I changed my gauges to 194 Blue LED's now the needles arent lighting up?? Where do they get there power from?

 

Do you have stock guage faces? Also, do you have any pics? Sorry I couldn't answer your question, but I've always wanted to keep my black guage face in my I30 and have blue light come out instead of an off white light. Was never sure if it was possible to do or not. *shruggs shoulders*

 

i'm not sure about 1998's, but on my 1997 its the same bulb. i put blue led's and the gauges and needles are both blue.


see

 

Looks really good bro. I was actually thinking about doing this cause i have not seen any gauges that look better then the stock ones. But i have a 98 so it may be different then yours. Any ideas?

 

Wowww. That came out hot. That's exactly what I was talkin bout. What type of Blue LED bulb did you use and how many were needed? Thanks alot for the pic.

 

the se's from 97-99 have red (amber/orange) needles. Blue will not go through so the needles wont light up. either change the needles or the bulbs or live with it.

 

this is what araffio told me a while back:

"98-99 gauge clusters do not use 194 wedge bulbs in the gauge cluster, we have much smaller wedge bulbs which are hard to find. It's possible to solder in 194 bulbs to ours though."

 

ah thats good to know. i'm glad i got the SE cluster from a 1995 then. i had no idea, it just happened to be the one i found.

 

hey thanks!


http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...gi?product=CAR

i used the WLED-6 LED bulb. it's the first 194 type bulb on the page. there are 5 of them total in the cluster.

 

Just to double-check and make sure before I start ordering, it's this one correct:

T13-B6 Blue LED bulb 12VDC Blue 6-LED Wedge Base bulb measure 1 1/8 long by 1/2 inch maximum diameter (194/168 type)

 

Maybe i need brighter bulbs than the ones i have, I got them from superbrightleds also, but I got WLED-B

 

no this is the one i have.

WLED-6 LED bulb
12 VDC 6-LED Wedge Base bulb (194/168 type)
Our brightest bulb of this type


that one will work too, but they told me that this one is brighter.

 

i should note that i actually had problems with the first batch of them that i ordered. some of the led's stopped working, but some still worked. on the same bulb even. like, four of the six led's on the bulb would work. this happened after like three weeks. but, i should also note that they took care of it very fast. i called them and told them what happened, and they sent me a new set asap!

at first i had a problem with the new ones too, but i just had to bend the metal contact wire over a bit. been working great so far!

 

Oh ok, I found it now. I was just lookin at the blue colored base LEDs, so I skipped over that thinkin it was a white LED, not knowing it was actually 4 different color types to choose from. Thanks again man. I appreciate it.

 

don't forget about the hot spots too. just so your not surprised the first time you turn them on. i was. you get used to it though. if you look at the pic you can see them. they are pretty bright. i think it's worth it though.

 

Is that them on the 30, 100, 2.5 and 7? To me, if that IS them they don't look too bad. Is it extremely bright in person or just a little bit of a noticeable difference? But yeah, either way, regardless it still looks hot. LoL, no pun intended.

 

it's fairly noticeable. nothing extreme. like i said, though, well worth the look.

 

you can always sand the leds to make the beam pattern/viewing angle wider.

 

have you done that yourself?

btw, what type of midpipe do you have on your intake?

 

I can see the hotspots, but do they illuminate the needles and odometer window evenly?

I have reverse indiglos in there right now, awesome but I need a brighter, and even source for just my needles and odometer window (1995 SE).

 

the blue LED setup looks tight, i might just have to cop your style.

 

how many LED's do you need to do this setup? that's just dope.

 

Guttermouf5150, are you able to dim the cluster still, or are the led's at the same luminosity all the time?

 

Now I know what I'll be ordering tomorrow...

Quick question, I have a '96 GLE, how many of these LED bulbs do I need for the entire cluster? Stupid me when I had the damn thing out on the table the other night I never counted the amount of bulbs in there.

 

you need 5 of the led bulbs, and yea they do dim from the dimmer switch.

oh yeah and i can see the odometer just fine. and as you can see, the needles light up just fine too.

i was driving tonight, and i noticed that they aren't quite as bright as they look in that pic. they are bright, just that they look a little brighter in that picture.

 

looks sweet. i was wanting to do this bad. now i think i will will the same bulbs work for a 95-96 se cluster? thanks.

-rafal

 

yeah i have a cluster from a '95 in my car

 

Guttermouf5150 i have a custom made midpipe...just a piece of intake tubing left over from a friend and 2 nipple/barb thingies from homedepot. To finish it off a breather filter and Arospeed coupling and reducer.

I have sanded the leds, did it for my climate control. No hot spots at all.

 

how much sanding is involved? just a little off the tip? or...

 

yea just ruff it up

 

My fault Guttermouf5150. I forgot that the White SE Gauges are the same style as the regular Stock Black ones. This whole time I thought you had black ones and put the Blue LED's in. Either way it looks hot, but I want to keep my stock gauges, but still have Blue LED's. Would this work or no? Has anybody tried this or have this?

 

well im sure they are not all that different looking. but no, i have never seen with the black gauges.