Reverse glow gauges!
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Reverse glow gauges!
Hey I finally got my reverse glow gauges from procarparts off ebay. I followed the DIY from hzm82 and here's the link. https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...luster+removal
It was pretty easy to do but you better believe I was scared when I was putting the gauges around the needle. After I was done I went to fill my gas tank up and rode around checking everything. I have the pioneer that tells you how fast your going so I compared that. Everything works. Damn.. I feel like I accomplished something lol
Almost forgot a pic of it.
It was pretty easy to do but you better believe I was scared when I was putting the gauges around the needle. After I was done I went to fill my gas tank up and rode around checking everything. I have the pioneer that tells you how fast your going so I compared that. Everything works. Damn.. I feel like I accomplished something lol
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Ive got the awesome ones from the old group buy. If i could ever find a ballast for them to make them work again id let them go for a great price.
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
Ive got the awesome ones from the old group buy. If i could ever find a ballast for them to make them work again id let them go for a great price.
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Originally Posted by dreem1er
yo kris do you have any pics of those gauges......i have a set of reverse glow gauges that i bought a while ago but the front face where the needle goes got cracked and it lights up brighter where the crack is....but maybe the transformer i have works on it......
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these allow you to change the back color of the gauges -- to the indiglo that is shown from the ebay ones to a very nice blue. the GB gauges do not have light in the middle. i have pictures, somwhere...
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Sorry for the blurry pics.
Also had it set up so that only the needles lit up
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Also had it set up so that only the needles lit up
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I had them for a while and they worked and looked nice. My only probelm was they kept coming up from the factory gauge and made my needles stick. Sometimes it was the speed, other times the gas, and once and a while it was the tach.
After taking it apart numerous times and even using super glue to hold them down I got sick of the hassle and got some TL S gauges and called it a day. I think I might have found replacement LED bulbs in various colors that will be direct drop in for the cluster. I have to check w/ a friend of mine in the next few days. When I know I'll make a general post for everyone. Should be much easier to mod the dash for those of us who don't know how to wire LEDS...
After taking it apart numerous times and even using super glue to hold them down I got sick of the hassle and got some TL S gauges and called it a day. I think I might have found replacement LED bulbs in various colors that will be direct drop in for the cluster. I have to check w/ a friend of mine in the next few days. When I know I'll make a general post for everyone. Should be much easier to mod the dash for those of us who don't know how to wire LEDS...
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
Ive got the awesome ones from the old group buy. If i could ever find a ballast for them to make them work again id let them go for a great price.
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i have the same ones fro procarparts
i love em
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Originally Posted by SwampGas
What kind of ballast does it use? Do you have the tech specs?
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Originally Posted by ATL_nokio
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
I have no idea, there is no info on the ballast. I tried buying different types of glo gauges to see if i could use their ballast and they werea ll a no go ![Frown](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif)
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If you can get the thing open, you could repair that ballast.
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Originally Posted by SwampGas
Do you know the type of bulbs? Building a ballast is easy...the pain in the neck part is getting the windings correct in the high voltage transformer. Just need to know the operating voltage and the striking voltage.
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If you can get the thing open, you could repair that ballast.
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
Bulbs
there are no bulbs. Its the indaglo gauges.
All i know is there is no writing or any thing on the ballast.
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Put 100-200 volts on it with a safety of like 5-10mA and see if it lights up
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Originally Posted by SwampGas
Ahhhh I see. That makes it even easier. It requires no current limiting.
Put 100-200 volts on it with a safety of like 5-10mA and see if it lights up![Thumbs Up](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
Put 100-200 volts on it with a safety of like 5-10mA and see if it lights up
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Originally Posted by dreem1er
a kris i want dibs if you ever fix em or if the transformer i have works on it.....i have a set that i bought off of ebay.....the ones that came before those new ones like the one i posted previously........
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
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None of the ballasts i tried will work. They are all 4 wire. The ones i have are 5 wire (for the controller) these gauges have alot of control over them. the whole thing is completely adjustable (as seen by the pics)
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
None of the ballasts i tried will work. They are all 4 wire. The ones i have are 5 wire (for the controller) these gauges have alot of control over them. the whole thing is completely adjustable (as seen by the pics)
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Originally Posted by dreem1er
a lokee99 are these the ones you got.....its hard to tell from the daytime pic
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Theswe are not the sme ones that lokee got. These ones are like 10 bucks off ebay and are from jdm somethin. I looked at these and didn't like them so I got the ones from procarparts.
The ones from procarparts have red on the tach the "jdm" brand ones don't as seen in the pic.
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Originally Posted by SwampGas
Ha....that's my look when you talk about rebuilding transmissions and swapping engines
If you can find the right pair of wires, stick a variac on it and raise the voltage until they light up. Then you can build your own ballast.
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If you can find the right pair of wires, stick a variac on it and raise the voltage until they light up. Then you can build your own ballast.
Yea me and mechanical are good buddies. Me and electrical arent so good. Im not afraid to try stuff, and i have a limited knowledge of some things and can do some stuff, but when it comes to resistors and stuff i still havent fingered that stuff out yet
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Originally Posted by dreem1er
what about using the internals off the one i have.......?........
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Originally Posted by MurkyRiversTL
Theswe are not the sme ones that lokee got. These ones are like 10 bucks off ebay and are from jdm somethin. I looked at these and didn't like them so I got the ones from procarparts.
The ones from procarparts have red on the tach the "jdm" brand ones don't as seen in the pic.
The ones from procarparts have red on the tach the "jdm" brand ones don't as seen in the pic.
Originally Posted by dreem1er
a lokee99 are these the ones you got.....its hard to tell from the daytime pic
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Originally Posted by lokee99
Yea those are it. I wouldn't mind having those ones fstty got. I like those
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
Yea me and mechanical are good buddies. Me and electrical arent so good. Im not afraid to try stuff, and i have a limited knowledge of some things and can do some stuff, but when it comes to resistors and stuff i still havent fingered that stuff out yet
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Originally Posted by dreem1er
lokee99 said those are the ones......
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, but if you were to order these I wouldn't want you to be dissapointed when you received something you didn't want.
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