does anyone have pics of a gauge with white face but did not change the LEDs on it at night..i just want to know how it looks like, i'm planning just to put the overlay gauge and not change the LEDs...
Are the LEDs illuminating from behind the gauges and if you put on an overlay over the gauges do the lines and lettering need to be cut out, like so the light shows thru. Somebody explain for me. I'm realizing that I don't know how this works. Thanks
Originally posted by mellowyellow: Are the LEDs illuminating from behind the gauges and if you put on an overlay over the gauges do the lines and lettering need to be cut out, like so the light shows thru. Somebody explain for me. I'm realizing that I don't know how this works. Thanks
Yes.. LEDs illuminate throught translucent paint on the gauges.. If you get like indiglo gauge... it just covers up the whole gauge... Only the needle will glow in color of the LED I recomand getting reverse indiglo... with red led... Letter and line would be light up by indiglo gauge...
Thanks for the info! After I left my above message I found the post by Satoshi about using OHP paper and his printer. Seems to be a number of ways to change the gauge apperance. I think I would go with the easiest method.
You can put the new (not-fluorescent) gauge face with a cut on top of the old one without removing old one. But the result will not be satisfactory, because it will be much darker.. Removing the old face is not so difficult as you think.
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