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Old 11-15-2005, 02:11 PM
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Re: red led lights for speedometer?

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Red is better at night for your eyes. If you watch many WWII movies you'll notice all the submarines use red lights inside, at least at night. This is so when they surface during the night the crews eyes will adjust to the darkness faster.
Blue is a terrible light for night driving. Blue is a shorter wavelength and will leave after-images because it is stimulating your retinas more (shorter the wavelength the more energy it has.) That is not a good thing at night at all.

I may have to try some of those red LED's. Cool!
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Old 11-15-2005, 10:27 PM
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Re: red led lights for speedometer?

I want all my lights in my car a decent blue. Not a dark blue but not like the Camaro's greenish blue either. Since I have a Trans Am and its red...can it be done? Does it have a red tint on it? If so, how can I get the red tint off?
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Old 11-15-2005, 11:41 PM
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Re: red led lights for speedometer?

i duno about the trans-am gauges, but i know the camaros have a light blue tint on them... and im considering changing mine over to red this weekend, so how to i go about removing it?? and how hard is it to take the dash out?.. also do i have to take the gauge faces off? i know i ask a lot of questions but i like to know what im getitn into before i start lol. anyone have a good guide for this?
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Old 11-16-2005, 12:54 PM
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Re: red led lights for speedometer?

Originally Posted by RacingTiger04
so the best thing to do is buy the normal bulbs and paint them with the glass stainer?..
Nope, you want to buy stained glass bulbs. Painting them will give you the same effect as buying cheap bulbs. Stained bulbs have the pigment in the glass when they make the bulbs.
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Old 11-16-2005, 03:38 PM
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Re: red led lights for speedometer?

what if i change it to white faced gauges will it still be tinted blue?
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Old 11-16-2005, 07:45 PM
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Re: red led lights for speedometer?

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Nope, you want to buy stained glass bulbs. Painting them will give you the same effect as buying cheap bulbs. Stained bulbs have the pigment in the glass when they make the bulbs.
so where can i get those kinds of bulbs? and how many of each will i need 194??/161??
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Old 03-10-2007, 03:46 PM
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With 93-96 camaro gugs do you need to change out your bulb holder if your going with 194 bulbs instead of the stock 161
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How hard is it to put these in?? I really like the look
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Old 03-11-2007, 04:23 AM
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Guys, go to http://www.ledgauges.com for lightbulbs for the dash and other stuff.
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