Ok so as most of you may know from my thread and postings i have broke my leg bad. As some of you may not know, I am in Cali and just finished a Microminiature Circuit Board Repair Course tuaght by the Marine Corps. I am an 8641 Circuit Board Repair tech now added to my primary job of 2846. Link to my job that i am now certified for: Marine Corps Enlisted Job Descriptions -- 8641 -- Microminiature Repairer
Before opting to do this course I wanted to change the backlight of my hayabusa gauges but not pay 115 bucks for bluegauges to do it. I am now thinking, once i do my gauges, if it is not too difficult, to offer my services to all the members of the Org for cheaper than bluegauges as a hobby while i have a broken leg or as long as people want it done. To my knowledge it is a total of 25 LEDs in the gauge (From memory i may be wrong, chime in if you know for sure). Now i bookmarked a link to surface mount LEDs that replace the ones in the gauges
eLED.com, your online source of LEDs. Products include: LED Lamp, LED Display. SMD LED, SMT LED, Surface Mount, Ultra Bright LED, White & Blue LED, Circuit Board Indicators, Dot Matrix Display, Light Pipe, IR & Phototransist www.dotcom-monitor.com
Yes those are green but they come in multiple colors, whichever you may want. I look at the brightness and go from there to determine which would be the best. I do not want to pay super cheap for them as i do not want cheap quality. For now I just want to know any org members currently that would be interested in me doing this for them. I will let you choose the color and before i did it show you the link to the LEDs i will get. If anyone knows a really nice surface mount LED supplier chime in
. Im going to buy 30 LEDs for each project in case they arrive to me broken. I figure you northern guys wont be riding much so this would be the best time to send the gauge cluster away if you want this done. A ball park figure for how much i will charge is 50-60 bucks and that will include return shipping to you guys. I dont want to make much money if at all on these, its just a service to give back to the org 
. If by some miraculous act of God you gauge cluster is broken in my posession it will be my responsibility and i will replace it. I have obviously been trained on how to hand circuit cards, ESD, handling and all that stuff so i wont break you gauges I just say that to ease any kind of worry there might be.
As i said i have not decided to do this yet just want to see how much interest there would be if i did offer this service to you guys. Im shopping for a nice soldering iron kit with LED display with a bunch of tips and such so i have all the tools i need. I dont think my little cheap soldering iron is the best for this job, its easy but i still need the right tips for the iron. Most of the profit from these will pay the nice soldering iron kit off cause they arent cheap. So just let me know if anyone would be interested in this.
I think i may buy a cheap/broken gauge and use that first to see the difficulty of getting everything apart. I will be doing my gauges first and posting the pics before and after before i even start to do anyone's here on the Org. This thread is just to see if anyone is interested again. If you want to see my certificate of course completion the Marine Corps has given me i will be happy to show it to you. I think it would be cool to do something like this for the Org that i learn so much from.
I get back to NC friday. If i can get a dummy gauge cluster to work on ill probly attempt this in 2 weeks. Ill start offering this service after that depending on how many people want me to do it. Even if one person shows interest ill probly still do it. I want the nice soldering iron kit, its useful to have.
Okay enough of me rambling
. let me know guys
^^Note: If i happened to miss explaining anything above. Let me know. I was rambling alot and everything got deleted once so i tried to retype everything i said the first time.
EDIT: Ahh im so stupid I forgot the most mandatory thing for the ORg! Pics! photos are the work i will be doing. photos borrow from bluegauges.com
I might be able to do mix/match color variations like bluegauges does also. Like i said its all about once i get inside a set of busa gauges to see what its like
Before opting to do this course I wanted to change the backlight of my hayabusa gauges but not pay 115 bucks for bluegauges to do it. I am now thinking, once i do my gauges, if it is not too difficult, to offer my services to all the members of the Org for cheaper than bluegauges as a hobby while i have a broken leg or as long as people want it done. To my knowledge it is a total of 25 LEDs in the gauge (From memory i may be wrong, chime in if you know for sure). Now i bookmarked a link to surface mount LEDs that replace the ones in the gauges
eLED.com, your online source of LEDs. Products include: LED Lamp, LED Display. SMD LED, SMT LED, Surface Mount, Ultra Bright LED, White & Blue LED, Circuit Board Indicators, Dot Matrix Display, Light Pipe, IR & Phototransist www.dotcom-monitor.com
Yes those are green but they come in multiple colors, whichever you may want. I look at the brightness and go from there to determine which would be the best. I do not want to pay super cheap for them as i do not want cheap quality. For now I just want to know any org members currently that would be interested in me doing this for them. I will let you choose the color and before i did it show you the link to the LEDs i will get. If anyone knows a really nice surface mount LED supplier chime in
. Im going to buy 30 LEDs for each project in case they arrive to me broken. I figure you northern guys wont be riding much so this would be the best time to send the gauge cluster away if you want this done. A ball park figure for how much i will charge is 50-60 bucks and that will include return shipping to you guys. I dont want to make much money if at all on these, its just a service to give back to the org . If by some miraculous act of God you gauge cluster is broken in my posession it will be my responsibility and i will replace it. I have obviously been trained on how to hand circuit cards, ESD, handling and all that stuff so i wont break you gauges I just say that to ease any kind of worry there might be. As i said i have not decided to do this yet just want to see how much interest there would be if i did offer this service to you guys. Im shopping for a nice soldering iron kit with LED display with a bunch of tips and such so i have all the tools i need. I dont think my little cheap soldering iron is the best for this job, its easy but i still need the right tips for the iron. Most of the profit from these will pay the nice soldering iron kit off cause they arent cheap. So just let me know if anyone would be interested in this.
I think i may buy a cheap/broken gauge and use that first to see the difficulty of getting everything apart. I will be doing my gauges first and posting the pics before and after before i even start to do anyone's here on the Org. This thread is just to see if anyone is interested again. If you want to see my certificate of course completion the Marine Corps has given me i will be happy to show it to you. I think it would be cool to do something like this for the Org that i learn so much from.
I get back to NC friday. If i can get a dummy gauge cluster to work on ill probly attempt this in 2 weeks. Ill start offering this service after that depending on how many people want me to do it. Even if one person shows interest ill probly still do it. I want the nice soldering iron kit
, its useful to have. Okay enough of me rambling
. let me know guys ^^Note: If i happened to miss explaining anything above. Let me know. I was rambling alot and everything got deleted once so i tried to retype everything i said the first time.
EDIT: Ahh im so stupid I forgot the most mandatory thing for the ORg! Pics! photos are the work i will be doing. photos borrow from bluegauges.com
I might be able to do mix/match color variations like bluegauges does also. Like i said its all about once i get inside a set of busa gauges to see what its like
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