Hi,
I'm usually not good with this stuff and im sure its been done better than me but i bought a pack of LED's and was doing my explorer and thought 'hey, why not do my mustang too' so i popped the covers off and it had one of those 578 bulbs with the two connectors on each side, so i decided to make these:
What i did first was cut out a piece of project board. i just measured the old bulb on top and i didnt get the exact measurements but it ended up being 3 holes tall.
then i hot glued in 3 led's facing horizontally leaving 3 holes on each side of the end led's and one hole space inbetween each one, it just cleared the plastic bezel with these 'measurements'.
i took the old bulbs and cut off the two wire ends, and then just pryed the end caps off with a knife to use on the project board
then i arranged the negatives and the positives all to one side of the board, soldered in the resistors to the positive and lead it to one side then the negative to the other, i curled it around back to the project board just like the stock bulbs look like. i then put the end caps on until i could see the wire touching the end caps, i soldered the wires to the end cap and hot glued the sides of the end caps to the board to make sure. here is a picture of all of them
and the end results are posted below. hope this helped.
I'm usually not good with this stuff and im sure its been done better than me but i bought a pack of LED's and was doing my explorer and thought 'hey, why not do my mustang too' so i popped the covers off and it had one of those 578 bulbs with the two connectors on each side, so i decided to make these:
What i did first was cut out a piece of project board. i just measured the old bulb on top and i didnt get the exact measurements but it ended up being 3 holes tall.
then i hot glued in 3 led's facing horizontally leaving 3 holes on each side of the end led's and one hole space inbetween each one, it just cleared the plastic bezel with these 'measurements'.
i took the old bulbs and cut off the two wire ends, and then just pryed the end caps off with a knife to use on the project board
then i arranged the negatives and the positives all to one side of the board, soldered in the resistors to the positive and lead it to one side then the negative to the other, i curled it around back to the project board just like the stock bulbs look like. i then put the end caps on until i could see the wire touching the end caps, i soldered the wires to the end cap and hot glued the sides of the end caps to the board to make sure. here is a picture of all of them
and the end results are posted below. hope this helped.