[72silverchevelle]

To replace the turn signal, brights and hazard lights in the dash with LED's, I can just splice into the appropriate wire and hook it up, right?

 

[John_Muha]

A straight LED usually takes a current limiting resistor is series with one lead. If you are trying to replace the 194 bulbs with LEDs, they make a drop in replacement automobile LED that replaces those bulbs.

 

[72silverchevelle]

Well, I am getting a Covans and was planning on putting these in the dash to replace the existing lights and bulbs for the things I mentioned. http://www.americanautowire.com/products/Mini_Bulbs_and_LEDs.cfm

Would cutting the old wire and connecting it to these work, or would I need to do something else?

 

[John_Muha]

Should work.

 

[72silverchevelle]

Thanks.

 

[EkS]

Those LEDs are interesting. I bet they have some sort of resistor in the casing. Update the thread once you're done with the installation and let us know how they look and function.

 

[webfoot]

My dash that I linked you to in an earlier thread has LEDs for blinker and hi-beam indicators. I got some with black bezels that press into the dash. Hook to a ground and connect the + lead from the LED to the correct wire in the 12-pin connector.

I want to add a red one so I have a voltage indicator.

 

[vrooom3440]

Note that Covan's uses American Autowire for their "bundled" dash harness wiring. Further the dash harness thus provided uses very small LEDs for turn/stop/high beam indicators. By all appearances they were straight wired into the circuits with no resistors whatsoever.

Note that the blue high beam will be too bright this way and you will want to do something to detune it a bit.

If these things were not so small they just might look hokey.

 

[72silverchevelle]

I am just buying the dash from them, not the guages and wiring harness. Do you know what size the LED's are they provide? I don't want to get ones that are to big.

 

[webfoot]

I am very happy with the size of my LEDs. I can try to take pics in the next day or so. Mine are not from covan's, I got them from another website. (cant remember which one!!)

 

[vrooom3440]

Kurt,

They are quite small, without measuring I would put it at 1/8" or less.

Steve

 

[webfoot]

These are where I got mine:

http://www.detroitspeed.com/LEDs10.html

I used the 1/4 inch ones.

 

[72silverchevelle]

Thanks for the link.