led lights

[dottelife]

So can anyone tell me what is the best brand of led lights to buy for the dash. And what do you have to do so you can still use the dimmer.

 

[565bbchevy]

I know a lot of people use Superbriteleds.com but I thought they were a little too pricey for something I just wanted to try out plus I wanted to try different colors to see what looked best with my gauges so I bought mine from:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/20-PCS-Super-Wh ... 3a86d92d7a

I have them in my dash, running lights and license plate lights the ones I used come with a built in diode so they only work one way the cheaper ones do not come with a diode.
I tried blue,red and green in my dash but decided to go with the white, I will say the blue looked really cool but made the faces of my gauges harder to read and red had a similar effect while the greens were easy to read the green glow looked a little odd but to each his own.
Also dimming does not really work it basically turns them off when you dial it down.
Here is a video of my led dash lights before I painted the gauge bezels black and replaced the steering wheel. http://youtu.be/-78xsO_Dydg

 

[dottelife]

Cool I'm gonna check them out. I might go with the blue one's.

 

[86 Grand prix]

LED's are diodes. they all will only work one way unless they have a special circuit that enables them to be wired backward and still operate.

 

[565bbchevy]

LED's are diodes. they all will only work one way unless they have a special circuit that enables them to be wired backward and still operate.

I was referring to the in line diode on the power lead not the actual Light Emitting Diode and you are correct that the LED only works one way.