Ryan

Taka,

Not sure if it is darker as I had two bulbs out for a while so I don't have a good recent comparison. I know the climate control looked a bit different than the radio when it was working and 100% stock. I remember it being a bit darker with more of a blue hue. Now it looks like the same color and a bit darker. The picture tells the story. This is only about a 2 hour job, uses readily available bulbs, and I like the result.

Ryan

Taka

yours is better than mine here's the picture when I used wrong bulb, I dont remember which part number I used. But now I have denso bulb, i'm happy with it.

Ryan

Here is the unit out of the car. Notice how you take it apart at the front of the unit.

mjr24

If you dont get the same exact voltage, wattage specs as the actual stock bulbs yours will burn out in a month I heard.

Ryan

Here are the bulbs you need:

mjr24

Hey Ryan,
You said you had to take the bulbs out of the gray socket and then put them in the black socket right?
Was it hard to get the bulbs out of the gray socket they came in? Do they just pull out?
Oh, and how do you know the OEM bulbs that were in there before were higher wattage?

Ryan

Mijr,

Not really all that concerned. Voltage is fixed man, remember V=IR. The question is in the resistance in the bulb filament and the associated current it will pull over the voltage. Given the brightness is very close to stock, I am going to loosly approximate that the power is fairly close to the same as well. Given that P=IV, I'm going to guess the current and resistance are pretty close.

Now a few of you EEs can poke a few holes in my assumptions as you take the limits of these equations to extremes; however, given the physical dimentions are so similar and it is such as basic part, I think I'm fairly safe.

Basically, ask me in a month, but I'm not worried!

mjr24

Oh, and yes the climate is supposed to be darker than the radio, I think someone posted a thread about this few months ago and everyone replied theres was the same, so dont worry.

mjr24

No, not trying to poke holes. I wish you posted this a week ago!
See I went to the ES board and someone posted they had fixed their radio LCD's...and had gotten the OEM stock bulb from Pioneer and that the climate ones were the same. I ordered 3 of them, 25 total, and they arrived today and they dont look at all like whats in my LCD. But he talked about, the guy who posted that, that he had gone through like 3 diff. sets of bulbs and that they burnt out within a month because the voltage or soemthing was different.

Ryan

Mijr,

1) It is easy to take them out.

2) I don't know, I am just guessing given the brightness. Look at stock set-ups in these cars (especially 92-93), they are darker than the AC unit too. I'm splitting hairs on the wattage question. Someone just look at my pictures and then compare it to an old OEM unit without burnt out bulbs.

Ryan

Ryan

Here is the package:

Ryan

Here are the 3 bulbs for the buttons - just twist and replace with the above bulbs:

Ryan

here are the famous pins - I didn't even flinch bending these back:

Ryan

oops

Ryan

Here they are, up close and personal, the elusive LCD bulbs: