Change LED Colour in Gauge Cluster
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Attachment 51341 After: Attachment 51342 First off, I need to give credit to where I got this idea. http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/209/45/ And secondly, Im not responsible for any mistakes you could make causing damage to your bike or yourself! Now, he did it of course to his Kawasaki, and I own a 2001 CBR600 F4I. It’s pretty similar, but there is much more work involved on the F4I because there is a lot of disordering required. Here is everything you will need for this project. o The tools required to take off your front fairing o A Philips head screwdriver o soldering pen (I used mine at 15 watts) o tweezers or needle nose pliers to work with the itty bitty LED's o 3.5mm x 2.8mm Surface Mount Leds [(I used EA3528PBC-A / EA3528RWC-A ) Be sure to order more than what you need incase you lose one. These things are sooo tiny, I lost one] o Thin Rosen-Core Solder o Desoldering Braid So you need to remove the Gauge from your bike. This is what my stock set-up looked like. Attachment 51343 To do this you most likely need to remove the fairing like I had to. That you should already know how to do because its Preschool stuff. Once that is off, remove the wire harnesses to your gauge and remove the 3 Philips screws attaching the gauge to the frame. Ignore the bolt, its not part of the process. Attachment 51344 Now make sure you have a clean working space and all of your tools Attachment 51345 Now remove all the screws on the back of the gauge cluster so you can take the housing apart to reveal this!! Attachment 51346 Now you will need to remove the needle on the Tachometer. Lift needle over the needle stop pin and let it come to rest just on the other side of the needle. This is where you want to reinstall it when you are ready to put it back in. Use 2 spoons like below to get it off. A fork works really well too. Attachment 51347 Now for the time consuming part. In order to reach the LED's you will need to remove your gauge and LCD screen. To do this requires Desoldering. That’s right! You need to remove the solder already on the board. It takes a little patience and a steady hand but as you move along it will get easier. This is the first time I ever did it and I don’t think it was very hard. Attachment 51348 Attachment 51349 Attachment 51350 Now this is what you have Attachment 51351 And here are all of the LED's on the board. Attachment 51352 Once again, you need to desolder. I didn’t use the braid for this. I used tweezers and grabbed onto the LED's and pulled gently as I used melted the solder holding the LED's onto each end. ***Please remove one LED at a time and replace it with the new one. You do not want to get confused where they go or which side is negative and which one is positive. THIS IS CRUCIAL!! *** "LEDs are a diode the current must flow the correct way. You will notice that in one corner, there is a small triangular molded notch, this is the Cathode or negative end." Make sure to don’t cross positive and negative ends please. Once they are off, put the new LED's on and maybe test it before you put everything back together. If they work, great! If not, you screwed up and it’s not my fault! Reassemble your gauge cluster and your bike and you are all done!! Once again, for more information, check out these 2 sites. Both were a big help along the way, and the second site will actually do all of this for you if you don’t mind coughing up $$$$$ and mailing your gauge to them. http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/209/45/ http://www.bluegauges.com/motorcycle/f4i.htm |
where'd all the pics go?!
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I am not to sure?
Maybe the Mods will know better? |
The pics were linked from cbrworld which no longer exists. You'll have to find the cached copies and upload them yourself.
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Originally Posted by F34Me?
(Post 1072028)
The pics were linked from cbrworld which no longer exists. You'll have to find the cached copies and upload them yourself.
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eled is out of EA3528PBC-A - 3.5X2.8MM BLUE SMD LED and says use sunled.com for new parts.
i found these - [URL="http://www.sunledusa.com/products/spec/XZCBD45S.pdf"[/URL] will they work? |
Originally Posted by James Stierwalt
(Post 1266341)
eled is out of EA3528PBC-A - 3.5X2.8MM BLUE SMD LED and says use sunled.com for new parts.
i found these - [URL="http://www.sunledusa.com/products/spec/XZCBD45S.pdf"[/URL] will they work? |
Just subbing in so I can find this later. I'm wanting to do blue on my bike.
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Great write up !
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