mikehiow
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Registered: 12th May 05
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sure many of you have already figured this out, but for those of you who havent, if you want a quick and easy solution to get different coloured lighting for your dash, you can use sidelight bulbs, just did mine, although its a bit dull it looks great, only paid 99p for mine, but if you pay a few more quid and get decent ones should look even better 
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Will_Sport
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Registered: 28th Jun 04
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ur talking about models with rev counters as the lights behind clocks in models with rev counters won't take sidelight bulbs... hence we all love our LEDs... which won't work very well in none rev counter models due to them only having 2 bulbs
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mikehiow
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aah, mine has no rev counter, and yeah, takes sidelight bulbs.
I really wanted to use LED's without the use of resistors, couldnt find any 12v UV led's 
(i had the idea that the white on the clock should react with the UV light and look really cool, already have UV lighting in my footwells)
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
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No LED's are 12v, hence why they are fitted with resistors. I can sort you out with some if needed fitted to sidelight bulb fittings, u2u me if interested.
My I ask why you dont like resistors? Most come prefitted with them.
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Will_Sport
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gessing he wanted no resistors as a 3.3v LEDs wouldn't be bright enough to light his clocks, maybe getting the jumbo 10mm jobbies may work? (or clocks with rev counters are cheap to pick up)
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mikehiow
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well, its not a 12v LED, i know this, but it runs off 12v, guessing it has some kind of resistor built in, but they dont need anything extra to run off the car, I have some red ones
the reason I didn't want to use resistors is purely because im lazy 
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