Originally Posted by ElectroBoy

Thanks for this great idea. I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Here are a few of my tweaks to your design.

For the switch I first tried to devise a way to use a mechanical limit switch but couldn’t find a clean way to do it. So I took apart an old Leviton household power switch, the illuminated kind that used a small drum of mercury for silent operation, and soldered leads to it. I had to cut out a little of the plastic recess in the console lid to get it to fit snuggly. It’s kind of a heavy item so I put some foam under it and glued it all to keep it in place.

The LED I used was a cool white 1W 6mm Oznium bolt, installed offset from the center of the lid. I didn’t want a lot of light to shine out while driving at night, and this LED puts out enough to nicely light up the interior of the console box.

I installed a connector in the power leads for easy removal of the lid for any service or future mods.

When routing the power cord and taping it over the hinge bracket edge I noticed that if was a tight fit, so I enlarged the receiver hole with a round file.

To keep the power cord from flexing too much I taped up an edge to create a service loop to minimize wire bending.

It’s working well, let there be light!