Coffeelandy

Coffeelandy

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Gents,
I've started changing all of my switches to the RDX Carling switches with blue led. Trouble is, they light up so brightly that I'm getting dazzled at night and I can't see what the fecking switch is supposed to be since the symbol is blasted into obscurity by the led. There's only two changed at present and I've got 8 more to shove in I'm going to look like a drug dealer at this rate, have I done something wrong??
 
Nope, the RDX switches are medium quality Chinese switches, the LEDs they use are FAR too bright imo. I've got a mix of RDX & Carlings on my dash and the Carlings are 100x better, nice dimly lit green. Easy to see the legends and dont blind you. The RDX ones however reflect on my windscreen and are very bright, not too bad but its not fantastic.

I suppose what you could do is pop the switch tops off (easy to do with the tool, or carefully with a small flat screwdriver) and go over the LED with a black sharpie, should make the LED more opaque and thus dim the light.

Or if you want to be fancy fit an inline resistor
 
Yeah the resistor was what I thought. they are bloody ridiculous. I'm going to call bolton Bits tomorrow and see what they say. They bloody expensive for what they are!
 
Yeah stick a resistor in there ( if it doesn't fall to bits when you take it apart).
Seems to be the way with blue LEDs stupidly bright, uprated the front light on my bike as commuting at night with a headlamp that was ****e in the seventies was not fun and updated the idiot lights at the same time, ended up having to stick chewing gum over the high beam just to stop the headaches let alone seeing where I was going.
 
Very much so! If you've only got two fitted at the minute I'd bite the bullet and buy genuine Carlings again. Not all bad as you'll be able to use the switch top legends on the Carlings.

Theres not a lot of space inside the switch, I was thinking fit the resistor on the outside inline on the wiring.
 
bankz5152 said:
Very much so! If you've only got two fitted at the minute I'd bite the bullet and buy genuine Carlings again. Not all bad as you'll be able to use the switch top legends on the Carlings.

Theres not a lot of space inside the switch, I was thinking fit the resistor on the outside inline on the wiring.
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Yeah I was thinking shoving one outside of it. I'll try colouring in first though.
 
You could swap out the led's for less bright ones, I bet the inside of your truck glows blue?
I drove around for ages with some green led's on a power socket illuminating the inside of my 90 and anyone sitting in it, it was like a cheap 70's horror film driving past to anyone on the side of the road, I didn't realise until I seen the missus sitting in it one night all green in the face and scary like..
 
Yeah I think once all of them are in ill look like one of the fly zapping machines with blue light blasting out everywhere.
 
Bolt on bits, wont offer any help, useless on after care.

Their Td5 rev counter is useless, phoned them, no real help, spoke to them at LRO show and they said, oh yeah the early ones weren't very good, we have a better one now and shrugged. I'll never buy another cheap bit of tat sold by them again.

Subsequently had go find a marine gauge and adapt that, as at the time I could not find a proper genuine working Td5 one.

Of all the aftermarket suppliers of shiny things I have found them the worst.for quality and care.
 
I agree. They pump out some good ideas but basically their stuff is cheap shighte and they are seriously rude on the phone. I find their ebay ads really patronising and arrogant too. I'm not going back to them again.
 
Worse thing they could have done is have a stand at LRO, you get to see how cheap and flimsy their products are, RDX branded Defender headlight surrounds and grill are made from that plastic you get on a tray of Cadbury Fingers.
 
I live quite close to Bolt On Bits and went looking for some spots and other bits. Ended up leaving with nothing and ordering stuff online. Best thing for silly bright led's is a tip ex pen on the top
 
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