New Problem

[clb0099]

porscheleds.com is where i bought the bulbs. I have been in contact with the seller all night.. now the oem bulbs don't work either .. and your saying polarized?... what would cause that.

[Dragonwind]

Funny you should mention this as I just get them running this morning on mine. I recently rebuilt my 99's cluster (I should do a write-up) and just put the white LEDs on the LCD's and I was having a heck of a time getting them to light. It does look good once you change them. I'm not so keep in the dials being white though.

Apparently you have to make sure all three LEDs are in the correct polarity for all of them to light. If one is out it can cause all of them to be out. The best thing to do is to try one at a time and plug in the black (right hand) cable and you'll see the LCD's power up briefly. You may have to bend the pins a little on the LED holders to get them to seat right too.

Next I am putting in a set of white face dials I have from a parts cluster.


Chris

[Lil bastard]

Originally Posted by clb0099

porscheleds.com is where i bought the bulbs. I have been in contact with the seller all night.. now the oem bulbs don't work either .. and your saying polarized?... what would cause that.

All LEDs are Polarized in that they depend on specific positive and negative poles (polarized). On an ordinary incandecent bulb, it doesn't matter if you put the positive (+) wire or negative (-) wire on either contact, it will still light. But, the LEDs need a specific path for the current to flow in order to light.