Thread: Defender LED Dash Lighting Upgrade video tutorial

Originally Posted by McBrain

Do you know if any of the globes here would fit the front sidelights (the white domes) on the front of the 110?

Might be a good replacement for existing globes?





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Sorry mate don't really know. If you mean the front parker lights then they are your standard bayonet single pin. They are also sold by the above company I believe.

Why not use green LED's ?

Originally Posted by Bushman83

Thanks. The online store I ordered them from is
6-Chip SMD (Hi Power) : BL LED Optronics Corp., Lighting up with LEDs!

LED's are sold in pairs so buy 3 pairs, use 5 and keep 1 spare. :-)
Be sure to buy the white ones as the built in green lens in the dials muddies up the other colours... I did try removing the green cap out of my voltmeter but detroyed it in the process, hence why I have a different voltmeter at the end of the video!

is it o.k. that i laughed at the point where you said you destroyed the green cap

Brett, that's fantastic, mate
Very professional presentation.
Should be on 4X4 TV

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Just ordered mine, should be here Tuesday and installed the same day

Originally Posted by lardy

is it o.k. that i laughed at the point where you said you destroyed the green cap

haha.. I actually destroyed the voltmeter while removing (destroying) the green cap! I wans't laughing!

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Why not use green LED's ?

Technically you probably could use green led's... but the luminous intensity of green led's is 11.9 lumens compared to the white ones which are 29.6 Lumens. I'd expect by the time the green led light passes through the green filter you will have lost some light. Though if you manage to carefully remove the inbuilt green caps from behind the instruments it shouldn't pose a problem.

I originally planned on taking out all the caps and using red led's (16.2 Lumens). I did that with my voltmeter and it was quite a stunning red!... but I unfortunately destroyed the voltmeter while trying to remove the green inbuilt cap.. Hence I recommend just leaving the instruments as they are and using the higher intensity white led's!