Some time ago, I recall a thread detailing a little box with LEDs that you plugged into the knocklink itself. Someone was providing this modification to allow more freedom of mounting with this remote unit.

I have tried a search but to no avail.

Can anyone recall this, and is the modification still available?

Thanks for any help.

Keith

 

Several people have physically removed the LEDs from the KL itself, soldered on extension wires and mounted them somewhere visible (even within the instrument cluster itself), while keeping the less-than-pretty KL box itself hidden. There's no 'official' mod of which I'm aware.

 

Here is the thread you are after. Guy you want is Turbo Steve.
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=322881

 

Hello T'was me!

Just a comment on extending the LEDs...have seen a couple of these "spaghetti" mods, and simply running wires from the PCB to the LEDs strikes me as a nightmare: not only have all the ones I have seen not secured or protected the wires in any way, but they have also used twice as many as required. Knocklinks use a common l+ve to the LEDS, so simply bringing a single +ve and 5 -ves is sufficient, and allows you to choose a decent multicore cable. Additionally, solid cores should NOT be used, as they break (as discovered by Harvey). The best choice is usually line level audio cable.....6-core.

Also, moving the leds, soldering them and then holding them in position with hot-glue really isn't that sufficient, as the connections can work loose inside the hot glue. Leds need to be correctly supported at the lens, and need to be adequately restrained at the legs. Ideally, this means mounting them in a PCB or at least a piece of veroboard.

 

mine works fine, I used alarm cable. No probs so far, still working fine after 6 months



Phil

 

Thanks Guys very much indeed. Thinking cap on.

Keith

 

Turbo Steve

Are you still doing this mod and if so how do we go about this? I am obviously very interested.

Keith

 

Me too