Hi Guys,
I did the retrofit of all internal lighting of my Volvo S-40 2007.
I changed that horrible light green color by cold white LEDs
I created a new design for the white-backlit instrument panel and changed the red needles to white.





Hope you like it.

 

 

you should post some pics of the ipad dash mod you did with sufficient ambient lighting so that we can see it as well.

 

Hi Youdoofus
I'll post more pics.

 

Can you please share how you did the change over to white lights with blue indicators? Also the white gauges look amazing!

 

Hi Cboyz,
Thank you very much for your reply.
I have 3 dash instruments, I've been working in some designs for it.
In a cluster with blue illumination I used a round EL blue panel that I imported from England, but the EL panels use inverters and the inverters do make a high pitch whistle unfortunately, in the other two I used a round white acrylic and I changed the original cluster's smds for a high bright smds.

 

 

That looks wizard! I'll bet it's easier to read in daylight conditions as well, and the dimmer should work if it seems too overpowering at night.

There's a lot of surface-mount LED unsoldering and soldering there, but the results are worth it!

How many LEDs total for the gage cluster? The center panel?

Mark

 

Hi Mark
Thank you very much for your reply.
There are 24 SMDs leds (3 for RPM, 3 for KPH and 18 for warning lights)

 

 

The final version of my dash number 1

 

The final version of my cluster number two

 

One more photo

from my new dash, under the amazing Porto Alegre's sunset lights