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 Post subject: Broken lights :(
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:34 pm 
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Well tonight i managed to smash my head light switch on my AUII by being a bit to aggressive while trying to take it out (bloody cheap plastic piece of crap).
Anyway, the reason i was taking it out was because when i put blue leds in my dash yesterday the red lights in the arrow things which point to fuel speed tacho ect all stopped working.
Any Ideas what ive managed to f**k up this time?

 

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 Post subject: Re: Broken lights :(
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:24 pm 
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Probably is not your head light switch dude. Sounds like your LED lights you put in was probably put in back the front and it blew one of your instrument fuses. LED lights are polarity sensitive. You can just shove them in anyway like you can with a normal globe.

 

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 Post subject: Re: Broken lights :(
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:32 pm 
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93EB wrote:
Probably is not your head light switch dude. Sounds like your LED lights you put in was probably put in back the front and it blew one of your instrument fuses. LED lights are polarity sensitive. You can just shove them in anyway like you can with a normal globe.


I didn't change the lights in the red needle things. I just changed the bulbs in the dials, and they work and show up blue, its just the needles don't work anymore. Any ideas???

 

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 Post subject: Re: Broken lights :(
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:46 pm 
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Ok so if they are all working the LED s are in correctly. ?? Sorry dude ill have a think about it and ill get back to you if i come up with something worth looking into.

 

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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:30 pm 
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The needles are lit up by the same globes arent they? - so your new LED's arent providing any Red light to light up!
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:45 pm 
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Nigel wrote:
The needles are lit up by the same globes arent they? - so your new LED's arent providing any Red light to light up!


Oh...
That would make sense. How do people get around this?
Where can i get blue needles?

 

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