Gauge cluster needles not bright?

[88CRX]

I'd like to figure out how to do it on my own, rather than spend $40 on some kit like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2449804118


any ideas?

[EK 2.0]

Just an idea...but maybe an LED of some sort...or some way to project light "thru" the needles...or maybe they are painted with a black light paint or something...

I wish you could just up and ask him, cause it is something I am kinda interested in now...But those are my ideas...

[C_CRX]

My semi-educated guess is UV (Ultraviolet) LED lights to replace the current cluster lights and some kind of UV-sensitive paint on the needles. HTH

[Zero102]

C_CRX I would say you are right on. It looks exactly like UV led's and UV sensitive paint.
I have the same effect in my car by accident.
I used blue LED's, many of them emit well into the UV spectrum, causes my needles and numbers to glow, along with everything being lit in blue. It's pretty cool.

[88CRX]

hmmmm ..... so where would i get this stuff?

[shadowz]

This is what it is, paint the bezel around the faces white, use a mini neon and tuck it at the top of the cluster where you cant see it anymore, all my buddies did this cause their clusters burnt out.

[EK 2.0]

88CRX if you ar attempting this please let me know as I will get you to try to get my gauges to do that as well man...Thanks


Arif

[Zero102]

Get a few UV led's from Active Components or MRO Electronics, and some glow in the dark paint, or at least some neon-orange paint (make sure it glows under UV first)
The neon should work as well, but I wonder about how it would look?