So the mood lighting is great and all, but I'm on a mission.
1) increase the intensity
2) run the fiber optics through the dash so that all lights are the same color.

anyone have any tips, or links? I'm very mechanically inclined, but don't know much about working with this lighting. I think it runs along ribbon cable much like what you would use in a PC to light up your computer tower.

Any help?

 

Well i can tell you this.

Each area where there is Mood Lighting there is a separate LED module. There is no real fiberoptics for this. I.E each b pillar door handle, door release handle and each of the two in the roof are different modules.

Each module consists of two LEDs of different colors and by appling different voltages to each is how the different colors are made.

As for making them brighter any extra voltgae to do so will butn out the LEDs. Also this voltage is generated by the footwell module and it can not be adjusted.

 

Perhaps there is a way to decide on the ONE color you want, then just swap out the LED`s to a couple brighter ones that hopefully can use teh voltage thats supplied .. maybe.

 

I have not tested the voltage at the plugs where they connect to each but would expect it to be a good voltage for any LED but i am not 100% sure.

As for the mood lighting being brighter I think it would be to distracting IMHO.

I have though decided on the mood lighting always being blue in my car and have added blue LED's to the front cup holders, each dash vent. Eventually I want to add then on the c-pillars at the top and also but a strip along the headliner at the rear where the barn doors open on my clubman.

I will see it i can figure out the voltage sequence this weekend.

 

oh, yeah, that would be easiest, but not for mood lighting. I want to make the mood lighting switch change the dash.

 

Definately would nto want the mood lighting to be really super bright White or anything. but i find that the OEM lighting is so faint i can barely see it in the middle of the night. something just a little brighter would have been nice. My need for brighter interior lights brought me here.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...n-our-r56.html.

wich is GREAT, and it dwarfs the mood lighting.
i think the mood lighting needs to be somewhere between what it is now, and the magnatude available in the lighting kits above.

 

ah mood lighting changing the dash! that would be alot of work.... would probablt have to change out all the LED clusters behind the dash and somehow run them up to that switch. would be sweet tho.

 

Do you have pictures of that? I always leave mine on blue too.

 

And here I consider them worse than useless. The ones up top reflect in the mirror at night. Guess I am old and like function over fashion. I intend to disconnect mine.

 

For those that are saying theirs are not bright enough. I am not sure if you have realised but they dim with the dash lights. I have found on ours when you have the dash lights set dim you can hardly see the mood lights. I might be stating the obvious but some may not have realised.

 

Yeah, I crank mine all the way up. I actually don't want my dash any brighter, but would like the mood lighting bumped up to a similar intensity.