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Upgrading Interior LED Lighting and Driver's Area Overview

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Full Tour of My 1996 Newell Coach With EPIC Racing History! (Full Time RVer)

What happens here

The driver's area features an array of gauges reminiscent of a 1970s Soviet troop transporter, indicating the vintage nature of the coach's controls. A large, approximately 20-inch wide bus-driver style steering wheel is present. The owner points out a 'sick horn' that plays songs and various switches for functionalities like fast idle and battery merge. Above the driver's area, custom RGB LED strip lights have been temporarily laid out. The owner explains that these are currently being tested for placement, and he plans to permanently install and hide the wiring by drilling holes and soldering pieces for a clean, integrated look.

Goal: Install custom RGB LED lighting and tour the driver's console.

Tools and materials

  • Battery Merge Switch — Connecting battery banks
  • Bus Driver Steering Wheel — Operating the vehicle
  • Dashboard Gauges — Monitoring vehicle performance
  • Drill — Creating holes for permanent wiring
  • Fast Idle Switch — Controlling engine idle speed
  • Musical Horn — Playing various tunes
  • RGB LED Strip Lights — Providing ambient lighting throughout the coach
  • Soldering Iron — Connecting LED wiring permanently

What they say

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don't matter to me it's a mid-entry so you got you can go that way or you can go that way state the obvious these two chairs and kind of sit in there and this one the passenger seat it has a seat belt and stuff but it actually spins around so it can do both this is a no slide coach and it has a lot of room you can see kind of here you know there's a good bit of room on the floor you could put an air mattress there if you needed to um that jack knifes out and do a bed up here in the driver's area you got some gauges that look like they came out of like a 1975 soviet uh troop transporter and uh this sick horn we're gonna play with that later but big old bus driver steering wheel it's like freaking 20 inches across or something like that uh you know you get your typical fast idle switch battery merge all that stuff little reading light and that is part of the intercom for the rest of it like whenever you poke that button out there it all rings sconce light things i put rgb leds up in there and you'll kind of see that throughout bear with me here just want to let you know these leds are not like permanently installed i just kind of got them and i laid them out where i thought i would like them and i'm just kind of like giving them a test run to see if i like the way they're illuminated um you know how they're kind of oriented so then i'll go in and like drill holes and wire it up like solder the pieces and i'll do it all right so they're hidden and you can't see them i'm just kind of mocking it up right now yeah i got them laid up through there and through there and so you guys have to shove it through the door because there's no hole there this is where i do all my stuff all my editing and eating i only sit there i never sit over there i don't know why but that's just that's my spot so that's

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