Poll: LED gauges/needles combo

[95'GSX-rated]

I've been hovering on the idea of making my own LED gauge cluster. While doing this project, I hit a little road bump that hopefully I can get some feedback on this color combo. My gauges are green, but I can't decide what I want to do with the needles...I would like to do purple, because it's a complementary color, but orange and red would look sweet as well. So if i could get a decent amount of feedback, it would help me out tremendously.

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[stevetalon]

dude thats a hard one but i would probably go with orange or red.

 

[stevestevesteve]

keep it stock looking bro.

 

[deerhunter0881]

I like the red or purple.Can you do that with 1g cars what do you have to do take the old bulbs out and just replace with leds????

 

[stevetalon]

do you need to solder in resistors?

 

[95'GSX-rated]

yes you can do this to a 1g cluster. it really depends on how electrically inclined you are. I've seen people on this forum take the stock bulbs and rig LEDs in them by just soldering small LEDs together and then placing them in the bulb housing and it worked perfectly fine. Others like myself just followed the write ups and just used LED strips and found the wiring schematic for the cluster to find which bulb connections were positive and negative and then solder the wiring directly to the board. Try searching around on the forum for it, I was just looking at a thread that someone used a 1g cluster, but I forgot the name of the particular thread.

 

[deerhunter0881]

ok thanks I have white face gauges for a while need a change

 

[AndrewD5418]

I think amber with a red needle would look nice.

 

[Blurred Talon]

Red.

 

[juanpac0]

Purple.

 

[GSXrestomod]

I did my 1g gauges with bright white LEDs and white needles, then I went through and swapped in white LEDs in all my switches/buttons on the dash. It looks WAAAYY better than stock. I love it!

 

[azdave]

Not diggin' the green look but but red needles if you must.

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[Two4 Stroke Her]

i would say orange... stock subaru gauges have green and orange combo and that works... the purple would be too much... reminds me of the joker

 

[95'GSX-rated]

Well the only reason why I chose green is that my car is colored a dark shade of viridian with a black and grey interior. The green gauge lights goes well with it. Here's my door that I painted up a while ago..

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As for the joker comment, I agree partially. I'm taking it from an artist's perspective, so it's a matter of color theories. I didn't even think of the joker's color scheme when looking for the other color for the needles. I have a green/orange combo cluster in my celica, but I dunno, I like it, but I just like to do things that are a little unique, thus is my dilemma, for me it's a matter of orange or purple, pointing towards purple...I don't think the purple will be too much only because the way that it creates a more harmonious blend of color vs the orange where the orange becomes dominant over the green. I'm just about to buy both a set of orange and purple LEDs and just tiral and error them.

 

[Fotowntalon]

You should write a tutorial on how to do that, looks very nice.

 

[azdave]

You should write a tutorial on how to do that, looks very nice.

Smokey says:

Only YOU can prevent redundancy.

2G Gauge Cluster LED project

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[mitsu93gsx]

I just did the same thing to a 1g here is the site were you can buy plug and play leds..
https://www.superbrightleds.com

 

[TheFlashDSM]

Not diggin' the green look but but red needles if you must.

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omfg this is amazing im doing this next week =)

 

[dsmsavage]

Lol ^ Has something been done here... or isn't that the factory look? ^

 

[spyderdrifter]

^^^ Not factory^^^ They all came with the orange glow regardless of black or white faces.

 

[Tanro]

Smokey says:

Only YOU can prevent redundancy.

2G Gauge Cluster LED project

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That is a bit out of date. Now you can get wedge base bulbs, and slightly sand the back of the gauge faces.

You dont have to cutting and soldering and running strings. I had the wedge base bulbs in my last 2g. Lit up the cluster, hvac, and all switches nicely. Will edit with pics of it.

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Please note that in person, the hot and dim spots aren't so apparent. Nor is the glare. Hard to take pictures of light with a 5 year old digital camera.