Stunt Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Im thinking of retrofitting LED's in the stock oem gauges. Has anyone attempted to do this task? Pics if available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunt Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 Nevermind I found the thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOTHALOSISM Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Yeah I have to do the same but wire it up since my rheostat thing went out and is not getting power to the gauge lights. (easy enough to do) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmanj87 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Nevermind I found the thread Link to the post I'm curious to see how it's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/63732-led-gauge-and-interior-lighting-comparisons/ http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/48724-gauge-light-led-experiment-wpics/ took 3 minutes on google man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurbycar32 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 I did this, hated it and put regular bulbs back in. Here's the part that nobody talks about: LED lighting only emits a very narrow color spectrum which creates 2 problems: 1. LED lights are only one color and light filters dont work on them. For example lets say you just buy a bunch of white LED's to use on your green filtered gauges blue filtered high beam indicator and yellow blinker indicators, everything will be white even with the plastic lenses that are supposed to change the color. I countered this by buying green illumination LED's, blue for the high beam indicators, red for emergency, yellow and orange for the blinkers (tried both). I got everything to be the right color but even with the brightest LED's I find the gauges weren't as bright as regular bulbs which brought me to the second problem: LED light doesn't reflect well and all of the gauges are lit with reflection. Brighter LED's only made a tiny difference because only a small amount of light would reflect off of the white painted walls of the inside of the gauges. If these were backlit gauges (meaning the light came thru the back of the gauge face and not around to the front) i think LED's would be great. I have an extra clock lying around that i am experimenting with lighting using an electro illumination panel (think timex indiglo). Its the right color and i think it would be bright enough but those panels are ignited with 120v AC so i would need to install a circuit to power the unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 My old write-up and pictures: http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/59693-dash-light-led-conversion-write-up/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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