the dash face. Being the cigarette lighter plug has a fuse in it, simply solder one wire to the front push pin and another wire to one of the side pins. Splice into the red with white strip wire that goes to the gauges. Now it will come on when the panel switch is activated. Can be wired into a positive or negative car, depending on if the wire from the center pin of the cigarette lighter goes to hot or ground.
Once you dim to your likening, place the dimmer control anywhere you like. (once set, no need to use again. Hide under the dash).
Photos attached.
Happy Motoring!
Roger
Well, as my friends say, I have too much time on my hands. I wish.
Now that the exercise of how to brighten up the gauge face in the Healey is through, I took a side step to the panel switches.
If you want to see your radio buttons or even the 4 toggle switches at night, you either know where every thing is by brail or you have night vision goggles on.
I played around with a bunch of different lights. (Déjà -vu all over again). What I came up with was a package sold by Windplus. Purchased at AutoZone. WindPlus # LM02029-60/6 (See photo).
It contains the cigarette lighter, dimmer switch and two small led boxes. Each led box contains two blue micro leds.
What I did was to open each led box and cut it in half, length wise. Now you can use double sided tape (which comes in the kit) and attach it under the top of the dash lip. It will be completely hidden and will illuminate your toggle switches and radio.
And easy way wire it up is to run the wires under the dash top and down into the back of the dash face. Being the cigarette lighter plug has a fuse in it, simply solder one wire to the front push pin and another wire to one of the side pins. Splice into the red with white strip wire that goes to the gauges. Now it will come on when the panel switch is activated. Can be wired into a positive or negative car, depending on if the wire from the center pin of the cigarette lighter goes to hot or ground.
Once you dim to your likening, place the dimmer control anywhere you like. (once set, no need to use again. Hide under the dash).
Photos attached.
Happy Motoring!
Roger
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