Re: Dash accent purple strip lighting
Reply #5 –
Went through all this last year, when a few sections of mine were dead. I peeled back a small section at the top, and it quit completely in that area.
I did call James, as nice as he was, he really wasn't much help. There is a place that does airplane dashes, someone recommended on here, but I didn't call them $$$$$$$$ I'm sure. I really didn't want to take the dash all apart, so I disconnected it.
So there are 3 sections, they are all three plugged into a converter, which changes the voltage from 12 DC, to like 80 AC. I will tell you this, as a FT tech, got my bell rang good messing with one. It must be a gazillion amps!
I took my converter out, when doing it, I found another one unhooked, so it must have gone bad.
If yours doesn't do anything, either there is no DC to converter, or the converter is unplugged, or bad.
Wish I still had mine, regret messing with it. Hard to see heat/air controls at night, but once the upper part was out, it really looked ugly. Mine was gold (green interior)
I bought some LED strips off ebay, and ran them around the top of dash. It worked good, and more or less helped at night. But kept falling down. I glued it, but got tired of messing with it, so I took it out.
I tried a cig lighter light, but couldn't get it aimed good, so gave up on it all. I did research stuff on ebay, I also found if you put light behind the part peeled back, it lights up. Was going to mess with that, but then again decided I didn't want to take the panels out. So I just enjoy the way it is, and turn on the map light when needed. Don't drive much at night anyway.
My plan was to replace the back aluminum with plexiglass, peel off the black facia,attach it to the plexi then put lights behind that. Would be easy to do, just take time and patience. May still do it some time.
Chris
Topic: Dash accent purple strip lighting