On Wednesday 20 June 2001 05:52, you wrote: > Yep, I replaced all of the color filters with my new blue ones. The blue on > the transparency is very very deep blue, but when the light shines through > them they're barely noticable. Maybe the one on the top got twisted or > something after I glued the housing back together. I'd rather not pull it > all back apart but I suppose I will sometime to check it out, maybe this > weekend if I get a chance. It was very straight forward to do but I don't
It's not that easy to make good blue gauge lights. I guess it's because the stock bulbs, being regular incadescent bulbs, put out most of their light in the yellow part of the spectrum, and very little at the blue end. That's OK with the stock green filter, and fine with a red filter, but too dim when you use a deep blue one. I ended up using four bright white LEDs and a blue filter for my cluster -- two LEDs in the stock positions, and two more mounted in the white plastic housing, pointed straight at the gauges. And two more AlInGaP (= very bright!) red LEDs for the clock backlight. Cheers, Oleg _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
