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Technical => Electrical Tech => Topic started by: thunderbird232 on March 07, 2007, 05:11:21 PM

Title: Brighter Dash Light
Post by: thunderbird232 on March 07, 2007, 05:11:21 PM
Is there a better brighter bulbs that works well in place of the standard ones in the dash cluster?

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Title: Brighter Dash Light
Post by: Kitz Kat on March 07, 2007, 06:49:34 PM
The standard are holligon,I put candesant in ,I couldn't tell the difference.
Title: Brighter Dash Light
Post by: Ifixyawata on March 07, 2007, 07:40:39 PM
I'm pretty sure there are 194-style LED's available in focused and diffused beam.
Title: Brighter Dash Light
Post by: Masejoer on March 09, 2007, 02:45:25 PM
http://autolumination.com/194.htm

You'd need to try one of the "SMT Tower" or "4- Star SMT" ones. The bulbs with a single high-flux led panel aren't bright enough (I have a couple blue ones here). Stay away from any red LED'sas the stock cluster lets little to no red light through. Green, white, blue, in that order with identical brightnesses, will be the brightest to dimmest (blue works relatively well, but needs to be ~2x as bright as my single panel LED).

I have a box full of different 37/168 LED's here and will say that a brighter inverted cone LED would work near perfect. I have some greens/whites that ALMOST match incandescent but the beam pattern isn't wide enough.

Camera settings the same in every picture. You can easily guess which are inverted cone, led panel, and incandescent:
(http://home.comcast.net/~seekproj/1.jpg)
(http://home.comcast.net/~seekproj/2.jpg)
(http://home.comcast.net/~seekproj/3.jpg)
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