Gauge LED indicator light

Hey Guys,

So I'm changing around my gauges and need some help. I guess I should also start by saying this is for a cb350. I'm losing the tachometer and just keeping the speedo. I found an image of a guys bike with a custom mount to hold in the speedo. ex:



Its very nice and super clean. I bent the rod form and am close to building the mount to hold the speedo, but after taking the tac off I realized I still would like to have indicator lights for the neutral, high and low beams. I've found on DIME CITY this mount. ex:



Which I can fabricate the mount myself. But I have no idea where to get the LED's that would sit in the mount, as well as if I would need to add a ballast to run the three little lights? I've seen some LED's and mounts sold at a place like Radio Shack, but I'm not sure that would be the right place. Any input on the subject would be great appreciated.

-Cheers

I made up some for my bike a while ago and spoke a little about it in a copuple of videos from my build. Hope there's some help in there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlS63UR85iE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ToplXQfN0k

You rock brother.

You can get LED's that work between 10~14v, may have to search around a bit. I found some 12v ones local

Hey Guys,

Did some searching in the local radio shack and online and I found a very helpful site that will calculate the restrictor that you would need to instal custom LED's.

http://led.linear1.org/1led.wiz

Very easy and very helpful.

Nice one.

Just a quick shot of my new working neutral light... or high beam light.

I pick up most of my stuff from www.superbrightleds.com
They have direct 12v and 6v replacements for all common connector styles.

If you want to stick with component LEDs, most run at right around 3v, so you can safely run four of them in series without need for a resistor. If you only want to run a single component LED, you can put together a simple linear voltage regulator using an LM317T. They're usually under a dollar. Google LM317T for a pinout.