gauge lights matching

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  1. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

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    how close can I expect to get my new gauges to match the dash's blue hue? You're pretty much limited to bulb covers, right?
     
    #1 Mad Mallard, May 16, 2009
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    I just finished this today after 3 years of trial and error. Numbers and letters are white, Redline and "hot" and "empty" marks on their respective gauges are red, everything else is blue. :)

    [​IMG]
     
    #3 XanRules, May 17, 2009
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    XanRules i would love a write up on this process, im sure others would too...and wagunzpwn also that looks hott!
     
    #4 flat4ever666, May 17, 2009
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    I'm working on it, but I didn't take any photos - I was too busy trying to get the shit done :rofl:
     
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  7. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

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    well, if thats what you're looking for, that is neat. But I'm trying to match new gauges to the stock colour. :)

    nice kenwood, btw. I have the one 2 generations back from it.
     
    #7 Mad Mallard, May 17, 2009
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    Autolumation kept sending me DOA LEDs and were a pita about it, check out Oznium.
     
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    I was just showing you the shade of blue you will get with LEDs.
     
    #9 wagunz_pwn, May 17, 2009
  10. Slowsoul

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    The only thing that I don't like about LEDs is that you can not dim them...
     
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    Oh yes you can :)
     
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    Yeah...permenantly, but not with the dimmer switch.
     
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  13. Mad Mallard

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    yeah, i thought LEDs can only dim by turning on and off rapidly, requiring special types of LEDs for dimmers...
     
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    mine dim with the dimmer switch.
     
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    you can dim leds with resistors. I also don't see why they would not dim with the factory dimmers potentiometer
     
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    mine dim with the dimmer switch also :wiggle:
     
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  17. Mad Mallard

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    excuse me, i'm totally wrong, I believe i'm thinking of CFL...
     
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    You are :)
     
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    I have Greddy gauges and they match perfectly.
     
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  20. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

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    My goal was to have a super integrated clean stock look to what I'm doing.

    The guages I've got are full sweep, black background, orange need, minimalist font with a slight italics.

    Those LED mods are neato, but I'm just trying to get the new gauges to match the stock wrx blue lights. :)
     
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  21. wagunz_pwn

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    where on your wrx do you have stock blue lights?
     
    #21 wagunz_pwn, May 18, 2009
  22. Slowsoul

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    Well slap me silly...I thought that I researched this pretty throughly before I decided to sell my prosport guages...because those fuckers were WAY too bright! I thought that LEDs were either on or off.

    Maybe this deserves a seperate thread, would someone care to explain?

    Update: Nevermind, here is my original thread discussing the issue...there is plenty of explination in it. http://www.wrxatlanta.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18458
     
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  23. nsvwrx

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    haha, voltage makes all the diff.
     
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  24. Mad Mallard

    Mad Mallard the mad mallard

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    I call the gauge lights blue because they're not green like my old Marantz amp or like an old muscle car gauge cluster. ;p
     
    #24 Mad Mallard, May 19, 2009
  25. Jake

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    They're green for everyone elses intents and purposes. Lol

    It can be done. My old subie has cheaper gauges that match the stock green nicely
     
    #25 Jake, May 19, 2009
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    They're green...but, the bulb condoms are blue-ish if not blue. The bulbs look yellow with them off. I might have a couple lying around you could test with.
     
    #26 wagunz_pwn, May 20, 2009
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    I'll change your cluster color for you ;D
     
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  28. Mad Mallard

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    cool. bezel and gauge delivered today. will play when I get home. :}
     
    #28 Mad Mallard, May 20, 2009
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