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woh! chavtastic!
Anyway, you need a variety of different bulbs...some are soldered in, so you need to take apart the switches and see what the LED is then go buy some...handy if you have a maplins somewhere near you!
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whites cool...blue is a bit 90s chav
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Looks good, im getting me some Lockwood white dials which gave me the idea to go for the blue led's
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Just but some 12v LED strip you can normally get it on a role.
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I have a few of them kicking about the place collecting dust!
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Why just no to LED strip?
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you will most likely get hot spots on the dials...
See 40, 10 and 50 on kingy's pics
this is just because the pattern is a lot more focused on a standard led package then a lamp.
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My led's come in the post today so I will get them on tomorrow and take a night time picture, would dimming the lights a little bit help stop the hot spots?
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Where the hot spots are get a sticky label and put it on the back of the dials. Helps rid hot spots. Or just get proper LEDs. Iirc the hot spots are caused by the flat led. Maybe try rounded ones for better light displacement
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Its the dome of the led that acts as a lens and focuses the light in to such a tight beam the better ones I've seen are actually concave on the end.
But at the end of the day YMMV.