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> LED lit gauges, North Hollywood vs bulbs
Grngoat
post Feb 1 2006, 12:35 AM
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Does anyone have any experience with the LED lighting that North Hollywood Speedometer does? Especially, how does it compare to just buying the LED bulbs that are avaliable as replacements?

The price that they charge to convert the gauges is quite a bit more than just buying the bulbs. I'm just wondering if they do that much better of a job or not.

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the LED bulbs dont spread light outward, so you'll see concentration of light right where the narrow beam hits the front of the guage (or guage edge) and a lesser degree of light outside of that narrow beam.

I have heard that the North Hollywood conversion is much more in-depth than just replacing the bulbs...I gather that they revise the lighting system in those guages.

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Grngoat   LED lit gauges   Feb 1 2006, 12:35 AM
bd1308   the LED bulbs dont spread light outward, so you...   Feb 1 2006, 06:42 AM
nein14   Not cheap, I called a while back. To do 3 914 gaug...   Feb 1 2006, 07:19 AM
ewdysar   When I talked to the NH Speedo guys, they said tha...   Feb 1 2006, 05:14 PM
lapuwali   Several people swear up and down LEDs are dimmable...   Feb 1 2006, 06:21 PM
GeorgeRud   NH does quite a conversion on the instruments. I ...   Feb 1 2006, 06:25 PM
North Bay 914   I bought those bulbs as well, off ebay. I took the...   Feb 1 2006, 09:28 PM
Grngoat   Yeah, $250 is what they quoted for all three ...   Feb 2 2006, 12:11 AM
davesprinkle     Feb 2 2006, 02:36 PM
lapuwali   The way I understood it, most LEDs have such a non...   Feb 2 2006, 03:22 PM
Dr Evil   I love the LEDs. I bought the blu for my car and m...   Feb 2 2006, 03:48 PM
Dr Evil   I got the LEDs that had the wider beam so I would ...   Feb 2 2006, 03:49 PM
nein14   were do you get the wide spread bulb in blue?   Feb 2 2006, 04:05 PM
Dr Evil   Kinda a long story, but I got mine from Qarl who l...   Feb 2 2006, 05:07 PM

 

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