I took out my reverse indiglo gauges. I got tired of them. A bit too flashy for me. Anyway, I left the blue LED's in. Here'a pic of how they look on the factory gauge cluster. As you can see, maybe because they're LED's, the light tend to concentrate more on one spot. Yes, a bit odd, but they'll have to do.

http://cumalot.homestead.com/files/DCP_0004_1.JPG

 

thats looks pretty good....its just that the light concentrates on one spot is bothering me

 

Yep ... that's what my cluster looked like ... except red.

I got rid of the LEDs after one of them blew and put in all orange regular 194s ... liked that a whole lot better.

 

Cumalot

You're using the extra-bright 4-LED correct?

I'm using the 1-LED and it comes out perfect, no hot spots like what you have in the pic.

The 1-LED has an inverted cone tip to disperse the light much like a regular bulb ... does a pretty good job, credit to multiplexor, he sent me some pics and I got them based on his pics. Just put them in yesterday.

 

I have all red 194's. It's a nice deep, even red...

 

Anybody have pic of 194 LED white bulb in an SE gauage cluster. If not can somebody reccomend a white bulb that will look good, bright and clean.

thanks

 

that looks cool i want to do the same thing too. i have black guages also. hoow hard is it and what bulbs you use? i dunno it looks kinda cool concentrating on one spot it looks "racy"

 

No ... it just looks iregula ...

 

Yes, I'm using the 4-LED ones. I got the 1-LED's too, but it seem a bit dimmer than the 4-LED ones.

 

Dimmer yes, hot spots no.

I've been staring at my gauges for a while, the lower right of the speedo (where it tops out) is just slightly dimmer than the rest but very very very very slightly.

Did I say very slighty?

It's bright enough with the dimmer control turned all the way up, so I prefer uniformity.

 

The problem is I only got two of the 1-LED bulbs, not enough. So these will have to do for now.

 

It will have to do then.

 

What LEDs are known to last longer? Which brands are known to SUCK? Also...

If I want to try to replicale the indigo color of VW gauges, can I do 2 red and 2 blue leds, or will it look striped? Thanks...

 

I'd like to see those pics if you remember where you saw it.

 

Are you talking about the "Euro Reverse indiglo" guages? If so, you looking to sell em?

 

I don't have a pic available right now...but I have all white 194 size LED bulbs behind my SE gauge cluster...and as a matter of fact it emits a light bluish color at night...not white what i thought it was going to be. Peculiar...maybe someone can explain the physics on this?
Later,

Jeremiah
1995 Maxima SE

 

hmm he might be talking about these pics

http://www.geocities.com/multiplexor_2000/images.html

This is the led i installed:

http://www.geocities.com/multiplexor...ma/BigLeds.htm

Note:
I tried these in the door light that turns on when you open the door.......... doesn't look that good i find.

 

I don't know if its just your pic, but that led looks huge!

 

It's the same size as the 194 bulbs...

 

Those are the pics I got from multiplexor (credit to him again).

 

You're using the amber/orange 194 bulbs now? Does it look like the BMW guage color? I was thinking of going with red 194s, but I was afriad that I would get a pinkish color. Any thoughts?

And OT: Who's that girl in your sig pic...snap a shot of your girl by surprise?

 

Hey I was wondering if it is hard to do, and where can I buy the 194?

 

Albertt ... well ... I have no Maxima right now, but when I did have it, it had orange/amber 194s in ther gauges yes.

It's not as bright as the BMW's, but it was somewhat close. You should know: different companies have different sucess in making bulbs look good. I some cheap orange bulbs and while they were orange, they weren't "orange enough".

I'm sure you can find some deep oranged colored bulbs out there.

Don't have pics, sorry. I always meant to take pics, but never got around to it.

My red 194s turned purple after a while.

And the girl is just some internet girl's picture I stole from another website. And no I don't know the website.

 

Extremely easy to change the gauge bulbs, granted your car is a 95-96:

http://www.geocities.com/amixam69/nissan/dash/

And you can buy 194s almost anywhere. Depends on what you want though. Do a search, it's been talked about plenty of times before.

 

are there any write ups for a 98? i want these also

 

It will look striped. One bulb illuminates the fuel meter, there are 2 for the speedometer (one for the left half and one for the right), one for the left half of the tachometer and one more for both the right half of the tachometer and the temp. guage.



I have the blue single-LED 194s from autodynamic, and they look pretty good. A tiny bit dim, but not an issue for me at all. I was afraid to get the brighter 4-LED package because of the hotspots, and now I'm glad I didn't (they are more expensive, too).

My light is also a tiny bit dimmer between where it says 120mph and 140mph... I think that's just how the light diffusing plastic is inside the cluster. A little annoying, but hardly noticeable

 

so tight

 

good i dont know what that website is either hehehe... nikky is hot hot

 

Is it hard to see the Blue LED?

 

do these leds come any smaller. if so do you know the size/number of the led? where to purchase? the bulbs in my cluster do not have 194 they are smaller kinda look like a MINI 194.

 

hmm i'm not sure, i found the autodynamic.com link here, a while back...

 

Where can i get those 1-LEDs from? I want to put the blue LEDs for my dash but I dont' want those hot spots that the 4-LEDs bring, any sites? Info? Thanks

 

hmm..... :looksaround: see post above. Link contained therein.