2001 tahoe swapping led to ac controls

[Cattivo]

I used the 5mm also in my build, but I did use 3mm in a few spots where I thought the bulb needed to be smaller. Also I used flat top blue LED in spots for better diffusion of light. Yours looks great, nice job @Cattivo

Thanks brother, IMHO the way I did it a regular(round headed) 5mm led bulb worked perfect in every switch/component except for the lower half of the ac controls, I would recommend using 4- 3mm led's in that location

I also filed down 2- 5mm led's(about 1/4'') for some ambient lighting in the over head map light console

 

[mbp1979]

Thanks brother, IMHO the way I did it a regular(round headed) 5mm led bulb worked perfect in every switch/component except for the lower half of the ac controls, I would recommend using 4- 3mm led's in that location

I also filed down 2- 5mm led's(about 1/4'') for some ambient lighting in the over head map light console

Did you do your power mirror switch?

 

[Cattivo]

Did you do your power mirror switch?

Not yet, I just replaced the power mirror switch because they weren't working...I'm going to add an led to that switch as well

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

Post a pic of your controls

Here ya go.

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

Did you do your power mirror switch?

Cool post pics

 

[mbp1979]

Ok just wondering i already done mine just going to see if u found a way to better light up the direction switch

 

[mwilson62000]

Here is a diagram of the climate control with marks for polarity. Problem is I did this a while back and I can't remember if the mark is positive or negative. Get one led in correctly and you should be able to tell the way the rest go in.

 

[Archer04]

I did not do my moon roof switch yet, I had to replace that whole console. I tried to to the homelink switches but the bulbs in that are tiny and I screwed it up. So I bought a another one off ebay. I am going to use the old one for testing and see if I can get it done. If I do I will post the results. Loved the LEDs you did cattivo they look great.

 

[Cattivo]

Thanks @Archer04 , you should try opening up the switch and glueing the led bulbs in place. Takes half the time of soldering them in.

I'm also going to be adding more to my door panel once the weather warms up

 

[05Single]

Here is a diagram of the climate control with marks for polarity. Problem is I did this a while back and I can't remember if the mark is positive or negative. Get one led in correctly and you should be able to tell the way the rest go in.View attachment 76343

Yo wth is that black crap above the digital gauge ?

 

[mwilson62000]

Lol. Must have had the paper too close to me painting something and got some overspray on it.

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

Here ya go.View attachment 76332

I'm just going to sneak a wire from the sunroof switch into the a/c control and do it that way because I can't figure out the crazy way it's set up in the controller.

 

[M1Gunner]

Looking are both rear controls also anyone

These are the front controls in my 04 Z. Let me know what I can help with man.

Don't mind the radio head unit...

and here are the roof console rear controls front and rear modules

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

Ok, I figured it out two of the lights in the rear AC controller are set in One Direction positive and negative linked together in series and the other two are linked together in series in the opposite direction. So what I did was take a small screwdriver and broke the circuit in two spots and wired jumpers to correct the polarity. Here are some pics hope this helps. PS I did use a meter to find the positive and negative pins on the plug and trace them all out from there.

If you zoom in on the top picture you can see where I cut the circuits. And if you zoom in on the bottom picture you can see where I ran the jumpers. Red being positive and black being negative.

 

[M1Gunner]

Ok, I figured it out two of the lights in the rear AC controller are set in One Direction positive and negative linked together in series and the other two are linked together in series in the opposite direction. So what I did was take a small screwdriver and broke the circuit in two spots and wired jumpers to correct the polarity. Here are some pics hope this helps. PS I did use a meter to find the positive and negative pins on the plug and trace them all out from there.

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If you zoom in on the top picture you can see where I cut the circuits. And if you zoom in on the bottom picture you can see where I ran the jumpers. Red being positive and black being negative.

That's a unique way of doing it. May I ask why you didn't remove the bulbs and use a power source and your multimeter to find the polarities and route? How long did you have to spend doing it that way?

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

That's a unique way of doing it. May I ask why you didn't remove the bulbs and use a power source and your multimeter to find the polarities and route? How long did you have to spend doing it that way?

I set my meter on continuity and traced out the circuits. I started at one of the lights and found the positive pin then on a hunch off of visual I traced out the negative side that's when I figured out that they were wired up and some funky series. It only took about 20 minutes to figure it out and solder in the jumpers.

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

Here is a pic

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

I did not do my moon roof switch yet, I had to replace that whole console. I tried to to the homelink switches but the bulbs in that are tiny and I screwed it up. So I bought a another one off ebay. I am going to use the old one for testing and see if I can get it done. If I do I will post the results. Loved the LEDs you did cattivo they look great.

Check this out...

 

[05Single]

That is a 2004 tahoe

Yea I know, the other truck in the pic

 

[TXBowtieGuy]

Yea I know, the other truck in the pic

I was showing yall I got the Homeland buttons to work. The circuit was easy to trace. Didn't even need to my meter. The positive side has a diode on it. I used these leds I got from the Amazon...