Hellbore
Enlightened
I have an old 1975 Ford F-150 pickup truck. The instrument cluster has little light bulb sockets to backlight the instruments. The plastic of the sockets has broken and the bulbs won't stay in. There are I think 3 small bulbs providing backlighting, then a few separate bulbs for blinker lights, warning lights, etc.
I was thinking it would be fun to take it out and mod it to use LED's, because the bulbs seem to not last very long. If I mod it to LED's I never have to change bulbs again.
I was thinking of putting 2 or 3 Cree XR-E's p2 bin, for the backlighting, and using some bright 5mm LED's for the blinker lights and other idiot lights.
However, with several separate circuits, I could end up in the poor house trying to buy drivers for each. So, can I do this with just resistors? Can someone help me figure out what resistors to use to drive off the 12-14 volts of battery power?
Thanks if you can help with this project! Or if you think it's totally overkill, let me know LOL...
I was thinking it would be fun to take it out and mod it to use LED's, because the bulbs seem to not last very long. If I mod it to LED's I never have to change bulbs again.
I was thinking of putting 2 or 3 Cree XR-E's p2 bin, for the backlighting, and using some bright 5mm LED's for the blinker lights and other idiot lights.
However, with several separate circuits, I could end up in the poor house trying to buy drivers for each. So, can I do this with just resistors? Can someone help me figure out what resistors to use to drive off the 12-14 volts of battery power?
Thanks if you can help with this project! Or if you think it's totally overkill, let me know LOL...