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Hip2u77
12-17-2006, 01:37 PM
If anyone is around with a FSM. . . could you let me know which wire behind the center stack is for the dash lights? I'd prefer to tap into the one for the hazard area cluster, but the HVAC area would also work. (I'm installing some lights to make the cupholders lighted.)

Thanks!

(P.S. I've got a test light here, so if the FSM is not easy to access then don't worry about it. I don't want anyone to have to go out of their way for something so minor.)
jdrogers
12-17-2006, 02:20 PM
Here ya go... you want the orange with gray strip, circuit E12.

http://www.********.com/newjeep/panellamps.jpg
Hip2u77
12-17-2006, 02:35 PM
Perfect timing. I just walked back in the door from picking up some more wore connectors.

Thank you much!


For those that want to do this. I tried lots of different lighting ideas and ended up settling on the 5' "El Neon String" by "Optx by StreetGlow".

I just pulled the cup holders out, drilled a little hole down through the bottom corner at a 45 degree angle (towards the passenger foot well), fished the neon string up through the hole and wrapped it out the bottom area a couple times and then just stuck the cup holders back down. (The rubber cup holder just pulls out.)

The rest of the string was tucked up under the side of the console and the transformer will set behind the center stack. So far in testing it works great. The little "pillows" in the cup holders have openings at the bottom, so a nice blue glow comes from those 3 areas on each cup holder. Not intrusive at all, and no L.E.D's blinding you.

After I get this buttoned back up I'll try to snap some pictures of it. . . though I just picked up a Canon S2IS and haven't figured out how to drive it yet, so the pictures will probably be crappy, at best.

Edit. . . Not a good picture, but you get the general idea.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Hip2u77/Cup-Holder.jpg
john_w
02-16-2007, 11:50 AM
Is that E12 circuit for the panel lamps a constant 12v or is it dimmed? I'm thinking about doing this install but the neon has a transformer... so what happens if you starting dimming your cluster display down? Does the neon then trip off b/c the voltage source is going too low?
Hip2u77
02-16-2007, 03:05 PM
Is that E12 circuit for the panel lamps a constant 12v or is it dimmed? I'm thinking about doing this install but the neon has a transformer... so what happens if you starting dimming your cluster display down? Does the neon then trip off b/c the voltage source is going too low?


It dims, and surprisingly the transformer doesn't seem to mind.
souvlaki99
08-07-2007, 12:03 PM
It dims, and surprisingly the transformer doesn't seem to mind.

Any more info/pictures of the final install?
este
08-07-2007, 12:22 PM
Its probably not dimmed its more likely PWM.

Its probably bad for a transformer and its fine for LEDs but watch your series resistance b/c you could be taxing to driver more then it was meant to.
Hip2u77
08-07-2007, 01:35 PM
Its probably not dimmed its more likely PWM.

Its probably bad for a transformer and its fine for LEDs but watch your series resistance b/c you could be taxing to driver more then it was meant to.


I'd assume you're talking about the potential flicker bothering the driver? If so, then there's none that I can see, and it's been running, dimmed, since December with zero problems. We run with the dash lights dimmed 99% of the time as my wife and I both think they're way too bright. (And I wish they would dim to off like every other vehicle I've had would.)

In any case, the cup holder lights are a little too dim when dimmed all the way down, so the next time I pull the center stack apart I'm going to just connect it to switched power.