Jon Clay

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/51513/speedometer.jpg"></center><p>I spent part of the day working on making my own white gauge overlays...I'll let you know how they turn out when I'm done. I got the speedometer done, but not in the car yet...Feel free to download the pictures and print them off for your own use...I printed it with photo paper and it looked pretty good.

DanA100

Let us know how it looks/work on the car....

How are you going to do the lighting part of the conversion? Same bulbs?

paulfern2000

<center><img src="http://homepage.internet.lu/customautocraft/parts/b4_gauges.jpg"></center><p>say did you mean something like this????

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Jon Clay

I'm not sure how to go about it. The old overlays were black, but had a red transparent plastic backing which made the illumination obviously red on the numbers. I don't have the red backing, so its probably just going to be white for now. I think I may try and find some red celophane or something and stick that on the back to keep with the same color scheme.

paulfern, those blue lighting ones looked cool except they will change the lighting scheme of the rest of the car which may look funny, and you have to buy them...two things I'm not interested in.

-Jon

RussB

and is preferred for cockpit instrument illumination. (Ever been on a warship's bridge at night? The only lights there are red. Its instruments are illuminated in red.) These notes are cribbed from various sources:


"The eye has 2 components - cones and rods. Cones give you daylight vision. They are most sensitive to yellow/green, but the spectral response does not vary nearly as much as the rods, which provide your night vision. Rods are monochromatic and are significantly less sensitive to red than blue/yellow, but you are only using your rods after an extended period of
time in darkness.

Estelle Johnson (please@do-not-mail-news.com)"


"Red light is easy on our dark adaptation precisely because our eyes are NOT sensitive to it. More accurately, the retina cells that function in low light (the rods) are essentially blind to red light.

Richard Callwood III htttp://cac.uvi.edu/staff/rc3/ "




". . . the rods (i.e. the most light-sensitive part of our retina) is quite insensitive to red. Thus, by using red light, we affect the dark adaption of the rods the least.

A contracted pupil will widen again within several seconds if it gets dark. But rods need much longer than that to restore a lost dark adaption.

Paul Schlyter, Swedish Amateur Astronomer's Society (SAAF)
Grev Turegatan 40, S-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN"

Adam Mowafy

And a woman in a red dress is hard to resist