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The ebay vender can't seem to get me the exact specs on these LED's. I did talk to another place that sells something similar and looked up their specs: http://www.superbrightleds.com/morei...panel-led/709/
They said I could try putting a resistor in the power supply - which would be the two pink/black wires shown in the 91FSM (Elect.) on 8A-202-1. These two wires come together on the flexible circuit board and then fan out to power all of the warning lights in the DIC. They suggested trying something around a 1K ohm, 1/4W resistor. Anyone care to opine on this?
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Well crap. Just tried splicing into the pink/black hot wires with a pair of 1K ohm, 1/2 watt resistors that I had laying around..... and the two dim lights that aren't supposed to be on are still on. About ready to just say screw it and put the incandescents back in grrrrrrrr.
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Today I tried plugging a rheostat into the middle of the pink/black keyed hots that feed all the trouble lights in the DIC. It had a range of 2 - 10K ohms. My plan was to add resistance to the circuit until the dim bulbs (which are supposed to be off) actually turned off. To make a long story short it did a fine job acting as a dimmer switch for the LED's that were supposed to be lit - it did now however seem to effect the dim problem bulbs in the least?!?! Even at 10k ohms they remained glowing. How can this be? I even unplugged it to see if they were somehow getting power from elsewhere... nope, they went off. ARRRGGGG!
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Gave up on the DIC for a while and worked on my heated seat switches. I've been having a heck of a time trying to duplicate the factory illumination color. The unlit color was pretty easy to match - hobby store spray paint called "Camel Yellow" is very close. I sprayed this into the engraving from the backside. I then tried lighting it with the amber LED strip but it was way more yellow than the factory color which is more of a dark brownish orange. Next I tried a more orangy yellow spray paint behind the camel yellow... still too yellow. Finally I took a very dark orange marker and went over the letters again.... still to yellow. Then I got smart and I realized that the amber LED's were the problem. I bought some new clear LED strips, much better, went over the LED lenses with a red marker and perfect as you can see below in the second pic.
 
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I glued my new switch panels down onto the FX3 controller bezel and installed all of the switches. Sorry about the poor quality pics, my camera lense needs to be cleaned up.
 
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LEDs take LOW current and range in voltag depending on color.. not sure dimming them is the same as dimming the incandescent bulbs
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