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Old 7th November 2013, 07:39 AM
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I have been fitting the LEDS to my dash recently. All of them worked well except the brake warning/handbrake light. It wouldn't go out when the handbrake was down, but a bulb would. I figured out it must have been the resistance across the bulb was causing a further drop of power that the LED wasn't creating so I added the bulb in parallel with the LED and the LED then goes of as expected.




I spoke to Skov about putting a resistor in there to create the resistance needed in place of the bulb but it worked out I would need one or two of those ruddy great big rectangular ones like you put in the indicator circuit when using LED bulbs so I covered the bulb with a bolt cover so it doesn't illuminate behind the dash and ill just leave that in there!

While messing around with the dash it turns out that the epoxy I used to hold my 'glass' to the bezels wasn't sticking to either the glass OR the bezels and they all fell apart so I had to come up with another solution.

I decided to try and hot glue them. Started off by keying the edges of the perspex discs and dabbing hot glue around the edges.



I keyed the inside of the bezel a little too and laid them down in position on some grease proof paper on a flat surface.

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