Has anyone tried blacklight LED in their gauges?

[sanityfree]

How does that work?

[octane]

Not sure, but it would look really sweet at night with your flourescent gel seat!!

[sanityfree]

bite me, i'm serious. :nana:

[octane]

bite me, i'm serious. :nana:

[sanityfree]

:lol:

aw, don't cry...

[JeffD]

actually I did.  And it is awesome.  check out.

http://electrovw.tripod.com  under gauges.

[fuzzymemory]

would it have been easier to use a replacement bulb that was colored one way or another?

[Argon5W]

Blacklights work because they have high levels of emitted UV.  You can't get UV from an LED.  Otherwise I would have a much less expensive laser setup.

[richard]

Well, I can't tell you for certain as I'm not an expert, but...  I purchased a UV LED that would work as a backlight insert, and it *looks* like it's UV.  again, it's hard to say for certain, since I haven't tried it anywhere where anything was around that would glow.

[richard]

oh, and you can get LEDs that just fit in (no need to disassemble anything).  details are here

[jangofett]

I would like to put some new colored lights in my instrument panel as well. I went to Superbrightleds.com and their are a bunch there. Will any of the 194 types work. There is one UV one on there that says non-polarized? Sorry everyone, I don't know a thing about electricity. If anyone could point me to the right ones I would appreciate it. I would like either blue or the UV colors.

[JeffD]

Sorry I read "backlight"  Not BLACKLIGHT.

My mistake

[Argon5W]

Sorry about that.  The UV LEDs have a die in them that is light reacitve and emits the UV.  That should work well if you can package it inside the case.

Richard

[jangofett]

I ordered my bulbs from the superbrightled site. Hope I got the right ones. I actually ordered a few different types. I got the 6 LED blue bulbs and then the 4 LED UV and then the single bulb LED UV's all 194 size. I hope the multiple bulbs are not too bright, that's why I went ahead and got a couple single bulbs also just in case.

[sanityfree]

let me know how the UV bulbs work. i'm trying to find some 4-LED blues around here. i'd rather spend $10 to buy them from autozone than spend $5.18 on bulbs and $5.00 on S&H...

[richard]

I have LED backlights...  not using the UV one, but I have other colors in my bike.

Multiple-LED is not too bright, in fact I'd suggest it.

[jangofett]

I'll let you all know how it goes when I get them in. I am fixing to take the meters out. Don't know for sure how. I assume that the meters will pull out of the black case once I take everything loose. If anybody has any tips let me know. It does not appear to be real difficult. Once the bulbs get here, I want to have everything ready to go in.

[jangofett]

Got everything ready now for when the bulbs come in. I had a few extra steps to get the instruments out. My suburban mach. bars ride real close to the faces of my instruments so I had to take the bars loose a little. Other than that, no problems. I replaced my bright light indicator with one of the bulbs from the instruments because it was blown. When the bulbs get here, I will be ready.

[jangofett]

I stopped by Oreilly Auto Parts tonite while me and the wife were out eating. They had a pair of 194 red LED's. I couldn't resist so I picked them up. I threw them in when I got home. They look cool as hell but they could stand to be a little brighter. I think the multiple bulb LEDS I have ordered will be better but these still look good. So, for those of you not wanting to order them, go to Oreilly's. I called Auto Zone and a bunch of other places today and they did not have them. The name brand of these bulbs are APC and the part # is 50.4071.b

[richard]

Incidently, When I installed mine, I noticed that the multi-LED lights were longer than the normal ones, and so I didn't push them all the way in, noticing that it seemed to be brighter.

Don't do this.  it's a stupid idea.

Don't get me wrong, it seemed to be a good idea at first, but it doesn't distribute the light completely, so it doesn't really work, and so now I need to get around to taking my speedo back off.   :guns:  :x