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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2015, 10:30:47 am »
Quote from: Low87 on September 22, 2011, 02:48:58 pm
...I wound up using 6 bright white for the instrument lighting, 4 amber for the warn lights, and 2 green for the signal indicators.  I ordered the brightest applicable bulb for each, which is good except for the indicator bulbs.  Those things are so bright they almost give me a headache at long stoplights....
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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2015, 11:31:16 am »
Thanks BD, I feel like a 🐴 now...
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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2015, 09:14:30 am »
on the back of this one i count 12 possible spots

but i know there could be a couple more with other options. so i would think 15
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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2015, 09:50:38 am »
Actually if you clean all the connections on the circuit board including the plug end that plugs in to the cluster
Clean the cluster lens, the standard bulbs are plenty bright.



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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2015, 10:42:00 am »
A portion of the shell is broken just where the socket twists in.  Not enough material for JB weld to hold.  I tried searching for this but my google-fu is weak this morning

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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2015, 11:21:40 pm »
Can you use your dimmer on them. I did blue ones on my pickup and they turned out to be perfect but they dont dim. White looks really good. I wonder how it would look with white gauge overlays


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Re: LED instrument lights
« Reply #21 on: October 02, 2015, 03:37:23 am »
Quote from: Jakethesnake73 on September 30, 2015, 11:21:40 pm
Can you use your dimmer on them. I did blue ones on my pickup and they turned out to be perfect but they dont dim. White looks really good. I wonder how it would look with white gauge overlays


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I'm gonna do the white overlays myself and I'm interested to know how different it would look. I think the white faces alone would show up better in the dark.
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