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    Hey I have seen plenty of cars around with blue interior lights and blue number plate lights. I want to know how its done because i cant find any blue globes to replace the originals. Do i have to rig up some L.E.D.s, if so how. Hope u guys can help. cheers.

    P.S. its in a VT if that changes anything.

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    You will get defected for the number plate lights. Just get some pure white globes that truckies use for those.

    I bought a neon globe for my interior light from Autobahn.
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    yer i might go an interior light from der i doubt theyll have globes for my plates cos there kinda illegal.

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    F Autobarn, have a look on ebay.
    You can get the blue LED's off there for @ $5.
    If you go to Autobarn you'll pay $15 for the ****ty one's you can get off ebay for $2 !!!

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    i jus bought l.e.d.s and sum resistors from jaycar mate, the globes u buy from autoshops are weak as ****, the l.e.d.s u can get as bright as u want, n cheap as

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    I'd go for Ebay for LED's, the jaycar globes I have used have not been any better than those on Ebay you can get for 1/3 the price.

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    Not sure if you've seen them but you can get LED lights from jaycar which are arranged in a strip and are the same size as standard festoon globes.

    I'm going to put them in my door lights and footwell lights and see how they come out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tommo82 View Post
    Not sure if you've seen them but you can get LED lights from jaycar which are arranged in a strip and are the same size as standard festoon globes.

    I'm going to put them in my door lights and footwell lights and see how they come out.
    buy them from ebay also u'll pay half the price on them 2
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    i replaced my interior lights with color changing LED's

    Now all of my interior lights (its a calais so 9 of them) change color at the same time

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    Quote Originally Posted by STEALTHY View Post
    You will get defected for the number plate lights. Just get some pure white globes that truckies use for those.

    I bought a neon globe for my interior light from Autobahn.
    ***sigh*** There are no rules stating what colour (except blue, see below) the number plate lights have to be.. As long as it is lit to a point it is easily read.. I ran red in my old statesman for years without a drama, went through countless road side checks and never even got asked about them and it was passed through a GENUINE roady with these lights in.If it is dull lighting, then expect a question or two about them...Also bare in mind, you are not allowed to run blue lights of ANY description.. They are reserved for emergency vehicles ONLY..

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    Legally, the characters on the number plate must be visible from 20 metres away—at any point within an arc of 45 degrees from the surface of the plate, above or to either side of the vehicle.""

    Taken from here... ( not guessing)
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    Now as for the interior light, if you run ANY sort of color apart from the standard, expect to get pulled over....Pretty simple that one, it is just an attention getter. So expect attention..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Classifi3d Calais View Post
    i replaced my interior lights with color changing LED's

    Now all of my interior lights (its a calais so 9 of them) change color at the same time
    are you sure they change at the same time?
    For changing colour leds i was pretty sure they had to run off the same modulator to make them the same colour at the same time, or they just change at slightly different rates and arent always the same colour.
    If you found something that changes at the same time, I want it!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss-E View Post
    are you sure they change at the same time?
    For changing colour leds i was pretty sure they had to run off the same modulator to make them the same colour at the same time, or they just change at slightly different rates and arent always the same colour.
    If you found something that changes at the same time, I want it!!
    Iv noticed that after maybe 3 min running, they begin to change timing, but only occasionally. Most of the time they are all in time. I ended up just making it the top 3 lights (3 roof lights) because i could not see a dam thing in my car otherwise. That is till i fix my map lights, they are not making connection properly.

    I got the globes at Autobarn @ $9.99 each

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    What you need is one of these little critters... Ultra hard to find on their own,without having to buy a whole led kit.... Full speed control, can change the display.. This is the dash control unit, so you can see what style your led's are going at...Has output for 16 seperate led's......Just have to wire your led's into this magical little box, then stand back and go W O W.....PRETTIES...

    Now make me an offer i can't refuse and it can be all yours.....

    Pics, and i even made a video, so you can see it in action... Remember what you see on the display, is what the led's will be doing...




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    We've got sumthin similar to that. It's a 30cm LED light thingo and it comes with a controller similar to urs. It shows the LED's on the controller the same so maybe u could use that. The light was under $50 from Repco.

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    just went thru the same thing. i rang regency bout the blu interior lights, and they said as long as it's not visible from the outside of the vehicle, it's ok to have.

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    I dont see how that would work without rewiring the interior lights of your car. They all run off the same circuit, but each led has 3 colours in it, so you need 4 wires for each one, one for each colour + the ground.

    Would it be easier to get something that sends out a sync pulse so you wouldnt have to rewire the lights that you want to be changing colour?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss-E View Post
    I dont see how that would work without rewiring the interior lights of your car. They all run off the same circuit, but each led has 3 colours in it, so you need 4 wires for each one, one for each colour + the ground.

    Would it be easier to get something that sends out a sync pulse so you wouldnt have to rewire the lights that you want to be changing colour?
    Actually no u dont u can get RGBs that work off the same circuitry and only have the 2 legs (1 pos+ and 1 neg- leg) we got them at work
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    Quote Originally Posted by STEALTHY View Post
    You will get defected for the number plate lights. Just get some pure white globes that truckies use for those.

    I bought a neon globe for my interior light from Autobahn.
    Yep Stealthy is right and here is the link to the Australian Vehicle Standards Rules 1999

    Look for pg 64 Number plate lights.

    http://www.ntc.gov.au/filemedia/Refo...ardsRules1.pdf

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