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so....

04 gauges have LEDs lighting up the gauges. bewteen the actual gauge face and LED is a white plastic cover so it spreads the 4 LED lights per gauge face evenly all over the gauge face. question is, planning to filter out the white led for red by placing a red filter in between the white plastic cover and guage face, is the filter gonna melt????

thanks

 
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I've been wondering how that works. So the LEDs are white, and I guess a filter would work. It would be better probably to replace the white LEDs with bright red ones. Don't know how they're installed, though.

Anyway, to answer your question--LED lights don't really heat up at all. You can go buy a cheap one and some resistors and see if it gets hot. I doubt you'll even feel any heat.

 
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you should be able to use lighting gels, like what they use for stage lighting. those shouldn't melt from LEDs, seeing how the lights they're in front of are a lot hotter.

 
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Hey, great idea. If the LEDs actually get hot. You can get lots of stage gels from partsexpress.com