RGB instrument lighting — logbook Toyota Corolla 1999
He noted that the brightness of the standard instrument panel is not enough. Bought RGB strips. using the MGTFa meter and hot glue, I assembled the backlight in the dashboard. Switching was done with ordinary toggle switches, because of this, only 7 fixed colors were obtained. I put the buttons in a small glove compartment to the right of the steering column. Time spent about an hour.
PS The photo quality and color rendition is not quite correct due to a bad camera in the phone, there was nothing else at hand.
Issue price: 600 ₽ Mileage: 171.935 km
Cool! How do you wire it so that the lights only turn on when the headlights are on?
Well, yes, I soldered +/- to the standard backlight contacts. But RGB is unnecessary show-off. Better, brighter and cheaper just put white ribbons on the scales and red smd diodes on the arrows =)
Yes, it's just like everything. First, with a small Phillips screwdriver, unscrew 2 screws from the black lining in front of the panel, pull it out and put it away. then three screws securing the tidy itself. But unscrewing them is half the trouble. You will have to remove the casing of the radio and crawl from there to the speedometer with your hand to disconnect the cable. This requires, firstly, thin hands, because it is extremely inconvenient to screw around inside the panel, and secondly, you will have to find the latch at the end of the cable with your fingers and press it to disconnect the panel. Well, then it remains to disconnect a few electrical terminals and pull them out ...
in general terms, so
What is RGB LEDs heard? .here is a tape with such red-green-blue LEDs (they are made on the same chip) and put it inside the tidy. It differs from your white tape only by the presence of 4 contacts (+++-), instead of two (+-). Switched by three toggle switches. specifically, purple is an optical mixture of red and blue, that is, two of the three toggle switches are turned on.