S7 EL Guages
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S7 EL Guages
i think my guages died... but it was wrking 2 days ago when i warmed up my car and it was 50deg.. it is now 21 deg outside and i went to warm up the car but the guages dont light up.. i wonder if its the cold that dont let em turn on.. and if not.. anyone know where i can get replacement parts or an alternative for lighting this **** up?
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Rep Power: 338 i think my guages died... but it was wrking 2 days ago when i warmed up my car and it was 50deg.. it is now 21 deg outside and i went to warm up the car but the guages dont light up.. i wonder if its the cold that dont let em turn on.. and if not.. anyone know where i can get replacement parts or an alternative for lighting this **** up?
to answer my own question ... yes its the cold that kills the indiglow.. i staid inside the car with the heat on until like it was 100 deg inside the car.. the turn the short lights on.. and there it was .... alive and well
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Rep Power: 325 those are the AC autotechnic right? if so, i have some other AC aauto gauges, and they stoppped the brightness of blue, so i run green. i hate em, but too lazy to remove. so i say go with some leds in the dash or get a different cluster. the 05 cluster is nice...but yeah. i think these just burn out after time... mine seemed too. i ran them bright!
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Rep Power: 338 those are the AC autotechnic right? if so, i have some other AC aauto gauges, and they stoppped the brightness of blue, so i run green. i hate em, but too lazy to remove. so i say go with some leds in the dash or get a different cluster. the 05 cluster is nice...but yeah. i think these just burn out after time... mine seemed too. i ran them bright!
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Rep Power: 811 mine used to work fine below zero. indiglo uses electricity to excite organic phosphor chemicals, so there is no way heat would affect the lighting. now maybe the inverter is just crappy and not putting out enough power or working properly. i wouldnt expect much quality from those gauges anyway. you can try a different inverter but idk, its just bad hardware.
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Rep Power: 338 mine used to work fine below zero. indiglo uses electricity to excite organic phosphor chemicals, so there is no way heat would affect the lighting. now maybe the inverter is just crappy and not putting out enough power or working properly. i wouldnt expect much quality from those gauges anyway. you can try a different inverter but idk, its just bad hardware.
wich ones do u recomend gear?? i kno u know alot about this type of stuff.. let me know
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Rep Power: 811 well they are all really sketchy, i had the full face ones and they lasted a year or two before i took em off, never had problems but the worst ones are the inverter with the crappy sliding switch. some of them have better inverters, i wanna say just buy a quality inverter and run em off that, cause the actual gauges dont really fail for a very long time, its almost always the inverter box. but its kinda tricky to rewire it to a new one.
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