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  1. It was done through LED Conversion.... change out all the LED to different color...
  2. Change the needle to blue like the IS-F.. also change the needle for the gas and temperature to blue.... Change the turn signal and other indicators to blue and white... Here are some picture.. I need to get better camera, needle doesn't show up blue well on the picture, since it's bright.. It's very nice deep blue in person... I'm gona try to take picture in day time.. that'll probably show the blue color better.... Stock IS-F IS-F250 Here is the video.. Also some more video showing the dash lights..
  3. He is going by the BIN chart that manufacturer provides.... and they rates the color is that temp range... not comparing with incandescent lights... (which is different from LED color temp) Typical red, amber, older green uses 1.8-2.2V LED depends on the type of LED, leaded, SMD, PLCC etc.... Blue, white, newer green uses 2.8-3.2V Each of the compoment in the car has it's own regulator to protect for voltage spikes... especially, guauge cluster, center console etc... Center console is easy to take out.. I saw him pulled it out in couple of min.... I don't think ease of access to change them out would be an issues.. I think you are way over thinking yourself.... Many of the LEDs has been improved alot over the years... and I think that it can replace most of the lights in the househole and automotive.... Lexus LS already have the LED headlight it seems to be comparable to halogen or better... I don't think it can compete with HID yet... I've replaced many of the lights around the house with LED bulbs... Also there are so many different types of LED for each bulbs.. some works better then some worst... it all depends on the design of the LED bulbs... My friend also showed me the actual 10w LED lit up.... those were like bliding bright... he said he can get 30 watt also.... but he said those needs pretty good size heat sink.... In my neighbor... they actually have LED street light.... it's not that bright, but it's solar powered.... for temporaty use..... Most of the Traffic lights in Las Vegas is replaced by LED.... so LED is getting around.... I didn't know LED were around 80 year.... but the reason that many people don't use them is that.... first they don't know what LED is.... and second it's way too expensive compare to incandesent bulb..... comparing lumen/$$ to lumen/$$ I goto the car meet freqently and talk to many people and most of them don't know what LED is... there are few that knows but mostly LED for like simple parking lights and simple LED dome lights...
  4. If you have white LED's there is bad news that comes with that. If you have true white or "super" white LED's, they produce an utraviolet light that causes photodegradation to the resin that makes up the LED, also, The "Stokes shift" is longer and requires more energy and hence is less efficient, and creates more heat than an RGB LED, which is how it creates a whiter, and brighter LED. That's why white LED's don't last that long. It has nothing to do with the "quality" of the LED. An RGB LED will last 3x's longer, and the new amber LED's will also. I have a feeling that is why Lexus used a color LED for those displays, as they are very inaccessable for replacement. The instrument cluster LED's are much easier to access and therefore they felt ok with using them there. But that is only an opinion. The only answer I know of that addresses this problem just came out, but it's not a true white LED. In fact it looks more like an incandescent light somewhere in the 3000-3500 K light spectrum range. ( which would have a faint yellowish to it.) But even so, the life span of a white LED or NUV LED, is in the practical range of 50,000 hours of continuos life, a little shorter in a car where voltage fluctuates and spikes. If you want to make your LED's worry free and also make all your other electronic equipment last longer, you might want to consider a Hyper voltage system. You can check it out for yourself. My opinion???, still looks great, and I would do it anyway also. I just finished getting the right load resistance for the NUV LED's or white LED also. It's 3.2 volts. HHHHmmmmm, maybe in a few weeks.... I've just talked with my friend... 3000-3500k would be more of yellow color.. not a warm white.. Warm white would be more around 4000-5000k.... He can get from warm white 4000-5000k 6000k-7000k cool white and like 8000k bluish white... There is different color temperature for like white LED.... even though they have shorter life, it will out last the car..... Many of the new white LED has improved alot.. so there is no need to worry over white LED... Also many of the electronics on the car is voltage regulated and current regulated... the voltage spike has very little issue.. I've seen so many cars comes with white LED for the gauge cluster these days... Example like Toyota camry, Honda accord, civic... also new Scion xD comes withe white LED..... So white LEDs no longer an issue with reliability...
  5. I've changed out the LED bulbs for like dome lights and parking lights etc.. before... All the stuff on my car now is all new stuff... he haven't updated on his site.... He said it uses all high power SMD type LED... some are flux type.... that's all that I know.... He installs them at the local car meet recently and I see the big difference in brightness and better color output
  6. It's just white... not bright white.... I like the idea of matching color.... since we have white gauge cluster, why not match it to that... I try to get my other friend to do blue.....
  7. Most of the bulbs are plug and play, but for the center console, push start button, all the green lights on the dash needs to be custom installed... using soldering iron.... So that leaves the two dome lights that are plug and play... I guess that voids some warranty. Any parts that you modify or change them out will voide the warranty.... What could it go wrong with change the light bulb with LED bulb.. other then blowing a fuse... I know LEDmod.com has been doing this kind of work for like 4 years, so I trust him.... Specialize in Toyota and Scion cars... first time for Lexus IS, but results were great..... I was told that red LED won't work well on IS center console, unless if you add some resistor or change out the resistor on the stock circuit board... Blue and white would be just swapping them out on the stock... I've tried all the superbrightleds.com stuff... some of the LED bulb starts to flicker over time and most of them aren't that bright.... He hooked me up with all the new LED bulbs, and it is brighter then all of the bulb I used to have.....
  8. Most of the bulbs are plug and play, but for the center console, push start button, all the green lights on the dash needs to be custom installed... using soldering iron.... I've tried using LED bulb on the side mirror lights, but it was dim... since LED bulbs direction light, it doesn't have much lights going to the side... So LEDmod.com custom made the circuit board with 9 high power LED and it's bright as hell.... as you can see from picture.. even with HID headlight, you can clearly see the side mirror light..... I was the first guinea pig, so I've got a hella of a deal..... What ever lighting on the dash is paint in the !Removed!.... it's alot of labor... probably like 10 hours of labor to convert all the green lights to white....
  9. I guess most people just go on without paying attention, since most of them don't know about this kind of modification I'm very into LED lights.... Those are still show... parts aren't that easy to get hold of.... :D They made it look so easy.... If the white isn't the suitable color then, which color does it suits?? Many of the Lexus and Toyota are switching to white gauges.... and it looks nice and clean.... It's getting pretty popular now is the "VIP Style" It's pretty common thing in California, that you fix up Lexury cars... most of them look for simple and clean look.. Why I don't like green?? I've used to own many of the older Toyota cars and they always been green.... also many cheap cars uses green.... Mine is all high power stuff, best of the best.... brightest in the market... LEDmod.com has so much selection and from basic LED to very high end stuff... like 36 LED for the rear dome light....
  10. It works just like the stock green.... It's slight brighter then !Removed! green color Do you really like the green color that doesn't even match your nice white LED light on gauge cluster?? I rather have it matched then have white here and green there etc... Why on earth wouldn't you do that?? it matches very nice now?? I've got like white LED every where, inside and out....
  11. Got pretty much everything converted to white from green through LEDmod.com Also all the interior lighting has been change to super bright white LED My car was the guinea pig but it turned out great.... I left my car over the weekend and not it feels like totally different car... Most of all the !Removed! green colors are gone..... Only green color that is left are steering wheel control, window control, TRC/ETC control Lots of picture can be found here... http://store.ledmod.com/index.php?main_pag...;products_id=45
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