How -To: Change lights in stock radio
How -To: Change lights in stock radio
the radio
remove the 4 screws (TORX)
remove the volume, balance and treble knobs
flip up the front panel
remove the connectors
remove the screws
don't loose one of the inner parts
pay attention the polarisation!!!
if you wanna have red light you can stop here and just remove the blue caps and install red rubber caps therefor!!
and thats it - bulbs removed, LEDs in. you can see my soldering needle. don't try to make that with a big fat soldering gun
install a 300 Ohm resistor here
isolate it!
and then you can reassemble everything!
and there it is. open:
and closed
remove the 4 screws (TORX)
remove the volume, balance and treble knobs
flip up the front panel
remove the connectors
remove the screws
don't loose one of the inner parts
pay attention the polarisation!!!
if you wanna have red light you can stop here and just remove the blue caps and install red rubber caps therefor!!
and thats it - bulbs removed, LEDs in. you can see my soldering needle. don't try to make that with a big fat soldering gun
install a 300 Ohm resistor here
isolate it!
and then you can reassemble everything!
and there it is. open:
and closed
Last edited by Jenni on Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
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^^^wiggyx wrote:This is the "proper" way to do this mod, especially for blue. You don't need to do all this for red, orange, yellow, or green, but if you're doing purple, pink, or blue, then this is the way to go
Carsten, give us the details on the LEDs you used please!
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if you want orange its what the lights put out with out the caps on. (no other mods other than removing the caps)
idk how to get the display color changed to other colors.
idk how to get the display color changed to other colors.
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Alright I'm having some problems with this mod. Last night I did everything but tsb out of time to do the resistor. I knew i did it right cus all of the leds lit up nice and bright. So today I put on the resistor 330 ohm 1/4 watt 5% tolerance. And its on the correct wire. Wen I hooked it back up the middle lower led and the one to the right of it didn't work also some leds were really dim. So I wanted to double check the resistance wasnt to much so I disconnected the resistor then jumped a wore from the board to the wire. Two leds burned out and one more won't light up. But the rest are nice and bright. What did I do wrong?
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