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Is the led strip infront or behind the Perspex cover?
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Any idea why the cluster ceiling is Light Turquoise as opposed to White? Does it Matter? Do you think that coloration effects the color? I know that with Standard incandescent bulbs in a backlit application, Green characters use a turquoise Filter so it appears GREEN when the light mixes. It's the old yellow & blue makes Green standard.
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2 things you can do. You can paint it white or if you don't want to do anything permanent, you can put a piece of sheet plastic in with double sided tape. Sheet plastic can be found at any good hobby store and it's molded in white.
I didn't do anything to mine, but it was a very light shade of turquoise. I just thought it was aging and it was still almost white.
I would suggest you place the cover in place and test them. You will probably find the lights are so intense that the color of the box will not matter very much.
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Michael said he forgot to take a picture of the LEDs in place. I just did this mod and am very pleased. I'm still figuring out all the different settings with the controller however.... here is a pic.
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Nice work Michael! I am going to try this same thing, but plan on using a strip of UV LEDs . . .
Thinking that I will probably keep the regular Incandescent's or LEDs for the odometer illumination.
Will post here if I can get something working that illuminates everything properly.
This is what I have with just replacing the incandescent illumination bulbs with UV, and it is not nearly bright enough:
BlackLight Instrument Cluster.jpg
Michael Babb
Has anyone tried UV and RGB LEDs? RGB's for the illumination, UV for the glow.
Nick
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I am waiting for a nice solution from Dave one day.....
Jan
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