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Old Sep 25, 2008 | 03:20 PM
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So I finished up the gauge swap this past weekend and finally got around to taking pictures. Unfortunately, when the LCD was out of the bike, a certain someone at my house knocked it off the counter causing it to crack and no longer function... Luckily this was a spare gauge cluster and not the one on my bike. I switched out the LED's with ones from Digikey, along with the resistors (see https://cbrforum.com/m_647966/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#649475)to make sure I get closer to the rated brightness. Once I get time, I'll switch out my real gauge with this same color combo. If anyone needsgauges without the LCD (control board and tach still work) let me know, I can part with this one now Here are the pictures.

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Old Sep 25, 2008 | 04:33 PM
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looks good. not a big fan of the rainbow tach all that much. Maybe you should just buy spares, put l.e.d's in the them and sell them? lol
 
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Old Sep 30, 2008 | 02:26 PM
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Nicely done! You must be quite skilled at soldering and have a pretty nice iron. What values did you decide upon for your resistors? Did you take any pics while you had it taken apart?
 
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Old Sep 30, 2008 | 03:18 PM
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sucks about the display
 
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Old Sep 30, 2008 | 04:52 PM
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Nicely done! You must be quite skilled at soldering and have a pretty nice iron. What values did you decide upon for your resistors? Did you take any pics while you had it taken apart?
Thanks. I don't have any pic's from when it was apart, forgot the camera when I did it I will try to get some when I actually do the cluster that's on my bike. As for the resistors (size 2010 surface mount), here's how it broke down:

LCD Resistors:
Single Blue LED: 620 Ohm (just reused the one already on the board originally from the double LED)
Double Blue LED: 430 Ohm

Tach Resistors:

White-Blue section: 430 Ohm
Green-Yellow section: 500 Ohm
Red-Green section: 500 Ohm
 
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Old Sep 30, 2008 | 04:55 PM
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So I finished up the gauge swap this past weekend and finally got around to taking pictures. Unfortunately, when the LCD was out of the bike, a certain someone at my house knocked it off the counter causing it to crack and no longer function... Luckily this was a spare gauge cluster and not the one on my bike. I switched out the LED's with ones from Digikey, along with the resistors (see https://cbrforum.com/m_647966/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#649475)to make sure I get closer to the rated brightness. Once I get time, I'll switch out my real gauge with this same color combo. If anyone needsgauges without the LCD (control board and tach still work) let me know, I can part with this one now Here are the pictures.
Whu....?

Otherwise, looks good.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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looks great! would you be willing to sell me just the plastic housing? 2 of the mounting holes on mine have broken off :/
 
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Old Sep 30, 2008 | 08:01 PM
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Luck Runs Out,

The LCD cracked (the speedometer part) when I had it unsoldered from the main gauge cluster. I bought a spare cluster so I could experiment with this mod first before I did it to the actual one on my bike. So right now, I have the original one on my bike and this spare one sitting on the couch

Axsys,

Shoot me an offer, we could discuss it.
 
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